Posted on 08/07/2012 6:36:10 AM PDT by xzins
A spokesperson for Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has advised that the former Massachusetts governor disagrees with the Boy Scout’s current policy prohibiting open homosexuals from serving as members and leaders.
According to The Associated Press, Romney spokeswoman Andrea Saul told the news outlet in an email that Romney still stands by his beliefs that homosexual men should be able to serve in the organization. She specifically noted that Romney had outlined his views in 1994 during a political debate, and that his stance has not changed.
“I support the right of the Boy Scouts of America to decide what it wants to do on that issue,” Romney stated during the debate. “I feel that all people should be able to participate in the Boy Scouts regardless of their sexual orientation.”
As previously reported, last month, the Boy Scouts of America issued a statement reaffirming its policy prohibiting open homosexuals from joining the organization.
“The committee’s work and conclusion is that this policy reflects the beliefs and perspectives of the BSA’s members, thereby allowing Scouting to remain focused on its mission and the work it is doing to serve more youth,” the statement said. “The review included forthright and candid conversation and extensive research and evaluations — both from within Scouting and from outside of the organization.”
The decision to reiterate and reaffirm the Scout’s current policy followed two years of deliberations from an eleven-member committee comprised of Boy Scout executives and other volunteers who represented “a diversity of perspectives and opinions.”
When all was said and done, the committee concluded that the restriction served as “the best policy” for the Boy Scouts.
The current policy reads, “While the BSA does not proactively inquire about the sexual orientation of employees, volunteers, or members, we do not grant membership to individuals who are open or avowed homosexuals or who engage in behavior that would become a distraction to the mission of the BSA.”
Mitt Romney also recently reiterated his support for homosexual adoption. This past May, in an interview with Neil Cavuto of Fox News, he explained that while he is against the concept of homosexual “marriage,” he does believe that homosexual couples should be able to adopt children.
“[I]f two people of the same gender want to live together, want to have a loving relationship, or even to adopt a child, in my state, individuals of the same sex were able to adopt children. In my view, that’s something that people have a right to do,” Romney outlined. “But, to call that ‘marriage’ is something that in my view is a departure from the real meaning of that word.”
He had first outlined his position on the matter in 1996 while talking to CNN’s Wolf Blitzer.
“Well, they are able to adopt children,” he said. “I’m not going to change that.”
Prior to Saul serving as Romney’s press secretary, Richard Grenell, an open homosexual, filled the position.
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I don’t think so..I voted for Newt on May 29th in protest.
I believe Santorum got about 10 per cent.All but Perry were still on the ballot. Of course the Texas vote put Romney with enough delegates for the nomination.
I do believe if conservatives show up in November we have a chance to put some good conservatives in Congress.
I have great hope in Cruz.(Republican Senate nominee)
I agree with you 100%, Meg! Romney's values scare me - but not as much as Obama's hatred of our country!
It is a start though.
...there is are options including: bisexuality. Those people need to be kept away as well.
Agreed, but as we used to say among my politically incorrect Air Force buddies, once a guy _______(fill in the disgusting act here) - he is gay. It doesn't matter if a woman is in the room.
Mitt Romney has always supported homo activists in their war against the Boy Scouts.
Starting during the Clinton Administration (does the name Roberta Achtenberg ring a bell?) the Boy Scouts came under relentless fire by the Democrats and their newsrooms for rejecting the idea that they, the Boy Scouts of America, should welcome homosexual scout leaders into the organization and let them take little boys off into the woods. Boy Scouts leaders didn’t think this was such a good idea. Naturally, Massachusetts Mittens sided with the homo activists.
Below are a couple of columns from 10 and 12 years ago about the Boy Scouts being turned away by Mitt Romney and the Olympics Committee for volunteer work on the Salt Lake Olympics. The Boy Scouts had been very active and high profile at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics and were looking forward to participating once again. But the Boy Scouts had just won an important Supreme Court case (in June 2000 the Supreme Court ruled that the BSA was a private organization that could choose whoever they wanted as scout leaders and could therefore reject sodomites) and the Democrats/homos were still mighty ticked off about it. Massachusetts Mittens could always be counted on to pander to homo activists, of course, so he gladly came up with a lame lie of an excuse for turning the Boy Scouts away from the Salt Lake Olympics. The Boy Scouts’ disappointment was palpable, and Mitt Romney never returned their calls.
http://archive.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2000/12/15/214301.shtml
http://archive.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2002/2/7/135258.shtml
I think you may know the sad answer to that question.
“Romney’s values scare me - but not as much as Obama’s hatred of our country!”
Indeed..My adult children and their spouses and their adult children agree!
(My children led me to Free Republic long before I signed up. I had to relearn how to type. LOL)
My apologies to anyone that finds this offensive, but I, and many other conservative voters cannot in good conscience, vote ABO. We feel that we are
answerable to a higher power; a God who will live up to His promises, and punish those who support and encourage genocide against the unborn, abominable
sexual deviance, and the desecration of His young people.
For those FReepers who keep shouting that our country is doomed if conservatives do not fall in line behind the GOPe nominee, I’d like to quote Henry david
Thoreau: “The fate of the country... does not depend on what kind of paper you drop into the ballot-box once a year, but on what kind of man you drop from your
chamber into the street every morning.” This is my sentiment as well. I have traveled all over this great nation, and I can tell you from experience that those
of us “out in flyover country”, from southern Alabama and Texasto the open spaces of western Wyoming and the cold winters of the American midwest will, in
the face of the right provocation, defend our liberty even to the death.
We sat on the sidelines during World War II until we were attacked directly, and as history shows, our resolve was set. It may actually take a second Obama
term, and all of the disaster that implies, to re-energise the God-fearing conservatives of this country. Not to support the TEA party, or the “libertarians” or
any other faction of so-called conservative thought that attempts to divorce itself from “social conservatism” and natural morality.
I, and perhaps millions of others, simply won’t accept that death by slow poisoning is *in any way* superior to death by cannon-shot. If we all (Yes, you)
would follow Thoreau’s advice and put that truly American man on the street, each and every day; If we will brook no discussion of comprimise on basic
principles; If we will petition our government for redress of our grievances RELENTLESSLY, while settling for nothing less than redress; If we will live / walk /
vote with a solid moral foundation, secure in the knowledge that WE are not the final arbiters of what is right and that the principles of this nation’s founding
are as valid today as they were when they were first written down, then the republic will not fall. Even without Mitt Romney to guide us.
In the event that the sodomite, communist, thieving class does bring this nation to ruin, I (and perhaps millions of others) may be forced to resort to 170
grain votes in defense of our, and our children’s lives and liberty, and if this comes to pass, I will be humbly honored to die if necessary, to insure that the
light of individual liberty guided by God’s will, is not extinguished from this earth.
Please give this some consideration before you state how utterly hopeless it is to stand on principle, or how anyone who does not support Obama-lite in the
upcoming election is a traitor to *your* values.
HTS
So why didn’t he say that. Having never been governor (or held any other political office) I was able to understand the convoluted manner of communication. Thanks for translating...sorry I seemed simple to you!
Not my understanding and they are most often housed with a Christian Church.
Excellent catch, Lancey. What is it with Mitt and the gay agenda?
It is beyond weird.
“I support the right of the Boy Scouts of America to decide what it wants to do on that issue,” Romney stated during the debate. “I feel that all people should be able to participate in the Boy Scouts regardless of their sexual orientation.”
He did not say what Joe said. He also said the above:
I feel that all people should be able to participate in the Boy Scouts regardless of their sexual orientation.”
And he had his spokesperson come out the other day and say he still stands by that.
He did say that.
Another hit job.
Is it your position that Romney did not say these things and that he didn’t send his spokesperson out to say he stands by them as reported in this article by Christian News?
He then thinks it's OK to put homosexuals into contact with young boys.
Frankly, I think his personal belief on the matter DISQUALFIES HIM TOTALLY for consideration as President.
He then thinks it's OK to put homosexuals into contact with young boys.
Frankly, I think his personal belief on the matter DISQUALFIES HIM TOTALLY for consideration as President.
It is not my job to answer questions ~ it is rather to provide information of use and value.
The mystery is why the GOP establishment keeps wanting to lose.
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