Posted on 08/08/2012 5:35:12 AM PDT by IbJensen
LAS VEGAS, August 7, 2012, (LifeSiteNews.com) – Mitt Romney’s decision not to condemn mayors threatening to deny Chick-fil-A the right to do business was a missed opportunity and may cost him votes in November, a growing chorus of social conservatives warn.
Last Friday in Las Vegas, when a reporter asked the Republican presidential nominee about the controversy over Chick-fil-A and charges about a diplomat’s ties to the Muslim Brotherhood, he replied, “Those are not things that are part of my campaign.”
After company president Dan Cathy said he supported Biblical marriage, homosexual organizations called for a boycott, and several prominent Democratic mayors threatened to withhold permits for the Christian business to operate in their cities. The fast food chain broke sales records during the August 1 “Chick-fil-A Appreciation Day” called by former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee.
Christian radio talk show host Bryan Fischer asked, “Well, governor, exactly what was not a part of your campaign? The part about natural marriage? The part about freedom of religion? The part about freedom of speech? The part about freedom of entrepreneurship? What? If you will not publicly stand for those values, what will you stand for?” These questions were echoed by talk show host Mark Levin.
“Social conservatives have to make up their mind whether they should just simply stay at home, or go out there and vote for Romney,” Bill Donohue, president of the Catholic League, said. “I’m astonished that he couldn’t even come to grips with the question. Leaving gays out of it, do we want the chief executives, the mayors of large cities trying to intimidate, using the power of government against private enterprises whose politics they disagree with? I think it’s a pretty simple issue.”
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Several conservative writers confessed to being flummoxed by Romney’s absence, calling it a “missed opportunity.”
“I don’t understand why Mitt Romney doesn’t just get his Secret Service detail and take his press corps down to a Chicken-fil-A and show solidarity with these people,” said columnist and former presidential candidate Pat Buchanan. “It’s instinct. Reagan would have walked right on down there naturally.”
To excite the party’s base, Richard Viguerie, a conservative activist for more than 50 years, has suggested the GOP invite Dan Cathy to address the Republican National Convention. “Republicans should oblige President Obama’s desire to make same-sex marriage a central issue in the November election, and campaign unequivocally as the party of the traditional values Dan Cathy stood for,” Viguerie wrote.
Even prominent members of the party’s neoconservative wing, which has little time for social issues and generally supports the homosexual lobby, encouraged Romney to stop at Chick-fil-A. “Didn’t happen,” wrote Bill Kristol.
Some supporters of same-sex “marriage” have defended the beleaguered chicken chain.
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, a social liberal who considered running against Romney as an independent presidential candidate, said “it’s inappropriate for a city government or a state government or the federal government to look at somebody’s political views and decide whether or not they can live in the city or operate a business in the city or work for somebody in the city.”
Congressman Barney Frank, who recently “married” his boyfriend, agreed, “I don’t think government should discriminate against Chick-fil-A because of the views of the owner.”/
Even Antoine Dodson, the flamboyantly homosexual subject of a viral video, has said, “A lot of people from the gay community was [sic] actually telling me not to eat at Chick-fil-A and then you know, I started having these flashbacks, because I started believing like, the gay community — we have went [sic] from being bullied to becoming bullies,” he said. “And I don’t think that that is fair, because I’m like, aren’t we like in America? Like, we have freedom of speech.”
“I don’t think it’s American,” he said.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2916695/posts?page=1
See the above thread.
It is all God.
Thanks for the ping, Sola Veritas. I will not be able to vote for Romney. A couple of weeks ago I was toying with the idea for a couple of days (after refusing to even consider the thought) just because 0kaka is a fiend in human form and means ruination and mass death and enslavement. But then when reading Romney wants sodomy practitioners in the BSA brought me back to my senses.
No way. I could never live with myself to vote for a him. He could easily be the Dem candidate. Easily.
I also have faith that whatever happens, whether it appears good or bad to human eyes, God is in control, and will bring about ultimate good from all this. All each of us tiny humans can do is cling to God and His truth and His merciful protection, and the results are up to Him, are in His hands. And even if I were to get killed - well, everyone has to to face death sooner or later, either on the battlefield, in prison, or lying in one’s own bed at home. At death, the only thing that matters is:
Was I faithful to You, Lord?
Nothing else matters.
But never though out history can that be done by working from the outside of the organization to effect change within.
Surely you jest.
So the American colonists just worked within the British system to achieve their goals. Gimme a break with such idiocy.
Amen to that Chaplain. God is entirely sovereign in all circumstances. Ultimately, when someone takes office, even the evil, it suits God’s purpose and will. God’s will in matters of His sovereignty are not always clear to us. Maybe by these horrid conditions we see ourselves in, and faced with no viable choice that could be within the “revealed” will of God as found in Scripture. (I.E. I think voting for Romney is covered by Galatians 1:6-9) then it may Him attempting to draw us to repentance. This country is in need of a “Great Awakening” like that which occured in the years before the American Revolution. God send us some Jonathan Edwards and George Whitfields.
Of course, God does not provide us with the opportunity to vote and to not exercise it. A favorite preacher of mine, is Charles Haddon Spurgeon who was a famous English Baptist. On March 22, 1857 he preached a sermon titled “Particular Election.” In that sermon he touched briefly on secular elections as follows:
“When Mr. Whitefield was once applied to use his influence at a general election, he returned answer to his lordship
who requested him that he knew very little about general elections but that if his lordship took his advice he would make his own particular “calling and election sure,” which was a very proper remark. I would not, however, say to any persons here present, despise the privilege which you have as citizens. Far be it from me to do it! When we become Christians, we do not leave off being Englishmen! When we become professors of religion, we do not cease to have the rights and privileges which citizenship has bestowed on us. Let us, whenever we shall have the opportunity of using the right of voting, use it as in the sight of Almighty God, knowing that for everything, we shall be brought into account and for that among the rest, seeing that we are entrusted with it. And let us remember that we are our own governors, to a great degree, and that if at the next election we should choose wrong governors, we shall have nobody to blame but ourselves,however wrongly they may afterwards act, unless we exercise all prudence and prayer to Almighty God to direct our hearts to a right choice in this matter. May God so help us and may the result be for His Glory, however unexpected that result may be to any of us!”
“Was I faithful to You, Lord? Nothing else matters.”
Thank you sister...as usual a timely and profound comment!
The GOP can go sit on a stick.
Large organizations change slowly by consistently pushing them in the direction you want them to go. As more are convinced to join things do change, organizations have inertia, and compromise sucks, but that is how the system is designed.
Yeah, well... I heard that bullcrap for nearly 30 years. What have they done for Conservatives? Bupkis. I resigned my membership in the GOP in 2007, and I will not be back. I am not obligated to play their game, where Conservatives always wind up sucking eggs... No more. Ever. I vote Conservative, and pay no attention to party at all. And since 60% of Conservatives now reside off the GOP plantation, I bet there are plenty out there like me.
Obama is a criminal who was never qualified to be President.
So what? I ain't voting for Obummer anyway.
Romney may be perceived as a liberal but he is an accomplished businessman, politician and administrator, and not a criminal.
Romney is not 'perceived' to be a liberal. Romney IS a liberal. A corporate socialist and globalist... Just like his daddy before him. He is a declared enemy of Reaganism. He lies through his teeth and flip-flops more than a pair of Tevas. His Massachusetts record is an abomination, and the only thing holding his 'values' together is Brylcreme and Dentu-Grip. I wouldn't vote for the POS if he was the last chance on earth. Quit polishing the turd. It ain't gonna happen.
Votes count, non votes do not.
I am voting - providing there is a Conservative to vote for on my ballot (and there will be). I do NOT vote for socialists.
oh for cryin out loud.... you are actually using the culture of over 200 years ago as a benchmark for your actions today ?
How did you turn on your computer ?
All I left to say... is that I’m glad you and your ilk are an insignificant minority. (even though I’m sure you think otherwise)
I think every vote against Obama counts - which is why I’m willing to try to talk, but you are way too gone, the libs did a good job on you.
“The GOP can go sit on a stick.”
“I heard that bullcrap for nearly 30 years”
Human nature hasn’t changed.
Except that general morality and character is worse.
I”m wondering if you are some kind of paid political entity.
Thank you for your kind words.
Life here is a testing ground, eternity is is the “real life”.
What is most disturbing is that these folks are so willing to throw away the principles that make us what we are - They seem completely oblivious to the notion that Conservatism isn't a political 'chip' to play, but rather that it is a way of living. Asking me to throw away Conservative principles for ANY reason is a grievous error - an insult of a very high order. To DEMAND I sacrifice principle on the altar of political expediency is far beyond the pale.
That ANY Christian would vote for this man is beyond me. That the principle of LIFE (not to mention marriage) can be so utterly destroyed without a whimper is astounding to me. But then, WE know that principles cannot be destroyed... That some would so easily cast them off is merely indicative of their character. The principle itself remains unmoved. Forever TRUE.
It does go to show how low in esteem they hold such things, and one can pity them for it.
ROTFLMAO!!! Yeah. I hear that from Republicans all the time. Funny part is that folks like you can forget so easily what happens when Conservatives DO turn out... When Conservatives exist in vast majorities in this nation, how is it that Republicans have such a hard time winning against the less than 30% of the country that claims liberalism? Why is it that 60% of Conservatives have left you?
I think every vote against Obama counts - which is why I’m willing to try to talk, but you are way too gone, the libs did a good job on you.
LOL! Riiiight.... You are here on a Conservative website hawking as liberal a candidate as the Republicans have ever offered up, and I'M the one the 'liberals have gotten to'... Can't you see how specious that comment is? YOU are the one telling me to throw aside every single conservative principle in order to vote for this guy, and yet you tell ME the liberals have gotten to me? It is a laugh-riot.
As I said up thread, I will wish upon you as well: Sooner or later you are gonna have to draw a hard line that you simply will not cross. I invite you to contemplate where that line is.
Have a nice day.
This is off topic (maybe). My mom (as all moms) would say clean your room. (whining of course happens)
Anyway, the first thing she would do is open the doors to our dressers, regardless of how clean the room appeared to be.
What she taught us was it didn't matter what people saw, it was the things people didn't see which showed our true character.
Her point was that if we could keep the drawers organized and clean it was like our being was of good character.
So there are some I talk/argue/whatever who appear to be fine people on the outside, yet I think "wonder what their dresser drawers look like".
Precisely correct.
“I”m wondering if you are some kind of paid political entity.”
I’m not an entity... but it sounds large and cool.
And I wish someone would pay me.
just a regular guy who wants has experienced too much government interference under this administration, and wants the economy to turn around in my lifetime.
Romer I’m glad I made you laugh.... the thread wasn’t a total waste..... it was pretty lively and you didn’t resort to name calling... thank you.
I hope someday your cause is plausible, but in my lifetime (based on history) I think the most that can be accomplished is a movement towards conservationism and its principles.
Hence the desire to rid ourselves of dems in office.
If the lib media can’t change our vote to dem then the next best defense they have is to push us so far right that we won’t vote against their guy.... you can see that alot.
Another thing you see alot are bloggers and talk show people fighting for an audience, and pandering to the right by becoming more extreme... it’s how they make money. They actually like dems in office - good for ratings.
Have a nice day as well.
Romney is different only in very small degree from 0kaka.
I want a revolt at the convention. The R establishment could not have found a more repulsive nominee than Romney.
How do you word process with no thumbs or frontal lobe?
He has a “funny” posting history.
I want a REVOLT at the convention.
If they forcefeed Romney down our gullets, and on top of it if he chooses a RINO (most probably will), he’ll lose.
Why does the (deleted bad word) GOP want to lose all the time? I hate and loathe and abhor the R establishment more than I hate and loathe and abhor Dems. If the ones supposed to be on “our” side are traitors, what recourse do we have?
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