Posted on 08/18/2012 10:33:30 AM PDT by SoConPubbie
President Obama and Mitt Romney have found some new common ground -surprisingly – on an issue of gay rights.
Obama today joined Romney in publicly disagreeing with a controversial ban on gay members of the Boy Scouts of America, one of the nation’s largest and most well-known youth development groups.
“The president believes the Boy Scouts is a valuable organization that has helped educate and build character in American boys for more than a century. He also opposes discrimination in all forms, and as such opposes this policy that discriminates on basis of sexual orientation,” said White House spokesman Shin Inouye in a statement to the Washington Blade, a LGBT newspaper.
It’s the first time Obama, who was named honorary president of the Boy Scouts of America in 2009, has publicly taken a position on the issue.
Romney first voiced support for gay scouts back in 1994 — a position that his campaign spokeswoman Andrea Saul said remains his position today.
“I feel that all people should be allowed to participate in the Boy Scouts, regardless of their sexual orientation,” Romney said in the video from 1994 recently re-surfaced by the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation. He added at the time that he supports “the right of the Boy Scouts of America to decide what it wants to do on that issue.”
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Last month, the group affirmed its ban on openly gay scouts and leaders after a two-year review of the policy, prompting the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force to call on Obama to “reconsider” his honorary post.
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Join you in what? throwing away my vote and assuring that obama gets another 4 years. No thank you! I’m not gung ho on Romney by any means, but, I do think he will be an improvement over the usurper now in the WH. Good golly - Mickey Mouse would be an improvement.
Grown a spine? You know nothing about me. Why don’t you grow a spine and vote for one of the major candidates instead of wasting your vote - which will assure a victory for obama.
Your reasoning is flawed.
Right, and with Romney in, Obamacare will stay, and gay marriage will be on the agenda too.
Just like he did when he was in MA.
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“Sure, and they will appoint the same set of Supremes as positions came open in the next four years.”
Yes, thank goodness for Justice Roberts!
Good luck with Kang. :)
Look, I’m not a big fan of Mitt Romney. However, he can evolve - just as our “dear leader” did. I don’t pretend to know his innermost feelings or beliefs on certain subjects - other than what he did as governor of MA. Ronald Reagan was once liberal on issues as well, and he had a change.
I think there is hope that Romney can change - heck we know he can, but, its totally hopeless that obama will ever swing to the middle of the road or right on issues. It just isn’t going to happen.
There is much more at stake in this election than gay rights or marriage. Its very difficult to just pinpoint one thing and make an informed decision based on that.
The Mormons were the largest group to defeat gay marriage when it wss on the ballot in CA. They took a lot of heat from that. If Mitt is a devout Mormon, as he claims, then I would suspect that his beliefs are more in tune with the church as a whole. However, I have no evidence of that either. Just pure speculation on my part.
Our country is in a mess and spiraling downward at an alarming rate economically and our freedoms are being eroded every day of the week by this regime. Our national security is in jeopardy, there is corruption in every department of the government, and we need a change. I would have preferred a different candidate, but, this is who we are stuck with, and I will not give my vote to someone who hates this country and is destroying our religious freedoms.
I’ll let God deal with Mitt on his stance (if there is one) regarding gays. God loves the gay people, but, hates the sin. In the NT, the sin of homosexuality is lumped with adultery and fornication, and many of the members of the Corinthian church were former homosexuals. Paul addressed them as such. So, I believe there is hope for Mitt, but, zero with obama.
I also believe, other than whatever views Mitt holds about homosexuals, that he has deep moral convictions within him. I can’t say the same about obama.
I prefer to fight Romney. We know how to cripple Obama? Preposterous. He has PDDs, executive orders, and can order agencies to do anything he wants. He fights the Chicago way and believes he has the right to destroy this nation that has plundered the world. He loathes the Constitution and this nation. We have all seen what he is capable of doing.
If Romney does something I don’t like, I will be out in the street with other FReepers. If Obama does something I don’t like, he has the power to keep me out of the street. And he will. There is virtually nothing Obama will not do to advance his agenda. We have never seen anything like this in the history of the presidency.
I would rather fight Romney in power than Obama in power. No one from Obama’s party will fight him as he consolidates more and more power. Tea party pols and other good conservatives will fight Romney over those many issues with which we disagree.
That is the plan? Impeach Obama? Convict him with a 2/3 vote in the Senate? Unbelievable. Bill Clinton forever set the bar as low as it would go. No Democrat president will ever be impeached and convicted or forced to step down. Anyone making that move will be personally destroyed by Obama and his gang of thugs. That is what they do. They will encourage rioting in the streets. This man is like nothing this nation has ever before encountered. We have never had a a president influenced by the likes of Davis, Alinsky, his father, Wright, and Ayers.
The president elected in 2012 may be facing Iran that is dangerously close to nukes. I do not want that to be Obama, who has no problem with a nuclear Iran.
Naive beyond belief.
Romney, the jackass, could easily state it’s the Boy Scouts’ decision. But being the jackass he is, Romney coopts the homosexual agenda.
It’s a private organization, you liberal, statist jackwagon!
She works for him, it's up to him whether he keeps her. She said Romney's position remains the same, he's pro homo scouts and scout leaders. He hasn't denied what his spokes person said.
I heard the words from his mealy mouth when he said he was ok with homo adoptions, not that long ago either. Maybe he's changed that position too by now, hard to keep up with Romney's changing positions. And we called Kerry a flip flopper. Romney's got Kerry beat all to pieces in that department.
“We are losing our country to godless socialism and what does the GOP do? Run an abortionist/homosexualist statist whose socialist RomneyCare program was the blueprint and impetus for ObamaCare! Screw that!! I’ll vote for the GOP’s candidate for the presidency when they run a CONSERVATIVE!! Otherwise, to hell with them!! The GOP is fast cementing their place as part of the problem! Wake up America!!”
No I will not vote for an abortionist for president. Period. It’s no secret. I’ve been posting that I will not vote for Rudy/Romney abortionist for many years.
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>> That is the plan? Impeach Obama?
A delusional plan.
I’m voting for 3 Republican Houses. Romney will unfortunately benefit from that.
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