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.”
Get more pure politics at ABC News.com/Politics and a lighter take on the news at OTUSNews.com
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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Paul was last on my list, Boehner is insufferable, but yes. That is how much I see the danger in Obama. He is unthinkable on the economy and as commander in chief. As bad as I think Paul would be a commander in chief, he is still better than Obama.
I’ll tell you a Ron Paul story and why he was last on my list. Here is my report from 4 1/2 years ago.
RON PAUL to DFU on Iowa radio - he would not stop ship with nuclear missiles from N. Korea to Iran
WHO RADIO in Des Moines ^ | 1-3-08 | dfu
Posted on Thursday, January 03, 2008 9:15:39 AM by doug from upland
For those who have doubts that Ron Paul would be an acceptable commander in chief, your doubts would have been absolutely confirmed if you listened to him this morning on WHO 1040 talk radio in Des Moines, Iowa.
He came on Jan Mickelson’s show at about 8:50am, Pacific Time. I was the second caller.
After complimenting him on his commitment to the Constitution, I asked a question about foreign policy. If any of you can pull the podcast, you can hear the conversation.
The question went something like this: Dr. Paul, if a shipment of nuclear tipped missiles was heading from North Korea to Iran, knowing the position of Ahmadinejad and the mullahs, would you stop that ship or sink it?
His answer was stunning. He very quickly answwered, “No, why would we do that?” After that question back to me, he commented that there was almost zero chance of that happening. He said that if he knew they planned to use them against us, he would take action. But they know they would be obliterated.
I wanted to challenge him further over Iran’s stated goal of destroying Israel, but I was apparently cut off by the host and couldn’t do it.
There you go, folks. Dr. Paul is an unthinkable commander in chief.
At this point, the only way to defeat Obama while ensuring that liberal Romney doesn’t get a blank cheque to subvert conservatism, is to put all of your time and money into electing conservative representatives and Senators. A conservative House and Senate can send legislation to Romney that he’s going to be hard pressed to veto. If Romney shows his true colours he can be deposed in 2016, but the immediate necessity is to remove the marxist currently in power. America cannot afford to wait four more years to begin reversing the damage. Four more years of “fundamental transformation” will ensure that America as we currently know it will not exist.
ditto
My, my, my.
My God, but it must be a series of unending horrors and humiliations, having to live out your sullen, miserable, mingy little excuse of a life being...
... well... being you, ultimately.
That, in and of itself, is the finest, sweetest draught of vengeance possible.
Now: post all the fetish-y, homoerotic Obama wank photos (from your limp-wristedly complete collection of same) you'd care to in response, little princess.
... and, yes: EVERYONE. SAW. It. (You shoulda seen the resulting cascade of FReepmails! ROTFLMAO!!!)
Kiss-kiss, clown shoes.
Know. Your. Place.
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