Posted on 06/03/2005 4:07:20 PM PDT by Knitting A Conundrum
The magic word
The question is whether Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney, a potential Republican candidate the White House ins 2008, has been "faking it" by posing as a "candidate" in Massachusetts, where the (mostly Catholic) electorate demands support for unrestricted legal abortion.
A former campaign consultant told National Review that Romney is "a pro-life Mormon faking it as a pro-choice friendly." Thanks, pal.
But Republican National Committee member Ron Kaufman, a stalwart Romney supporter, sees no fakery. Romney has been consistent, and kept his word, Kaufman told the Boston Globe. During the campaign Romney promised that he "wouldn't change one comma on the laws surrounding life," and he hasn't.
Wait a minute! Hold it right there! The laws surrounding life?!? Did Kaufman really use that word, in a discussion of abortion? Did the Globe really print it?
Hey, look; Romney's position on abortion is clear. He has not acted on the issue, nor will he act. He will say whatever is necessary to please the greatest number of voters. He isn't "faking" anything; his insincerity is genuine. That's not the point. The point is that a GOP strategist said, and the Globe reported, that the issue of abortion involves life.
Ping you might find interesting.
sometimes the truth slips out.
Hey, the Boston Glop also reported Romney is a closet supportor for embryonic stem cell research - claiming otherwise because of the religious yahoos in the Republican party.
Would the Glop lie?
Hatch annoyed me for years with his mealy mouth in D.C. always talking a very good game but never coming out to stand up to the Dems.
You guys don't get it...one of the most fundamental beliefs of the LDS Church is an individual's agency. Church members are taught doctrine until blue in the face, but ultimately it is an individual's righ to choose what to do and on Judgment Day there will be accountability for those choices.
Secondly, the LDS Church is very big on supporting the law of the land. For example, the Church is against war except when needed to defend home and family, but it never told members to dodge the draft in Viet Nam. Young men were told to obey the law and serve honorably.
Romney's position on abortion is no different. He is personally opposed to abortion, but, once again, it is the law of the land and individuals have the freedom to choose what to do. Furthermore, as governor he is hardly in any position to overturn Roe v. Wade.
Heck, if the people of MA, one of the most liberal states in the country, elected him as governor they must have liked him regardless of his religion.
In them I find myself sometimes baffled as to some clear answers as to the exact teachings on moral issues for which we were questioning, i.e. abortion and later embryonic research.
Everyone has a right to his or her views and yes, we all will face Judgment Day, Mormon or not, and all be held accountable for our actions. I certainly respect the citizens of each state to choose it's elected officials and consider their choice to be legitimate.
My complaint about Messrs. Hatch and Reid, but mostly Hatch, is that he is certainly entitled to his personal belief (in favor of it) but to be entitled to vote in favor of taxing everyone to pay for his choice, is morally repugnant not only to me but to millions of others.
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