Pro-Gay Romney Upsets Family Values Leader

Christian Post ^ | 12/30/2007 | Michelle Vu

[Ol' Sparky]

WASHINGTON – A prominent pro-family leader is urging fellow conservatives to withdraw their support for Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney over his recent expressed support for a “sexual orientation” non-discrimination law.

Romney during an interview with NBC’s “Meet the Press” said he supports the contentious Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA), which adds “sexual orientation” to a list of federally protected classes that prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin.

The bill upsets conservative leaders because it grants special protection to employees based on their “actual or perceived” sexual orientation. Moreover, it would force Christian organizations that oppose homosexuality to hire gay employees.

“Mitt Romney’s Christmas present to the homosexual lobby disqualifies him as a pro-family leader,” said Peter LaBarbera, longtime pro-family advocate and founder of the Republicans For Family Values website.

“Laws that treat homosexuality as a civil rights are being used to promote homosexual ‘marriage,’ same-sex adoption and pro-homosexuality indoctrination of schoolchildren,” he said. “These same laws pose a direct threat to the freedom of faith-minded citizens and organizations to act on their religious belief that homosexual behavior is wrong.”

The former Massachusetts governor responded on “Meet the Press” that ENDA “makes sense” at the state level. But LaBarbera warns that if Romney “openly” promotes homosexual agenda at the state level then he cannot be trusted at the federal level.

He pointed out that the state’s “sexual orientation” nondiscrimination law laid the groundwork for Massachusetts legalizing gay “marriage” – the first in the country to do so.

Moreover, the ENDA-like law forced Boston’s Catholic Charities to shut down its century-old adoption agency because it refused to place children in gay households against Catholic teaching.

“Given Romney’s extensive pro-homosexual record and willingness now to depart from principle on this crucial issue, should we trust a ‘President Romney’ not to reverse course again on federal pro-homosexual laws such as ‘Hate Crimes’ and ENDA?” LaBarbera posed.

In addition to the homosexuality agenda, pro-family leaders have also had reservations on Romney’s commitment to the abortion issue, which he only recently said he was against.

Well-known conservative leaders who have endorsed Romney include Paul Weyrich of the Free Congress Foundation; Lou Sheldon of the Traditional Values Coalition; Jay Sekulow of the American Center for Law & Justice; and Mark DeMoss of the PR agency DeMoss Pond.

“Now some pro-family leaders – who have raised millions of dollars over the years opposing ‘gay’ activism – will need to explain how they can go on supporting an openly pro-homosexual-agenda candidate,” LaBarbera said.

The federal ENDA bill is opposed by Christian heavyweights such as Tony Perkins of Family Research Council, Dr. Richard Land of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, Dr. James Dobson of Focus on the Family, Bishop Harry R. Jackson, Jr. of High Impact Leadership Coalition, Alan Sears of Alliance Defense Fund, the Rev. Rick Scarborough of Vision America, and Colin A. Hanna of Let Freedom Ring.

President George W. Bush has also indicated he intends to veto the bill if it makes it to his desk.

[landerwy]

Here is what it says as I tried the link and it did not take you there. You can click “H” on the link and then go to homosexuality.
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Homosexuality
“We believe that marriage between a man and a woman is ordained of God. We believe that marriage may be eternal through exercise of the power of the everlasting priesthood in the house of the Lord. “People inquire about our position on those who consider themselves so-called gays and lesbians. My response is that we love them as sons and daughters of God. They may have certain inclinations which are powerful and which may be difficult to control. Most people have inclinations of one kind or another at various times. If they do not act upon these inclinations, then they can go forward as do all other members of the Church. If they violate the law of chastity and the moral standards of the Church, then they are subject to the discipline of the Church, just as others are. “We want to help these people, to strengthen them, to assist them with their problems and to help them with their difficulties. But we cannot stand idle if they indulge in immoral activity, if they try to uphold and defend and live in a so-called same-sex marriage situation. To permit such would be to make light of the very serious and sacred foundation of God-sanctioned marriage and its very purpose, the rearing of families” (Gordon B. Hinckley, Ensign, Nov. 1998, 71).

[elfman2]

“Don’t be a coward, click on the link and see the truth. This is Governor Romney fighting to have the gay marriage issue put on the ballot.”

I’m having bandwidth trouble with that video, but wasn’t that a vote to block the state supreme court’s efforts to impose gay marriage? Didn’t it overwhelmingly end gay marriage?

[HereInTheHeartland]

” Mitt Romney believes gay people should be treated like everybody else:
No Foul Treatment
AND
No SPECIAL TREATMENT.”

Uh, sorry.
I reserve the right to not have flaming homosexuals teach my school age kids.
And if I run a restaurant I reserve the right to not hire flaming homosexuals.

[apocalypto]

Rudolph Giuliani is for gay marriage although he say no, he then qualifies this to basically mean yes. Maybe John McCain also. But I thought all the rest of the GOP were opposed.I don't know about Ron Paul.

[elfman2]

“So you fully support forcing religious institutions to hire homosexual people.”

Just because some wacko makes that claim on a web site mean it’s true. Currently under a similar law, Christian institutions would have to hire islamists, but the likelihood that they’d want to work there is near zero. The likelihood that militant gays would want to work for some Christian mission that demandes that everyone in their organization share their moral values is near zero too.

IMO, elizabetty’s right. The left is out for Romney because he’s a strong conservative, not a nut, and very electable. Now they’re trying to separate the right from him, and many are falling for it.

[elfman2]

“Uh, sorry.
I reserve the right to not have flaming homosexuals teach my school age kids.
And if I run a restaurant I reserve the right to not hire flaming homosexuals.”

Is that still legal in your state?

[elfman2]

Never mind, I found the answer. It’s apparently still legal to fire people just for being gay in most states: http://lesbianlife.about.com/od/lesbianactivism/f/Discrimination.htm

[Dr. Eckleburg]

This was a big mistake for Mitt.

[wastedpotential]

This law actually goes farther than the statement that they should just get treatment like everyone else.

[redgirlinabluestate]

Romney is the only electable top-tier candidate who supports the amendment in the GOP platform seeking to protecting marriage between one woman and one man. Supporting equal rights for all is not the same thing as supporting gay marriage or promoting a homosexual agenda.

Ann Coulter understands the difference:

I do want to point out one thing that has been driving me crazy with the media -- how they keep describing Mitt Romney's position as being pro-gays, and that's going to upset the right wingers. Well, you know, screw you! I'm not anti-gay. We're against gay marriage. I don't want gays to be discriminated against.

I don't know why all gays aren't Republican. I think we have the pro-gay positions, which is anti-crime and for tax cuts. Gays make a lot of money and they're victims of crime. No, they are! They should be with us. ~~ Ann Coulter

ANN COULTER from the Glenn Beck interview:
I think the Republicans, we have a choice between Rudy Giuliani and Romney, and with Giuliani struggling to get to the right of Hillary on the social issues, I certainly have a preference there.

Ann is absolutely right.

From an earlier Hannity & Colmes..... Ann threw her support to Mitt Romney for President:
http://republicans06.blogspot.com/2007/01/ann-coulter-supports-mitt-romney.html

[backwaterball]

A tiger doesn’t change its stripes. If he supports it at the state level he’ll support it on the federal level. Romney is no friend of conservatives.

[Radix]

"If we get a RINO (again) as the Repub nominee it will prove that there isn’t any difference between the parties."

I have not personally been able to distinguish a Republican from a Democrat for some while now.

They (the candidates) are almost all career politicians, and I pretty much despise them that are, for that fact alone.

[redgirlinabluestate]

Romney has so many rock-solid and bright people supporting him who know the truth and have evaluated his platform, his sincerity and his convictions up close and personal on this issue (and many others). These attempts to lie and distort his record are truly futile --- and look exceedingly more and more desperate.

One great example of someone who knows this issue and supports Mitt is Mary Ann Glendon. She was on Mitt's team before Pres. Bush chose her as his ambassador to the Vatican.

In 1994, Pope John Paul II appointed Glendon to the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences. In 2004, Glendon became the highest ranking female advisor to the Church when she was named president of the Academy.

Governor Mitt Romney On The Nomination Of Mary Ann Glendon

Boston, MA – Today, Governor Mitt Romney issued the following statement on the nomination of Mary Ann Glendon, the Harvard University Learned Hand Professor of Law and Co-Chair of the Romney for President Advisory Committee on the Constitution and the Courts, to be the next Ambassador to the Holy See:
"I commend the President for nominating such a distinguished American to be our next Ambassador to the Holy See. She will serve our country with the honor and dignity we expect from those who represent our country's values abroad. While I may have lost her trusted counsel to our campaign, our country has gained an extremely gifted Ambassador. I wish her the best as she prepares for her confirmation and service in the Vatican."

More info on this strong conservative supporter:

Glendon was a member of President Bush's Council on Bioethics, advising the president on moral and ethical issues related to technological developments in bioethics. She has frequently criticized radical feminism and defended the Church's position on life issues.

"The challenge of the church is to keep abreast of changes, but not dumb down its doctrine to the spirit of the age," she said in an earlier interview with the AP. "Contrary to popular stereotype, John Paul II has done a great deal to put women in many responsible positions."

In her capacity as a legal specialist in the field of bioethics, Glendon has been a leader in the Catholic opposition to same-sex "marriage," and has acted as an advisor to Governor Mitt Romney's presidential campaign.

[redgirlinabluestate]

THAT is a great video clip!

[humblegunner]

This is disgusting.
Shame on you people.

If you think this is disgusting, you should see what the homos do.

[apocalypto]

I did not know that. Those who are concerned about gays and gay marriage should go after Rudolph Giuliani. I believe he is the only one (other than Democrats such as Hillary Clinton) who has marched in gay parades.

[big'ol_freeper]

[big'ol_freeper]

[apocalypto]

Have a pic of Mitt Romney marching in a gay parade?

[big'ol_freeper]

Got any pictures of him marching in the March for Life?




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