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Romney hires openly gay spokeman
American Vision News ^ | April 23, 2012 | Joel McDurmon

Posted on 04/24/2012 8:24:10 AM PDT by EternalVigilance

Provided courtesy of DefendtheNaturalFamily.com

americanvisionnews.com

Joel McDurmon

MetroWeekly.com is exposing the whole truth that Washington Post would not reveal:

Mitt Romney’s campaign tonight announced that it has hired Richard Grenell, an out gay former George W. Bush administration official, to serve as the presumptive Republican presidential nominee’s “national security and foreign policy spokesman,” according to a report from The Washington Post that did not mention Grenell’s sexual orientation.

Grenell served through September 2008 in the Bush administration as a spokesman to the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations — and told The Advocate‘s Kerry Eleveld as he left the administration that it was his hope that New York would have marriage equality soon and that he would one day be able to marry his partner, Matt Lashey. The couple has been together 10 years. . . .

Andrew Sullivan, who had endorsed Obama’s 2008 run, wrote of the news, “For Romney to have an openly gay spokesman is a real outreach to gay Republicans, a subtle signal to moderates, and the Santorum faction’s reaction will be worth noting.”

Grenell is not just gay, but a gay activist who pushes for same-sex marriages.

At the end of Grenell’s service in the Bush administration, he took a notable whack at the administration, telling The Advocate‘s Kerry Eleveld of his effort to have his partner, Matt Lashey, listed in the United Nations’ Blue Book, which is “a reference guide of contact information for different member states of the United Nations as well as diplomatic personnel and their spouses.”

Grenell had attempted to have Lashey’s name added several times, to no avail. He told The Advocate back in 2008, “What put me over the edge was a friend and colleague who met her spouse after I was already with my partner — they got married and subsequently were put into the Blue Book in a matter of days.”

The State Department eventually told him that the Defense of Marriage Act prevented the listing. Although he protested the decision behind the scenes, Lashey’s name was not ever added, which led to his coming forward to criticize the treatement publicly as he left his post.

HuffPost has noted that since the choice, Grenell has scrubbed his Twitter account and website of offensive material...

Read this story at americanvisionnews.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Politics/Elections
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To: EternalVigilance
Fitting, Romney wants Conservatives to take it in the...
181 posted on 04/24/2012 10:42:25 AM PDT by ejonesie22 (8/30/10, the day Truth won.)
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To: Elsie

Now I know where Dr. Suess got some of his inspiration!


182 posted on 04/24/2012 10:43:30 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going)
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To: EternalVigilance

You say that with a straight face?

You do realize that we have homosexuals who are vocal about their sexuality and are serving in the military.

Nothing is taboo anymore. The damage has already been done.


183 posted on 04/24/2012 10:43:30 AM PDT by Pan_Yans Wife ("For the sake of our party we must stand united, whoever our nominee is."-Sarah Palin)
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To: Elsie

You are late to the party...you want to converse? start at 10 and come up to speed rather than pile on with the mob mentality.


184 posted on 04/24/2012 10:43:40 AM PDT by Magnum44 (Terrorism is a disease, precise application of superior firepower is the cure)
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To: Lucky9teen
I mean, WWJD, after all, right?

"Go and sin no more." comes to my mind.

185 posted on 04/24/2012 10:46:18 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going)
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To: Magnum44
You are late to the party...you want to converse? start at 10 and come up to speed rather than pile on with the mob mentality.

I have been; while you've been taunting others.

It don't work with me.

I answered your 'question' you put forward earlier.

186 posted on 04/24/2012 10:48:00 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going)
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To: EternalVigilance

And not in the eye...


187 posted on 04/24/2012 10:49:41 AM PDT by ejonesie22 (8/30/10, the day Truth won.)
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To: Magnum44
If you want to flame me...

Strange thing to say for a person who wants OTHERS to explain themselves.

Can't defend your position?

188 posted on 04/24/2012 10:49:41 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going)
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To: Magnum44
If you are directing the question to me you have completely confused me.

Huh?

You made a couple of assertions; and I merely wanted you to explain them.

Now you are 'confused'?


What part of the CONSTITUTION is being disregarded?

What LAW is being broken?

189 posted on 04/24/2012 10:52:17 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going)
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To: Magnum44
I am currently being pummeled by folks who think that Romney will disregard the Constitution the way Obama has.

And you don't think that Romney will; right?

190 posted on 04/24/2012 10:53:18 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going)
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To: EternalVigilance

And where he sticks his pecker is relevant to national security because....? And the word ‘national security’ was mentioned in the news item how many times? Twice? Once? The 11th plague is terminal stupidity. It could be worse than the death of all first born.


191 posted on 04/24/2012 10:54:08 AM PDT by Eleutheria5 (End the occupation. Annex today.)
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To: Lucky9teen

You’ve said it quite well.


192 posted on 04/24/2012 10:55:20 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going)
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To: EternalVigilance

Anybody who thinks gay pride day at Fort Bragg will not be a reality is kidding themselves.


193 posted on 04/24/2012 10:55:49 AM PDT by MSF BU (n)
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To: Elsie

Jimbo traveled the state with my daughter last fall trying to find Democrats. He came here glad handing the crap out of us. Typical missionary style. Nice to know daughter was safe...dunno about her husband.

Now she is the campaign manager for Scott Howell the Dem candidate for Senator Hatch’s seat. And (sigh)she is going to the convention like a clapping seal.


194 posted on 04/24/2012 10:57:10 AM PDT by Utah Binger (Southern Utah where the world comes to see America)
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To: Magnum44; Elsie; Responsibility2nd; EternalVigilance; little jeremiah; trisham; metmom; ...
I am currently being pummeled by folks who think that Romney will disregard the Constitution the way Obama has.

Why would you possibly think otherwise?

Obamacare would have been IMPOSSIBLE without Romneycare and its $50 abortions.

Romney is the architect of American socialized medicine and the architect of same-sex "marriage" in America.

Face the facts, Romney delivered on the left's agenda in a way that no Democrat has EVER been able to. Myth Romney is the most successful leftist politician in American history, that means he WILL trample the Constitution.

195 posted on 04/24/2012 10:57:26 AM PDT by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
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To: wagglebee
Well just ping the whole list and call your mama while your at it.

I did not compare anything. I am getting personally attacked and name called and I oppose the homo-agenda. But I still dont agree with lynching of people in the form of discriminatory hiring based on that alone for for public jobs. The govt represents all of us and its not the place to be singling out anyone for favor or for discrimination based on their private lives, color, religion, or lack of religion. Private companies/institutions should be able to hire whomever they want. But govt cant discriminate. If they can discriminate against gays today, what keeps them from discriminating against you or me tomorrow?

The mob here is putting words in my mouth that are absolutely false. You can take that back to your hate sites.

196 posted on 04/24/2012 10:57:38 AM PDT by Magnum44 (Terrorism is a disease, precise application of superior firepower is the cure)
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To: chooseascreennamepat
Get over it. You idiots are driving me away.

Driving you away from what?

Maybe you should read the GOP platform; you will find that YOU are not supporting it.

197 posted on 04/24/2012 10:58:00 AM PDT by DBeers (†)
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To: Magnum44
I dont support gay rights, I support individual rights. I dont approve of gay lifestyle, but its up to God to judge, not me, and not the govt, so long as no one else’s rights are violated.

Typical Libertarian-polluted thinking. I'm sorry that you no longer recognize the difference between basic right and wrong, between true liberty and license.

198 posted on 04/24/2012 10:59:26 AM PDT by EternalVigilance ('A man with God is always in the majority.' -- John Knox)
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To: Elsie

Obama is going around the Constitution daily with executive orders, international agreements (without Senate consent), staring wars without asking congress, allowing the “deeming” of votes, Gunwalker, sueing states over states rights....need I go on?


199 posted on 04/24/2012 11:01:03 AM PDT by Magnum44 (Terrorism is a disease, precise application of superior firepower is the cure)
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To: Magnum44

Can’t wait to see freepdom throw palin under the bus when she comes out and endorses the GOP nominee at the convention.


200 posted on 04/24/2012 11:03:48 AM PDT by wtc911 (Amigo - you've been had.)
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