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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: Magnum44
I have a problem with people who forget we are all sinners from birth and forget what the “mission” that Jesus set us out to do is...the most important commandment (both parts)

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I know exactly how you feel. People like that are just awful, aren't they? If only they were more like us.

321 posted on 04/24/2012 2:13:01 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: papertyger
Well heck! If you didn't admit it, I guess it means the charge can't be functionally correct!

Pretty much hard to say that I am a huge proponent of pushing a homosexual agenda when there is not a single shred of evidence that backs that up... Because I don't instantly condemn Romney and his new gay press guy into the fires of hell and eternal damnation doesn't mean am a proponent of all things gay. That's a hell of a logical leap.

322 posted on 04/24/2012 2:13:59 PM PDT by Wyatt's Torch (I can explain it to you. I can't understand it for you.)
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To: Magnum44
I have a problem with people who forget we are all sinners from birth and forget what the “mission” that Jesus set us out to do is...the most important commandment (both parts)

And FReepers, in general, have a problem with dissembling, duplicity, conflation, and subterfuge to call evil, good and good, evil.

323 posted on 04/24/2012 2:14:21 PM PDT by papertyger ("And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if..."))
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To: Wyatt's Torch
Because I don't instantly condemn Romney and his new gay press guy .....

Oh oh. Busted!

Water seeks it's own level.
Like minds attract.
Birds of a feather flock together.

Oh oh. You're gay, too, right?

324 posted on 04/24/2012 2:17:02 PM PDT by concerned about politics ("Get thee behind me, Liberal")
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To: itsahoot

Neither but thanks for your input. It’s exceedingly valuable............................................


325 posted on 04/24/2012 2:17:58 PM PDT by Wyatt's Torch (I can explain it to you. I can't understand it for you.)
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To: Wyatt's Torch
Pretty much hard to say that I am a huge proponent of pushing a homosexual agenda when there is not a single shred of evidence that backs that up...

You seem to be forgetting the prima facie evidence of your comments on this very thread.

You may be able to duck a court of law by pleading no positive evidence, but the court of opinion does not scruple at "assuming" the obvious.

326 posted on 04/24/2012 2:18:28 PM PDT by papertyger ("And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if..."))
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To: concerned about politics
Oh oh. Busted! Water seeks it's own level. Like minds attract. Birds of a feather flock together. Oh oh. You're gay, too, right?

LMAO! Because I don't condemn them to hell I'm gay? Wow....... Are you truly that stupid or do you have to work at it?

327 posted on 04/24/2012 2:19:39 PM PDT by Wyatt's Torch (I can explain it to you. I can't understand it for you.)
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To: papertyger

Whatever you need to tell yourself...


328 posted on 04/24/2012 2:20:58 PM PDT by Wyatt's Torch (I can explain it to you. I can't understand it for you.)
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To: trisham

No...more like you...you are clearly a better person than me.


329 posted on 04/24/2012 2:21:32 PM PDT by Magnum44 (Terrorism is a disease, precise application of superior firepower is the cure)
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To: Wyatt's Torch
Please show me exactly where I said I support anything related to the homosexual agenda... thanks in advance...

I never made such a claim ALTHOUGH, in my opinion, a case could be made that you are unwittingly assisting in the promotion of the homosexual agenda by endorsing Romney's hiring of an avowed homosexual sex practitioner and homosexual sex promoter. A hire that attains instant national notoriety, be on public display, and be granted an influential seat at the table.

Promoting the normalcy of homosexual sex is promoting the homosexual agenda AND that is what Romney is doing with this hire.

No if ands or buts about it -Romney is promoting the homosexual agenda right now JUST as he has in the past.

330 posted on 04/24/2012 2:22:06 PM PDT by DBeers (†)
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To: concerned about politics

when did American intellects get so stunted that they don’t recognize a confession of guilt as reason to make a judgement?


331 posted on 04/24/2012 2:23:28 PM PDT by papertyger ("And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if..."))
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To: Magnum44
I didn't say it. You'd better check your Bible.

Everyone is a sinner. Not all know that. The difference is repentant and unrepentant. Openly homosexual is flaunting sin. While God loves them, He cannot look on their sin and Believers are not to associate with them. Be kind, tell them the truth, but do not condone their sin.

332 posted on 04/24/2012 2:23:33 PM PDT by DJ MacWoW (America! The wolves are here! What will you do?)
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To: chooseascreennamepat; DannyTN
So you claim to read his mind or have special insights? So, just who is he going to nominate?

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. -- George Santayana

Romney has a history. Learn it. Remember it.

333 posted on 04/24/2012 2:24:10 PM PDT by P-Marlowe
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To: Wyatt's Torch

So when you get an answer that solidly confutes your position, it’s somehow a fulfillment of MY needs?

And you call others “stupid?”


334 posted on 04/24/2012 2:26:39 PM PDT by papertyger ("And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if..."))
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To: Magnum44

Well done! It’s not easy to fake sincerity, but you’re obviously a master.


335 posted on 04/24/2012 2:27:08 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: papertyger

Dont forget irrational accusation, lack of patience to actually read and understand a brief post or politely enquire as to its meaning or context, a propensity to label a different view point as coming from DU or a bot or troll, the gang up factor of pinging all your FRiends to join in the gang bang...

This is not directed at you, but if you actually followed this melee, then I neednt explain.


336 posted on 04/24/2012 2:28:59 PM PDT by Magnum44 (Terrorism is a disease, precise application of superior firepower is the cure)
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To: DBeers
I never made such a claim ALTHOUGH...

Of course you didn't. He's trying to muddy the waters of the debate by switching terms and assertions on you. That way he can escape into the rhetorical smoke screen.

Don't fall for it.

337 posted on 04/24/2012 2:30:24 PM PDT by papertyger ("And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if..."))
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To: trisham

Must have learned it from your last post


338 posted on 04/24/2012 2:30:41 PM PDT by Magnum44 (Terrorism is a disease, precise application of superior firepower is the cure)
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To: Magnum44
No need to be modest, you've already set the standard. Now, about the lesser posters on this thread. We can't let them distract us from the real issue here.

Judgmental, aren't they?

339 posted on 04/24/2012 2:39:36 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: Magnum44
You dont report suspicions...you have to report behavior.

Then they were not obvious were they? I would guess that you got away with to on your ship, on mine you would have likely went swimming.

340 posted on 04/24/2012 2:43:49 PM PDT by itsahoot (I will not vote for Romney period, and by election day you won't like him either.)
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