Posted on 05/10/2012 6:38:57 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
Former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney (R) said Thursday that he believes gay couples should be allowed to adopt children, even as he reiterated his view that marriage is defined as a relationship between a man and a woman.
In an interview with Neil Cavuto of Fox Business Network, Romney was asked whether he believes the gay marriage debate is a new civil rights movement, as some Democrats have framed the issue.
“I don’t see it in that light,” Romney responded. “I believe my record as a person who has supported civil rights is strong and powerful. At the same time, I believe that marriage has been defined the same way for literally thousands of years by virtually every civilization in history and that marriage is by its definition a relationship between a man and woman.”
He added that “if two people of the same gender want to live together, want to have a loving relationship, even want to adopt a child — in my state, individuals of the same sex are able to adopt children. In my view, that’s something which people have the right to do, but to call that marriage is, in my view, a departure from the real meaning of the word.”
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The wait for newborns in the adoption is 6-10 years, depending on the state. The cost is around $20K. The demand side of the equation isn’t the problem.
Ignoramus.
Adopting a child is a privilege.
I was in a foster parenting class a few years back that had a couple {two women I'll call Butch and Dike} in the class. They bragged how their foster kids had lots of chores to do for them and at the end of the month they got a dollar.
Kids should not be force into gay social engineering experiments. Kids up for adoption or in foster care have been traumatized quite enough already. Romney seriously needs to pull his head out of his orifice on this issue.
So do we neutralize dems by packing the House and Senate and fluck the presidential election tab?
Careful greeny, you’ll attract the Mitbots who’ll break out their XL, bolded and underlined fonts, telling us how stupid and childish and selfish we are for not falling in line.
Romney is an idiot and I don’t really care which idiot wins. I tried to convince myself that I would be voting for good Supreme Court appointments, but now I think Romney wouldn’t appoint anybody who didn’t think the right for homosexuals to marry, or gay couples to destroy the lives of children they adopt is a constitutional right.
This guy may eventually beat Obama but it’s apparent that he’ll do everything in his ability to prevent that. What a freakin’ idiot!
This is exactly what they are angling for and to topple Church doctrine as well as to tear down the cornerstone of civilization, the traditional Family
We are so screwed!
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Just remember. This is WaPoo talking, here. I’m CERTAINLY no friend of Romney.....but I see what they’re trying to do. Trying to slough off the conservatives.
Obama is rallying his ‘base’ with the homo vote. The libtards are trying to kill off Mitt’s chances at rallying a conservative base.
I’m conservative as HELL.......but I will vote for a ROCK to get Obama out of office. Even if he DOES look and act like a game show host. Then, we can work on getting someone better!
JMO....as usual. :-)
Soetoro = Mittens = Liberal. This topic is just another distraction while the debt grows and the economy sucks.
What I want to know is how Obama plans to handle the “B” in the LGBT?
Polygamy?
Hey they cant decide, Kinda like Magic Johnson. “you wanna play Basketball or Baseball, Magic”?
‘Boff Coach’!
Maybe Mitt will shed some light on that subject!
Oh man are we screwed.
This is why Obama went public on this issue. He knows that Romney is just as liberal as he is and is feigning opposition to homosexual marriage to appease conservatives. When this issue comes up in debate, Romney’s lack of conviction and clear thinking will be apparent to everyone. This could be THE winning issue for Romney and the GOP and they’re going to gift wrap it for Obama and the Dems. Absolute morons.
I would say 99% of kids in foster care will never be allowed to be adopted because of the legal perverted agenda of reunification with highly abusive parent. The same great minds that keep kids in the system never allowing them to be adopted are the same losers calling for gay adoptions. There is no shortage of heterosexual parents wanting to adopt. Many must wait for over a decade. The inflated foster care rates only make it seem that there is a parent shortage. No gays do not need to be foster parents either.
. . . Mittens is snatching defeat from the jaws of victory . . . . To me, that position is utterly insane.
That’s a valid point.
WaPo nailed him with the 14 page “Smear the Queer story just hours after Obama became “America’s First Gay President”
No this is Mitt, the Severe Conservative, talking here. Did you not see the video? Please google it. Mitt said he supports gay adoption.
“If it decreases the infanticide of abortion, I would rather the child have a choice of this start than no start at all.”
You are right. Also adoption by any loving couple is better than an orphanage or the foster care system in most states.
Homosexuals are mentally ill sex perverts. They cannot be good parents. Many studies have shown that kids raised be homos have terrible problems, and higher rates of being sexually molested.
You are out of your mind.
I wonder how Mitt would feel if it was HIS grand children who were going to be adopted out to homosexuals? What if those homosexuals were of the flaming type and made it a point to indoctrinate Mitt’s descendants? Wouldn’t he, like any normal person, want his grand children raised in his religion by heterosexual, committed couples? I think so.
Pretty much.
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