Posted on 08/07/2012 6:36:10 AM PDT by xzins
A spokesperson for Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has advised that the former Massachusetts governor disagrees with the Boy Scout’s current policy prohibiting open homosexuals from serving as members and leaders.
According to The Associated Press, Romney spokeswoman Andrea Saul told the news outlet in an email that Romney still stands by his beliefs that homosexual men should be able to serve in the organization. She specifically noted that Romney had outlined his views in 1994 during a political debate, and that his stance has not changed.
“I support the right of the Boy Scouts of America to decide what it wants to do on that issue,” Romney stated during the debate. “I feel that all people should be able to participate in the Boy Scouts regardless of their sexual orientation.”
As previously reported, last month, the Boy Scouts of America issued a statement reaffirming its policy prohibiting open homosexuals from joining the organization.
“The committee’s work and conclusion is that this policy reflects the beliefs and perspectives of the BSA’s members, thereby allowing Scouting to remain focused on its mission and the work it is doing to serve more youth,” the statement said. “The review included forthright and candid conversation and extensive research and evaluations — both from within Scouting and from outside of the organization.”
The decision to reiterate and reaffirm the Scout’s current policy followed two years of deliberations from an eleven-member committee comprised of Boy Scout executives and other volunteers who represented “a diversity of perspectives and opinions.”
When all was said and done, the committee concluded that the restriction served as “the best policy” for the Boy Scouts.
The current policy reads, “While the BSA does not proactively inquire about the sexual orientation of employees, volunteers, or members, we do not grant membership to individuals who are open or avowed homosexuals or who engage in behavior that would become a distraction to the mission of the BSA.”
Mitt Romney also recently reiterated his support for homosexual adoption. This past May, in an interview with Neil Cavuto of Fox News, he explained that while he is against the concept of homosexual “marriage,” he does believe that homosexual couples should be able to adopt children.
“[I]f two people of the same gender want to live together, want to have a loving relationship, or even to adopt a child, in my state, individuals of the same sex were able to adopt children. In my view, that’s something that people have a right to do,” Romney outlined. “But, to call that ‘marriage’ is something that in my view is a departure from the real meaning of that word.”
He had first outlined his position on the matter in 1996 while talking to CNN’s Wolf Blitzer.
“Well, they are able to adopt children,” he said. “I’m not going to change that.”
Prior to Saul serving as Romney’s press secretary, Richard Grenell, an open homosexual, filled the position.
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It's not hard to understand -- he believes in the homosexual agenda. He has come out for gay adoption, gays in the military and gays in the Boy Scouts.
He promised to be more liberal on the issue than Ted Kennedy in Massachusetts. He has been more liberal on it than Obama in regard to the Boy Scouts.
He proposed the bill, then let it die on the vine, unsupported. Lipservice, entirely.
Here’s the post by you that began the conversation we’re having: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2915408/posts
The Zimbio posting is by you and the source for the Zimbio story is Perez Hilton. That Perez Hilton culled it from AP is obfuscation on your part.
Perez Hilton lit the match.
1010, I did not write the zimbio article.
It was by someone who rewrote(?) the hilton article, and the hilton article came from the AP article, and that came from the Romney spokesperson, and that came from Romney.
I posted the zimbio article as a thread on Free Republic, the same as I posted the Christian News article yesterday, also an article that I did not write.
The AP precedes in time all of the others, and Romney’s spokesperson precedes that article.
1010, I did not write the zimbio article.
It was by someone who rewrote(?) the hilton article, and the hilton article came from the AP article, and that came from the Romney spokesperson, and that came from Romney.
I posted the zimbio article as a thread on Free Republic, the same as I posted the Christian News article yesterday, also an article that I did not write.
The AP precedes in time all of the others, and Romney’s spokesperson precedes that article.
1010, I did not write the zimbio article.
It was by someone who rewrote(?) the hilton article, and the hilton article came from the AP article, and that came from the Romney spokesperson, and that came from Romney.
I posted the zimbio article as a thread on Free Republic, the same as I posted the Christian News article yesterday, also an article that I did not write.
The AP precedes in time all of the others, and Romney’s spokesperson precedes that article.
Realistically speaking, with an 80% Dem legislature, any Republican governor would be hard-pressed to accomplish much of anything.
The veto was the main weapon at his disposal, and he didn't hesitate to use it (though unfortunately a large number of his vetos were overturned).
Whether one thinks Romney is preferable to Obama or not, IMO it's important to consider the true facts and circumstances in order to place Romney's record in accurate context.
The facts remain that the AP story came out. It was as you admit overlooked. Perez Hilton revives it. You or someone going by the pseudonym Peach15 simply reposted the story Perez Hilton created out of the AP story.
I'd never heard of ZIMBIO - the ENTERTAINMENT STYLE LIVING website But, as a conservative I don't keep up with the latest trends.
A sampling of their articles:
Beach Volleyball: Who Looks Best in a Bikini?
Hollywood Bad Girls Gone Good - They Can Be Tamed
Lady Gaga Shares Intimate Photos of Boyfriend Taylor Kinney
This isn't a site I'm interested in at all. Xzin claims to be a retired military chaplain. Perhaps you're looking for wayward souls and that's how you ran into this story? Perhaps you've got a rebellious teen daughter? Maybe you're studying up terrorist threats to pop stars in Russia and stumbled into the site?
Madonna Faces Terrorist Threats in St. Petersburg
No matter what you're carrying water for the homosexual lobby and an Obama re-election.
So you've created a void. What will fill it? An Obama victory? Read Sun Tzu. A tactic once understood is no longer a tactic. You've pumped the meme. Goode will lose for certain. There will be no 3rd party in America. There will and can be a conservative resurgence in the GOP. To be a national party, though, you have to broaden the tent and then bring them round.
You're helping the most radical President America has ever had win a 2nd term and people here think that Chief Justice Roberts was playing a high game. You're game isn't just silly, it's dangerous.
Hi Manc! Check your freepmail
I’m an Obot? GTH! I’m perfectly fine hanging out at other sites where if you are an ABO voter you get called names. Go to hell and have a nice night and remember, the Kenyan thanks you and loves you.
I’m an Obot? GTH! I’m perfectly fine hanging out at other sites where if you are an ABO voter you DO NOT get called names. Go to hell and have a nice night and remember, the Kenyan thanks you and loves you.
I understand that .... BUT...... if the Marxist American hating Kenyan that wants to “fundamentally transform” this country, gets another 4 years, it will take us a generation, if ever, to get it back. Romney isn’t anti-American and he’s not sympathetic to Islam, I could go on and on... I don’t vote for him in the primary. I wanted Sarah, she chose not to run, I voted for Newt and I intend to vote ABO in November and that ABO that can beat Barry Soetoro seems like it will be Mitt Romney.
Blah blah blah and I’m still going to vote to kick the Kenyan out and whether we like it or not, Romney will be the nominee so he will get my vote. Every single person I know is going to vote for him. EVERY SINGLE ONE that is a Republican or Independent. Even some that are registered Democrats.
done and replied
Romney needs to get rid of these campaign advisors as it seems he takes their orders and they’re pushing their homo crap to him and then to us.
Romney had a great chance with CFA, then the boy scouts but instead he appeases men who ejoy fecal matter on their penis which then creates bateria and disease etc or women who wear strap on and pretend they’re a man.
He needs to spell this out to these NAZI like tactics and the homostapo that we do not base special right based on how they have their sex and it is about their sex not love as I love my dog, my kids etc but feel no need to marry them.
Romney had a great chance with CFA, then the boy scouts but instead he appeases men who enjoy fecal matter on their penis which then creates bacteria and disease etc or women who wear strap on and pretend they're a man.
He needs to spell this out to these NAZI like tactics and the homostapo that we do not base special right based on how they have their sex and it is about their sex not love as I love my dog, my kids etc but feel no need to marry them.
The fecal matter issue is certainly bad and disease ridden.
I’ve wondered, though, manc, about the body’s ability to fight foreign invaders by the creation of anti-bodies.
What happens when sperm invades the human blood stream due to such abusive treatment of the excretory system. Does that body for antibodies against “maleness”, against itself?
And what would that lead to?
And, Divine Scripture in Romans 1 says that men lying with men “receive in themselves” the due penalty for their behavior. IOW, the behavior is its own punishment in what it does “in them”.
Meh, narcissism much little jo? “I’m, I”. I’ll be sure to bow at your feet if/when Romney wins the nomination and then the election. It will have been all because of you and your cohorts.
You feel completely justified in tearing FR apart at the seams simply because you and your little band of schoolyard bullies think you can badger, bully and berate good people into compromising their values.
Especially since you and your little cabal don’t have the decency to treat others who disagree with respect or even basic courtesy. Petulant, frightened little children.
You do what you need to do in the “grand” election. Vote for Romney, but the behavior and comments from you and others like you on this forum are inexcusable.
SZ I wonder if he has harassed JR in the same manner for his principled stand against romney?
Interesting little hypocrite we have among us...brags about “hanging out” at other sites and then has the temerity to post these little nuggets about FReepers.
“I’m an Obot? GTH! I’m perfectly fine hanging out at other sites where if you are an ABO voter you DO NOT get called names. Go to hell and have a nice night and remember, the Kenyan thanks you and loves you.”
Notice that our little jo laments that the pro-Romney faction on FR gets called names, yet...
•Kooky? That... is an understatement... a HUGE understatement. I think that dude escaped from the nut house.
biggest lunatic
crazy you are
•You are a bigot, you have obsessive compulsive disorder, you are filled with hate and rage. I imagine you have no friends and everyone that knows you calls you the crazy kook.
I would be very afraid of you and probably report you as someone to keep an eye on.
you really do need some help
You are scary, really scary. I forwarded your posting history to several people and they were all just in shock. I was ashamed to even let them know I frequent this site.
Because I hope you realize MANY here are Obots and trolls who are given free reign to bash the GOP candidate.
I’m sure that is the goal of most of these DU Kos transplant GOP candidate bashers
Delusional people never fail to amaze me, however I would guess many of the people pushing ole Virgil are really Obots
The DNC, Axelrods, Kos, DU, they have all infiltrated FR
it’s not nice to confuse the Soetoro supporters with facts
There is not a doubt in mind FR is overrun by DU trolls and Soetoro supporters. They are beyond thrilled that they can now come here, bash Romney and support the Kenyan homo
You if obastard wins
I feel like FR is now DU
amongst all this pro-obama crowd
It’s become the Obama fan club lately
If these closet Obama voters
I’m laying low. Afraid if I say the wrong thing I will get the zot
so are the Obots. The obots are posing as Mitt haters
•These Romney haters need to come right out and admit they have been Obama lovers all along.
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Yep!
And all this is just from a few pages of posting history, there are many more where it’s in complete agreement with other despicable posts from other AB0 posters.
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