What has the two-legged Republican stool been up to this week?
http://www.mittromney.com/News/Press-Releases/Romney_Agenda_10.15.07
To find out we first need to take a quick look at Mitt Romney circa
1994, running for Senate in Massachusetts.
Here's what he had to say back then:
http://www.365gay.com/Newscon06/12/121006romney.htm
Citing Kennedy's record of advocacy for gays and lesbians, Romney
wrote, "For some voters, it might be enough to simply match my
opponent's record in this area. But I believe we can and must do
better. If we are to achieve the goals we share, we must make equality
for gays and lesbians a mainstream concern."
Sounds good, right?
Okay, so here's how he decided to make equality for gays and lesbians
a mainstream concern last week:
http://www.pinknews.co.uk/news/articles/2005-5944.html
A candidate for the Republican party nomination for President of the
United States has said that he thinks a child would be better off with
a dead parent rather than a gay one.
Yup.
Mitt Romney, a former Governor of Massachusetts, was speaking at a
college in rural Iowa.
Asked what he would say to a gay couple wanting to get married, he
pointed out his support for a change to the US Constitution to bar gay
and lesbian Americans from marriage.
"I believe that maintaining the strength of the marriage relationship,
the family relationship, is critical to the strength of an entire
society," he said, according to Rocky Mountain News.
"And I believe that the development of children is enhanced by having
a male and a female as part of their upbringing in their home.
"Even when there's a divorce, you still have a mom and a dad."
Okay... we've all heard that line before from the hatemongers of the
religious right.
So come on Mitt, take it to the next level.
Drive that campaign bus right over the edge of the rhetorical cliff.
"And even where one member of the partnership may pass away, the
memory and the characteristics of that gender, of that partner
influence the development of a child."
Good gracious Mitt, it appears that you've turned from a reasonable
man into an ignorant, bigoted, pandering piece of *****!
I guess that's what happens when you run for president on the GOP
ticket.
By EarlG
Democratic Underground
http://www.democraticunderground.com/
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