GOP Moderation Lost the Election, Say Evangelicals

Pro-life/pro-marriage, religious liberty Christians attribute the Mitt Romney loss to a Republican campaign that lacked emphasis on social issues, making Romney a one-dimensional candidate easily demonized by Democrats (with no resulting positive appeal), as well as leaving many Americans unmotivated by the two choices, so they didn't vote.

130 million Americans cast votes in the 2008 presidential election, versus 124 million in 2012. President Obama received 5.5 million fewer votes in 2012, yet was reelected by a 4 million vote margin.

For background, read Who Says the Evangelical Message is to Blame for GOP Losses? and also read Christians Will Vote Against Abortion, Socialism as well as Ignore Abortion & Gay Agenda, Says GOP Establishment & Media

Plus read that Catholic Bishops Warn Voting for Democrats is 'Grave Sin'

-- From "Conservative Republicans fight back after Romney loss" by Paul Kane and Rosalind S. Helderman, Washington Post 11/19/12

“The [Republican] moderates have had their candidate in 2008 and they had their candidate in 2012. And they got crushed in both elections. Now they tell us we have to keep moderating. If we do that, will we win?” said Bob Vander Plaats, president of the Family Leader. Vander Plaats is an influential Christian conservative who opposed Romney in the Iowa caucuses 10 months ago and opposed Sen. John McCain’s candidacy four years ago.

. . . many top GOP officials have called for softening the party’s rhetoric on social issues, following the embarrassing showing by Senate candidates who were routed after publicly musing about denying abortion services to women who had been raped.

“It was the one time we actually contested ideas, presented two viewpoints and directions for the country,” [Sentor-elect Ted Cruz] said at the Federalist Society’s annual dinner in Washington. “And then, inevitably, there are these mandarins of politics, who give the voice: ‘Don’t show any contrasts. Don’t rock the boat.’ So by the third debate, I’m pretty certain Mitt Romney actually French-kissed Barack Obama.”

Rick Santorum, a former senator from Pennsylvania who finished second to Romney in the GOP primary . . . placed the blame on the national party, saying it lacked an appealing agenda: “We as a party, the party of Ronald Reagan and ‘Morning in America,’ failed to provide an agenda that shows we care.”

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From "Social conservatives say they deserve seat at table in retooled GOP" by Michael O'Brien, NBC News 11/21/12

. . . social conservatives are arguing that opposition to same-sex marriage and abortion rights, among other issues, are as intrinsic to the Republican Party’s identity as ever.

In their reading of the election, Mitt Romney’s strict focus on economic issues and a refusal to engage President Barack Obama on social issues helped fuel his loss to the Democratic incumbent.

To hear some conservative leaders tell their story, Romney erred in refusing to engage social issues forcefully enough. When the president endorsed same-sex marriage, Romney largely demurred; the GOP nominee largely left bread-and-butter social issues out of his stump speech, focusing almost exclusively on the economy — the top issue for voters.

[Sen. Marco Rubio said,] "There are a very significant number of Americans that feel very strongly about the issue of life, about the issue of marriage and are we saying that they should be silenced or not allowed to speak or voice their opinion?"

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From "Evangelicals to 'Country Club' GOPers: Social Issues Aren't Problem, You Are" by Paul Stanley, Christian Post Reporter 11/21/12

. . . Often referred to as "country-club" Republicans, they are mainly business types who care more about fiscal issues and try to avoid social issues at all costs.

Yet somehow the moderates look to their socially conscious brethren and blame them for the abortion gaffes of Senate candidates Rep. Todd Akin of Missouri and Indiana's Richard Mourdock.

Nonetheless, evangelicals are sending a strong warning shot over the GOP bow that if social issues are abandoned in the party platform and in stump speeches, millions of voters will look elsewhere.

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From "Caution to Republican Party: Drop Our Plank, Lose Our Vote" by Penny Young Nance, Concerned Women for America (Special to Christian Post) 11/14/12

The idea that Mitt Romney was somehow a radical on the life issue is almost funny. . . .

. . . Mitt Romney couldn't even bother to correct the president during the second debate when he falsely asserted that Planned Parenthood gave women mammograms. He had the perfect opportunity to pivot and discuss the skeletons in President Obama's closet on abortion. President Obama voted multiple times against the Born Alive Victims Act, which would have protected babies who are past viability and manage to be born despite abortionists' deadly efforts. He supports abortion for any reason, any number, at any point in pregnancy, and he wants all of us to be complicit with our tax dollars. Just this past spring, he worked hard against the Susan B. Anthony and Frederick Douglass Prenatal Nondiscrimination Act, a bill that would have prohibited sex-selection abortions. Yeah, he's pro-woman.

Millions, perhaps a billion dollars was spent on ads by Republicans. But none of them took on the sanctity of life issue. Instead, we all hammered on the economic issues, because that's what all the polls told us women and men cared about most. Turns out that's not completely true. . . .

But the fact remains that most Christians believe that life begins at conception. This issue is not going away. But as for Concerned Women PAC candidates go, they will get neither our endorsement nor help if they are not prepared to present a cogent argument for life.

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Also read Republicans Accepting Gay Agenda More and More

Questions that will never be answered: Given Mitt Romney's support for "gay rights," would a President Romney have protected religious liberty, and would a Vice President Paul Ryan have shown any social conservatism?

Obama NOT Antichrist, Poll Numbers too Low: Pastor

Robert Jeffress, senior pastor of First Baptist Church in Dallas, encouraged Christians to vote for Mitt Romney for president, a man whom he said is a leader of the religious cult of Mormonism, because Jeffress believes that President Obama "is paving the way for the future reign of the Antichrist."

UPDATE 2/8/13 - Catholic Bishops Slam Obama: Criminal in Eyes of God

For background, click headlines below:

Catholic Bishops Warn Voting for Democrats is 'Grave Sin'

Obama Makes New Promise to Fund Killing Babies

Lead Abortionist Joins Obama Full-time

Obamanation: Gay Agenda Carries in 4 More States

Obama a Christian? No, Say Two-Thirds of Americans

President Obama Denies Leading War Against Christianity

Religious Liberty & Anti-Christian Totalitarianism in America

-- From "Texas Mega-Church Pastor: Obama 'Paving the Way for the Future Reign of the Antichrist'" by Jackson Williams, Huffington Post 11/06/12

. . . just before President Obama's reelection day, Jeffress [said]:

"I want you to hear me tonight, I am not saying that President Obama is the Antichrist, I am not saying that at all. One reason I know he's not the Antichrist is the Antichrist is going to have much higher poll numbers when he comes. President Obama is not the Antichrist. But what I am saying is this: the course he is choosing to lead our nation is paving the way for the future reign of the Antichrist."

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From "Texas Megachurch Pastor Says Obama Will 'Pave Way' for Antichrist" by Michael Gryboski, Christian Post Reporter 11/8/12

Jeffress would go on to say that "it is time for Christians to stand up and to push back against this evil that is overtaking our nation" and to do so via "the ballot box."

This is not the first time that Jeffress has garnered controversy for his remarks regarding major political figures. During the Family Research Council's "Values Voters Summit" in October of last year, Jeffress called Mormonism a cult.

"Mitt Romney is a Mormon, and don't let anybody tell you otherwise. Even though he talks about Jesus as his Lord and savior, he is not a Christian. Mormonism is not Christianity. Mormonism is a cult," said Jeffress, who was supporting Texas Gov. Rick Perry's bid to become the GOP presidential nominee.

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Also read God's Conspiracy Theory per NBC's Rachel Maddow

Christians OK with Romney, Non-religious Prefer Obama

A new Pew Research poll found that 81% of all Americans have no problem with Mitt Romney being a Mormon, while the latest Gallup poll found that those Americans who claim no religion favor President Obama over Romney by a wide margin of 69% to 23%.

For background, read Obama, Dems Severely Lacking of Christian Support and also read Obama a Christian? No, Say Two-Thirds of Americans as well as Black Pastors Line up to Oppose Obama

UPDATE 12/9/12: 70% of 'religiously unaffiliated' reelected President Obama

-- From "Survey: Voters More Comfortable With Romney’s Faith, Doubt Obama" by Benjamin Fearnow, CBS News D.C. 9/4/12

Pew Research Center’s Forum on Religion & Public Life and the Pew Research Center [found that] . . . Fully eight-in-ten voters who know Romney is Mormon say they are either comfortable with his faith (60%) or that it doesn’t matter to them (21%).

Along religious lines, white evangelical Protestants and black Protestants, on the one hand, and atheists and agnostics on the other, are the most likely to say they are uncomfortable with Romney’s faith. But unease with Romney’s religion has little impact on voting preferences. Republicans and white evangelicals overwhelmingly back Romney irrespective of their views of his faith. Meanwhile, Democrats and seculars oppose him regardless of their impression.

A separate Pew Research survey, released July 24, found that voters have little interest in learning more about Romney’s religious beliefs.

On the other hand, scrutiny of Barack Obama’s religious faith has actually increased since 2008.

Forty-nine percent of voters surveyed said they think Obama is a Christian – which is down from 55 percent in 2008, but actually up from 38 percent in August 2010.

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From "Gallup: Obama Enjoys Massive Lead Among Those With No Religion" by Terence P. Jeffrey, CNSNews.com 9/6/12

In the three-week period that ended on Sept. 3, according to Gallup, Obama led Romney 69 percent to 23 percent among those who have no religion. That was exactly the same result Gallup got in the previous three-week period ending Aug. 26.

In the three week period ending May 6, Obama led Romney 63 percent to 27 percent among registered voters with no religion.

Romney leads Obama in other religious categories that Gallup tracks. He leads Obama 47 percent to 45 percent among registered votes who say they are Catholic, 54 percent to 39 percent among those who say they are Protestant or Christian, 58 percent to 35 percent among those who say they are “highly religious” and 47 percent to 45 percent among those who say they are “moderately religious.”

Among registered voters who say they are “nonreligious,” Obama holds a 62 percent to 31 percent lead—not quite as large as his 69 percent to 23 percent lead among those who say they have no religion.

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VP: Paul Ryan a Faux Closeted Social Conservative?

Mitt Romney's V.P. pick of Wisconsin Congressman Paul Ryan has yet to bring much clarity regarding the social conservative credentials of the Republican ticket for the White House. While history shows that Romney's positions on abortion, homosexuality, and Christianity are anything but clear, Ryan rarely speaks to these issues, and his campaign websites are mute as well. Yes, it's a fact that Ryan's voting record is scored as 100% pro-life, and also demonstrates support for traditional marriage, but he voted FOR the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA), the cornerstone of the Gay Agenda.

The Obama campaign is painting Ryan as an extreme social conservative, yet the Romney campaign remains silent. Why?

For background, read Ignore Abortion & Gay Agenda, Says GOP Establishment & Media and also read Republicans Accepting Gay Agenda More and More as well as Christian Liberty at Risk with a President Romney?



UPDATE 9/25/12: Paul Ryan Says He's Now Okay With Gays in the Military

UPDATE 4/11/13: Speaking of Illinois pro-abortion congressman Robert Dold, Paul Ryan told a pro-life audience, "Dold was an ally of our cause. We need to work with others like him."

UPDATE 5/2/13: Rep. Paul Ryan Now Backs Adoption of Children by Homosexuals

-- From "Gay Rights Advocates Divided On Paul Ryan Pick" by Lila Shapiro, Huffington Post 8/14/12

. . . Paul Ryan has not spoken about his position on gay rights. But the Log Cabin Republicans, one of just two conservative gay rights groups in the country, has pointed to him as a model for how to reach gay voters. . . . [Ryan's] 2007 vote in favor of the Employment Nondiscrimination Act (ENDA) a law that would make it illegal for employers to discriminate based on sexual orientation.

Back in the 1990s, Romney supported ENDA as well. In a letter to the Log Cabin Republicans he pledged to co-sponsor the legislation at the federal level, but in 2006, he said he had reversed his position on the bill.

The Log Cabin Republicans have not yet endorsed Romney for president. Many gay Republicans have wavered in their support for Romney, partly because he signed a pledge opposing same sex marriage. But Ryan's vote for ENDA has made some of them more excited about the presumptive Republican presidential nominee.

Ryan's congressional office directed questions about ENDA to Romney's campaign, and Romney's campaign did not respond to multiple requests for comment.

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From "As Ryan Looks to Focus on Economy, Spotlight Shines on His Other Views" by Robert Pear, New York Times 8/12/12

Though best known as an architect of conservative fiscal policy, Representative Paul D. Ryan has also been an ardent, unwavering foe of abortion rights, has tried to cut off federal money for family planning, has opposed same-sex marriage and has championed the rights of gun owners.

Despite those positions, Mr. Ryan, who was picked over the weekend to be Mitt Romney’s vice-presidential running mate, has said he wants to focus on the nation’s looming debt crisis, not on social issues, in the coming campaign.

Democrats, hoping to win a large majority of female voters in November, assailed Mr. Ryan’s record on abortion rights and women’s health on Sunday.

Like most Republicans, Mr. Ryan has strenuously opposed the new health care law championed by President Obama. He has criticized Mr. Obama’s efforts to guarantee free insurance coverage of contraceptives for women, including those employed by Roman Catholic hospitals, universities and social service agencies.

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From "Ryan’s abortion stance could widen gender gap in swing states" by Sam Baker, The Hill 8/15/12

Abortion-rights supporters — including the Obama campaign — have aggressively attacked Ryan’s (R-Wis.) stance on abortion and other women’s-health issues . . .

“Ryan is certainly easier to pin down than Romney,” [pro-abortion] EMILY’s List spokeswoman Jess McIntosh said.

The battle for female voters this year goes well beyond abortion. Democrats have tried to anchor the debate around two other issues: access to contraception and funding for Planned Parenthood.

Planned Parenthood Action Fund also jumped on Ryan’s selection, quickly turning around a Web video accusing the Budget Committee chairman of trying to roll back the clock on women’s health.

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Also read how the Christian Tea Party affects this election

Teavangelicals Continue to Shock Mainstream Media

Although the mainstream media has reported the documentation that the Tea Party phenomenon was, from the start, a Christian movement of evangelicals and Catholics, each time the mainstream media report this conclusion, the reporters inevitably appear shocked of the facts -- no doubt because each report is buried away from popular view.

For background, read Proved: Tea Party Movement is Christian and also read Tea Party Fights: GOP War on Christianity as well as Registering Millions of Christians to Vote

The media and GOP establishment prefer to disregard some issues that are important to Teavangelicals, and don't even understand why a President Mitt Romney worries the Teavangelicals.

For sure, Teavangelicals Will Vote Against Abortion, Socialism



UPDATE 7/15/12: Are Teavangelicals ready to embrace Romney? (video):



-- From "5 Reasons ‘Teavangelicals’ matter" by Eric Marrapodi, CNN Belief Blog Co-Editor 6/27/12

It’s a match made in political heaven - evangelical Christians and the Tea Party. Starting in 2010, the two huge conservative flanks started coming together, forming what Christian Broadcasting Network Chief Political correspondent David Brody calls the "Teavangelical" movement.

Sure, the Tea Party was supposed to be all about money matters, its name an acronym for "taxed enough already." The conventional wisdom was that the group didn’t care much about social issues like gay marriage and abortion – those were the province of evangelicals.

But it turns out that the two groups overlap – a lot. That was one of the takeways from a Wednesday National Press Club panel I sat on that was tied the release of Brody’s new book, “The Teavangelicals: The Inside Story of How the Evangelicals and the Tea Party are Taking Back America.”

The Tea Party may have disappeared from national headlines, but they’re active at the grassroots. Brody said that Teavangelicals are winning seats on school boards, city councils, and county commissions.

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From "Brody: 'Teavangelicals' Care about Social, Fiscal Issues" posted at Christian Broadcasting Network 6/28/12

Teavangelicals care about social issues, but Brody said the mainstream media often fails to report that they're also concerned about fiscal issues.

"They see it all through a biblical worldview as it relates to returning to fiscal responsibility," he said at the Press Club Wednesday.

"They go to Proverbs and they talk about how a good person leaves an inheritance for their children's children," Brody continued. "They talk about how the borrower is a slave to the lender. I can go on and on with Bible verses, but the point is that is exactly how they see the world."

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From "'The Teavangelicals' and the 2012 presidential election" Sean Hannity interviews David Brody, FOXNews.com 7/2/12

SEAN HANNITY, HOST: How does this [impact] the 2012 presidential race?

DAVID BRODY, "TEAVANGELICALS" AUTHOR: Mitt Romney obviously needs the "Teavangelicals" in a big way to show up. . . . He's got to take a play out of Rick Santorum's playbook, combine fiscal issues, social issues, the declaration of independence, weaving it all in to this Judeo-Christian nation that we have here. If he can really talk about that, I think he's able to get a lot more "Teavangelicals" to the polls.

HANNITY: For any conservative, any Tea Party member, I just don't see who else they could possibly vote for in this election.

BRODY: Yes, but it not so much who they're going to vote for. . . . but will they bring a friend and organize? The "Teavangelicals" are the worker bees out there, you know that.

HANNITY: This is like the old Christian coalition?

BRODY: Very much so, but it's morphed into a much different venue if you will. This is what we talk about in the book.

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From "Dems push hot-button social issues in campaign attack ads" by Shannon Bream, FoxNews.com 7/10/12

[Mitt Romney] very rarely addressed the culture wars.

This campaign season, it seems that Democrats are the ones pushing the social issues hot buttons. In addition to his proclamation in favor of same-sex marriage, the President's campaign is now also running attack ads on the subject of abortion. In the ads from both the Obama campaign and Planned Parenthood's Action Fund, Romney is accused of favoring a complete ban on abortion in all circumstances.

He actually supports exceptions in the case of rape, incest and when the life of the mother is threatened.

The Romney campaign has termed the ads "viciously negative and false" -- and nothing more than an attempt to divert attention from "disastrous" economic news. But the ads do contain quotes from Romney himself, vowing to cut off funding for Planned Parenthood. The candidate apparently stands by that pledge.

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Also read Teavangelicals' Rally for Religious Freedom Ignored by Mainstream Media

Christians Will Vote Against Abortion, Socialism

The same super-energized Christian Americans who turned the tide in the November 2010 elections nationwide, are gearing up for a repeat in 2012, by voting against liberal/socialistic themes favoring abortion, homosexuality, and big government, anti-family "nanny state" solutions.

For background, read Pastor Encourages Flock to Stand Against Socialism and also read Proved: Tea Party Movement is Christian as well as Obama, Dems Severely Lacking of Christian Support

Pastor Charles Stanley warns Christians of tide of socialism in America (2010 video):

For Part 2 of the above video, CLICK HERE -- for Part 3, CLICK HERE.

-- From "Brad Pitt's mother blasts Obama, same-sex marriage" by Lauren Moraski, CBS News 7/6/12

Jane Pitt wrote her letter [to the editor] in response to another piece, titled "Vote for Mormon against beliefs," which expressed support for Christians who don't vote for Romney because of his Mormon beliefs.

She began by stating that she's a Christian, who differs with the Mormon religion.

"But I think any Christian should spend much time in prayer before refusing to vote for a family man with high morals, business experience, who is against abortion, and shares Christian conviction concerning homosexuality just because he is a Mormon," she wrote in the letter titled "Election-Casting ballot deserves prayerful consideration."

"Any Christian who does not vote or writes in a name is casting a vote for Romney's opponent, Barack Hussein Obama - a man who sat in Jeremiah Wright's church for years, did not hold a public ceremony to mark the National Day of Prayer, and is a liberal who supports the killing of unborn babies and same-sex marriage," Pitt continued.

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Is America a Christian Nation? (2009 video):


From "Brad Pitt’s Mom: "Obama Supports Killing Unborn Babies'" by Andrew Bair, LifeNews.com 7/6/12

Those in the mainstream media and on the Left have panned the letter. . . .

Jane Pitt stands right in line with the majority of Americans, despite attempts by abortion advocates to characterize her as an extremist. . . .

It is unfortunate that both Brad Pitt and his fiancée actress Angelina Jolie are not pro-life on abortion. The couple has six children, a large family especially by Hollywood standards. Three of the Jolie-Pitt children are biological while three were adopted. Both Pitt and Jolie have been adoption advocates for years, even in the face of criticism in Hollywood.

Jane Pitt’s letter underscores the importance of every pro-life advocate taking action in the 2012 elections. After last week’s Supreme Court decision upholding the pro-abortion Obama healthcare law, this can’t be stated enough.

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Also read Prayer in America: Hidden Faith, or Public?

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Boy Scouts Hold Rules on Gays, Liberals Outraged, Again

A lesbian leading a Cub Scout pack in Ohio, breaking the rule against homosexual leaders, has recently been dismissed from the Boy Scouts of America. In 2000, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the prerogative of the Boy Scouts to restrict its leadership/membership as such, but now homosexualists, backed by Hollywood and various liberals, have launched a P.R. campaign to ruin the organization, even using Mitt Romney's own statements in their favor.

UPDATE 7/28/15 — Demise of Boy Scouts: Male Homosexual Leaders OKd

For background, read Republicans Accepting Gay Agenda More and More and also read Homosexualists Cost Philadelphia $860,000 to Boy Scouts

UPDATE 7/17/12: Boy Scouts reaffirms traditional male/female rules after 2-year review

UPDATE 6/7/12: Boy Scouts tells homosexualists the organization won't change its standards

UPDATE 6/26/12: Obama creating pro-gay Boy Scouts?



UPDATE 5/1/12: Pro-homosexual, Democrat Scout Board Member Resigns

-- From "Boy Scouts dismisses lesbian den leader" by UPI 4/26/12

Jennifer Tyrell, a 32-year-old Bridgeport mother of four, withdrew her 7-year-old son from the Boy Scouts of America when she was recently dismissed after serving as leader of his Cub pack for several months.

Tyrell is working with Change.org, a liberal political group, on a campaign to raise awareness about the Boy Scouts' policy toward gays and lesbians. She said she gathered 140,000 signatures and said she hopes to push the organization to accept gay leaders and scouts.

The organization said it respects people's right to a different opinion.

"Scouting will continue to teach our members to treat everyone with courtesy and respect," the [BSA] statement said.

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From "Lesbian Cub Scout Leader Ousted in Ohio; Homosexual Activists Promise Another Fight" by John Seewer, Associated Press 4/26/12

. . . Tyrrell traveled to New York from her home in Bridgeport, Ohio, to build momentum for a petition to overturn what she says are Ohio Boy Scout's anti-gay policies . . .

The Boy Scouts of America, whose oath calls for members to be "morally straight," maintains that as a private organization it has the right to exclude gays and atheists from its ranks.

That stance was upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court in 2000 but has led many state and local governments to deny support for the Scouts.

The organization said it believes Scouting is not the right place for youngsters to be exposed to issues of sexual orientation.

Because of the policy, Tyrrell said she only reluctantly allowed her 7-year-old son to join up in Bridgeport, where she lives with her partner and their four children. Told, she said, by the local cub master that it didn't matter that she is a lesbian, she was drafted to lead the pack in September.

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From "Hollywood stars support lesbian den mother ousted from Boy Scouts" by Nancy Dillon, New York Daily News 4/23/12

Jennifer Tyrrell has collected more than 126,000 signatures for a petition on Change.org that urges the Boy Scouts of America to end their policy banning gay youth and den leaders.

“Hunger Games” star Josh Hutcherson along with TV stars Jesse Tyler Ferguson from ABC’s hit sitcom “Modern Family” and Max Adler from Fox’s “Glee” all signed the petition and lent their support at the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defemation’s Media Awards Saturday night, an event spokesman confirmed.

“I feel as though I’m right in this, and I feel one day they’ll realize that,” Tyrrell told the Daily News Monday.

“Hopefully, with the amount of signatures we’ve collected in less than a week, we’ll send a huge statement to the Boy Scouts of America — that people are ready for a change.”

To read the entire article above, CLICK HERE.

Wisconsin Tea Party Fights: GOP War on Christianity

Since the inception of the Tea Party movement, while emphasizing government fiscal responsibility, these Christians have agreed that faith IS the moral basis of America, yet the Republican establishment and the elite media insist that the electorate simply stop talking about religion with politics.

". . . in politics, what matters is perceptions. And many [Christian] people really do perceive they're under assault."

For background, read Republicans Accepting Gay Agenda More and More and also read Proved: Tea Party Movement is Christian as well as Obama Feeds Catholics 'A Bunch of Bull,' Says Santorum

-- From "Republicans rally against 'war on religious freedom'" by Mira Oberman (AFP) posted at Google News 4/1/12

The nation's simmering culture wars have been re-ignited by the Republican nomination battle to take on President Barack Obama in the November 6 election as the White House hopefuls vye to win over the party's conservative base.

Rick Santorum -- a devout Catholic who stridently opposes abortion and gay marriage -- has mobilized the conservative base with his fiery rhetoric, winning 11 out of the past 34 nominating contests.

"The lights of freedom may well go out if we don't win this election," the former Pennsylvania senator said, urging [Wisconsin] supporters to pick a true conservative over frontrunner Mitt Romney.

The first amendment -- which prohibits the "establishment of religion" -- was written because the founders were concerned that government would interfere with religious practices, [a Wisconsin voter] insisted.

[However, a] focus on divisive social issues also threatens to undermine Republican chances in November by alienating moderates and independents key to winning the elections.

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From "In Wisconsin, Santorum Tells Conservatives Not to Give In" by Jeremy W. Peters, New York Times 3/31/12

“People will say, ‘How can you go on?’” Mr. Santorum said, dismissing his skeptics. “One of the campaigns for president a week or so ago suggested that it would take an act of God for Rick Santorum to win the Republican nomination,” he said. “I don’t know about you, but I believe in acts of God.”

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From "Candidates' Religious Appeals May be Losing Sway with Voters" by Dave Nyczepir, Capital News Service 3/31/12

Approximately 38 percent of Americans feel there has been too much expression of religious faith and prayer from political leaders this election, according to a Pew Research Center study released earlier this month.

Thirty percent said there has been too little and 25 percent the right amount, but the percentage of those saying there has been too much has increased to an all-time high across party lines, says the report.

[Liberal pundits are] particularly concerned with Newt Gingrich's insinuation that there is a war on religion, and Rick Santorum's assurances [as liberals say, that] he'll translate his beliefs into public policy, as well as the fear of Muslims [the pundits say] the two candidates have perpetuated throughout the GOP presidential race.

"One of the reasons I'm running, is there has been an increasingly aggressive war against religion, and in particular Christianity, in this country -- largely by a secular elite and the academic news media and judicial areas," Gingrich said. "And I frankly believe it's important to have some leadership that stands up and says, 'Enough, we are truly guaranteed the right of religious freedom, not religious suppression from the state.'"

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From "GOP should heed God-talk backlash" by William McKenzie, an editorial columnist for The Dallas Morning News 3/31/12

Churches, as well as synagogues, fueled the civil rights movement with the defining idea that all of humanity has dignity in the eyes of God.

But there is a backlash to the mixing of religion and politics that those of us who believe they are inevitably linked should take seriously. Republican leaders and their reliable core of white evangelical voters particularly should examine the negative response.

New polling data from the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life shows voters are wearying of religion being so prominent in American politics. That view is true first among Democrats, second among independents and third among Republicans. But, among all three groups, the percentage that says they are tired of all the talk about religion is increasing.

Republicans are most associated with matters of faith, according to the survey. Fifty-four percent of respondents saw Republicans as friendly toward religion while 35 percent viewed Democrats that way.

To read the entire opinion column above, CLICK HERE.

From "Religion to launch theses?" by Michael Gerson, Republican Columnist of the Washington Post 3/30/12

By every measure, the quality of evangelical social engagement has been in recent decline.

Candidates such as Michele Bachmann and Rick Perry have practiced a kind of identity politics, urging evangelicals to support one of their own. Then they reduced the evangelical tradition to a pathetic caricature, defined by support for school prayer or (in Bachmann’s case) conspiratorial opposition to vaccines. Their view of Christian social ethics is strangely identical to the most uncompromising anti-government ideology — involving the systematic subordination of a rich tradition of social justice to a narrow and predictable political agenda. It is difficult to imagine Bachmann or Perry in the same political universe as evangelical abolitionists and social reformers William Wilberforce and Lord Shaftesbury.

The problem is not, as some have alleged, a secret theocratic plot. It is the regression of evangelical politicians — and politicians appealing to evangelicals — to the worst habits of the religious right circa 1980. They jostle to claim a divine calling. They appear in the pulpit with pastors who talk ignorantly of America as a “Christian nation.” Some, when they lose, hint darkly of anti-religious persecution. This is the behavior of Jerry Falwell on a bad day. Americans are right to find it discrediting.

The [Pew] poll found GOP voters who believe there is too much religion in politics are far more likely to support Romney.

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From "More See 'Too Much' Religious Talk by Politicians - Santorum Voters Disagree" by Pew Research Center’s Forum on Religion & Public Life 3/21/12

Slightly more than half of the public (54%) says that churches should keep out of politics, compared with 40% who say religious institutions should express their views on social and political matters. This is the third consecutive poll conducted over the past four years in which more people have said churches and other houses of worship should keep out of politics than said they should express their views on social and political topics. By contrast, between 1996 and 2006 the balance of opinion on this question consistently tilted in the opposite direction.

[This year,] 60% of GOP voters who support Rick Santorum say that churches and other houses of worship should express their views on social and political questions.

And while 55% of Santorum’s supporters say there is too little expression of religious faith and prayer by political leaders, just 24% of Romney’s backers agree, while 33% say there is too much expression of faith and prayer by politicians.

The number of Republicans expressing unease with the amount of politicians’ religious talk also has increased (from 8% in 2001 to 24% currently). But Republicans have consistently been less inclined than either Democrats or independents to say there has been too much religious talk from political leaders.

However, there has been no change in opinions among white evangelical Protestants, who remain far less likely than those in other religious groups to say that politicians express religious faith too much.

The percentage of white Catholics who say the [Obama] administration is unfriendly to religion has nearly doubled – from 17% to 31% – since 2009. Three years ago, far more white Catholics said the administration was friendly (35%) than unfriendly to religion (17%); today, nearly as many say the administration is unfriendly (31%) as friendly (38%).

To read the entire Pew study above, CLICK HERE.

Also read Illinois Christian Tea Party Counters Establishment GOP

Republicans Accepting Gay Agenda More and More

As the GOP establishment crowns Mitt Romney for president, increasing numbers of pragmatic Republican career politicians have decided that their job security requires surrendering the Culture War to the homosexualists.

UPDATE 5/1/12: Mitt Romney's openly-homosexual foreign policy spokesman resigns just days after he was first appointed by Romney

For background, click headlines below:

Ignore Abortion & Gay Agenda, Says GOP Establishment & Media

Romney Wins Big with Florida Homosexual Republicans

Santorum Explains Gay Agenda Effect on Children

Christian Liberty at Risk with a President Romney?

This 2010 question relevant again: Will GOP Call 'Truce' in Culture War?

Proved: Tea Party Movement is Christian

Pope: Gay Agenda & Abortion Dooms Society

-- From "Republicans retreat on gay marriage" by Jake Sherman and Anna Palmer, Politico 3/30/12

It’s been one of the swiftest shifts in ideology and strategy for Republicans, as they’ve come nearly full circle on same-sex politics. What was once a front-and-center issue for rank-and-file Republicans — the subject of many hotly worded House and Senate floor speeches — is virtually a dead issue, as Republicans in Congress don’t care to have gay marriage litigated in the Capitol.

Even more than that, Republican leadership has evolved, too. It has quietly worked behind the scenes to kill amendments that reaffirm opposition to same-sex unions, several sources told POLITICO.

But there’s also a political strategy at work: Ask most House Republicans today if they have deep convictions about gay relationships, and it hardly registers.

National party operatives have taken notice. Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus, National Republican Senatorial Committee Chairman John Cornyn and National Republican Congressional Committee Chairman Pete Sessions all did fundraisers in the 2010 cycle with the national gay and lesbian GOP grass-roots organization, Log Cabin Republicans.

To read the entire article above, CLICK HERE.

From "Romney: 'The Gay Community Needs More Support from the Republican Party’" by CNSNews.com Staff 3/23/12

When Mitt Romney first entered the political scene in 1994, running for the U.S. Senate against Teddy Kennedy, he told an LGBT-focused publication in Massachusetts that he would be a more effective advocate for the interests of the “gay community” than Kennedy had been and that gays should support him because “the gay community needs more support from the Republican Party.”

“There's something to be said for having a Republican who supports civil rights in this broader context, including sexual orientation,” said Romney. “When Ted Kennedy speaks on gay rights, he's seen as an extremist. When Mitt Romney speaks on gay rights, he's seen as a centrist and a moderate. It's a little like if Eugene McCarthy was arguing in favor of recognizing China, people would have called him a nut. But when Richard Nixon does it, it becomes reasonable. When Ted says it, it's extreme; when I say it, it's mainstream.”

To read the entire article above, CLICK HERE.

From "Don’t Retreat, Re-aim" by Michael Tanner, a senior fellow at the Cato Institute, posted at National Review Online 3/14/12

Less than a year and a half after Republicans swept to the biggest midterm congressional landslide since Grover Cleveland’s second term, they are struggling against a president presiding over a struggling economy, rising gas prices, and an approval rating in the low 40s. Prospects for a Senate takeover, once a foregone conclusion, are now are tenuous. Even the newly won House majority is in jeopardy.

What has changed?

The 2010 Republican victories, and the tea-party movement that drove them, were based on a few critical issues: the crushing burden of our national debt; opposition to wasteful government spending, including bailouts and the stimulus; and a desire for limited constitutional government. It stood in opposition to the big-government nostrums of both the George W. Bush and Barack Obama administrations.

. . . only 38 percent [of those polled in February 2012] thought social issues such as abortion or gay marriage were important in this election. Even among Republicans, fewer than half were motivated by social issues.

To read the entire opinion column above, CLICK HERE.

From "Gay Marriage Effort Attracts a Novel Group of Donors" by Adam Nagourney and Brooks Barnes, New York Times 3/23/12

. . . [There's a] behind-the-scenes fund-raising network whose goal is to legalize same-sex marriage from coast to coast. This emerging group of donors is not quite like any other fund-raising network that has supported gay-related issues over the past 40 years. They come from Hollywood, yes, but also from Wall Street and Washington and the corporate world; there are Republicans as well as Democrats; and perhaps most strikingly, longtime gay organizers said, there has been an influx of contributions from straight donors unlike anything they have seen before.

The Republican support for the effort largely began after Mr. Olson, a solicitor general under President George W. Bush, lent it his name. It accelerated with the fund-raising role of Ken Mehlman, the former chairman of the Republican National Committee and of Mr. Bush’s re-election campaign, who announced he is gay 18 months ago and has since helped raise close to $3 million by fishing in waters where gay organizers had rarely gone before.

As surprising — and encouraging — to organizers of the movement are the Wall Street names added to their roster. Prominent among them is Paul Singer, a hedge fund manager who is straight and chairman of the conservative Manhattan Institute. He has donated more than $8 million to various same-sex marriage efforts, in states including California, Maine, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York and Oregon, much of it since 2007

To read the entire article above, CLICK HERE.

UPDATE 4/12/12: Big money donors up ante on Romney's Gay Agenda position

Also read Gay Lobby Purchases Same-sex 'Marriage'

IL Christian Tea Party Counters Establishment GOP

As the Illinois Republican primary election approaches (March 20th), virtually every major Republican officeholder in the state has endorsed Mitt Romney for president, yet polls show most voters will choose either Rick Santorum or Newt Gingrich over Romney.

The battle of the Illinois conservative grass roots vs. the Illinois GOP rages on!

For background, read Proved: Tea Party Movement is Christian and also read Tea Party Nationwide Campaign Against Illinois Liberal Republican Senator Mark Kirk

-- From "All eyes on Illinois after Santorum wins in Alabama, Mississippi" by Abdon M. Pallasch, Political Reporter, Chicago Sun-Times 3/13/12

“All eyes are going to turn to Illinois,” said Santorum’s Illinois Chairman, former state Rep. Al Salvi. “I think in Mississippi and Alabama, the exit polls showed women came out for Rick Santorum. I think he’s the beneficiary of President Obama’s big mistake in mandating that private employers pay for birth control.”

Much of Illinois’ Republican establishment has signed on to front-runner Mitt Romney’s campaign. Sen. Mark Kirk, state Treasurer Dan Rutherford and state GOP Chairman Patrick Brady are all on board.

In roughly half the states so far in primaries or caucuses, the conservative wing of the Republican Party is defying the establishment and opting for Santorum’s more-conservative-on-social-issues message.

Santorum noted he had “all the establishment” against him in Mississippi and won anyway.

To read the entire article above, CLICK HERE.

From "Suburbs are prime battleground for GOP presidential primary" by Kerry Lester, Daily Herald 3/4/12

Republican Congressman Aaron Schock of Peoria, an early Romney backer, reiterated the campaign's focus on the economy.

Romney will be looking for independent, swing votes in the suburbs, especially among women, who may disagree with the conservative social policies of Santorum.

Santorum's Illinois political director, Jon Zahm, formerly of Batavia, said he expects the campaign to do well in towns on the Missouri and Iowa borders, but he also sees the suburbs as a stronghold. . . . He describes the campaign as “bottom up” with a grass-roots focus and the help of Tea Party groups and anti-abortion groups.

The Gingrich campaign says much of its support lies in suburban Tea Party groups, but concedes those numbers can be hard to gauge.

To read the entire article above, CLICK HERE.

From "Romney, Santorum Continue Long-Running IL Republican Battle over Social Issues" by Political Editor Mike Flannery, FOX Chicago News 3/12/12

“If we allow abortion to define a good Republican from a bad Republican, we will be the party of the perpetual minority,” Dan Rutherford said. “If we allow positions in regard to gay rights and in regards to guns to define good from bad, we will be the party of the perpetual minority.”

The executive director of Santorum's Illinois campaign said he could not disagree more strongly.

“I think it would be a dereliction of duty to not stand on those core principles. You know, and as for traditional marriage, I think that's the backbone of society. You know, if we had only gay marriage, we wouldn't be able to further have children,” Illinois Santorum Campaign’s Jon Zahm said. “I'm afraid that for every person that the treasurer [Rutherford] tries to reach out for that doesn't believe in those values, we may lose somebody who believes in those core principles. So I think that's the wrong approach.”

Rutherford's argument was that Illinois Republicans should focus on last year's 67 percent increase in the state income tax on individuals, instead of social issues. Santorum supporters said they're all for clobbering the Democrats who enacted that big tax increase, in addition to stressing the social issues that they point out are part of the Republican platform at the state and national level.

To read the entire article above, CLICK HERE.

From "Evangelical voters prefer Romney’s rivals" by Katrina Trinko, National Review 3/13/12

. . . On average, there is a 19-point difference between Romney’s support among non-evangelicals and his support among evangelicals in Republican primaries, according to ABC News’s survey of primary states with exit- or entrance-polling data available.

Bob Vander Plaats, a prominent social-conservative activist in Iowa and head of the Family Leader, also highlights Romney’s record in Massachusetts. “We hear today that’s he pro-life, but we also hear that when he was governor he put in $50 co-pay abortions in the state,” he says. “We hear today that God’s design for marriage [is] one man, one woman, yet he basically presided over same-sex marriage in the state.”

“There’s a trust gap,” Vander Plaats adds. “I think a lot of us conservatives feel that he will morph into who you want him to be depending on which campaign he’s in.”

Gary Bauer, president of American Values . . . agrees that some may be concerned that Romney’s position switches aren’t authentic. However, he argues that the larger problem Romney faces is that even voters who are willing to believe he has sincerely changed his views are wary of his willingness to passionately fight on those issues. Evangelicals, Bauer observes, are doubtful that values issues “would play much of a role in the expenditure of political capital or energy in his administration.”

There are signs, too, that evangelicals aren’t so much opposed to a Romney presidency as they simply prefer his rivals.

To read the entire article above, CLICK HERE.

Also read Illinois primary pits leaders vs. Tea Party (GOP Reps. Adam Kinzinger and Don Manzullo face off)

Romney Accused of Abortion Lies by Mainstream Media

Slate Magazine (with the Washington Post) has published a well-documented "hit piece" on Mitt Romney's alleged changing story of his pro-choice/pro-life conversion(s). It's odd for the mainstream (liberal) media to take the side of pro-life critics of Romney, but perhaps a weakened Mitt Romney and/or triumphant Rick Santorum is their desired outcome.

For background, read Romney Dismisses Pro-life Pledge and also read Romney & Abortion: Liberals Attack From Both Sides as well as Christian Liberty at Risk with a President Romney? plus read Romney Wins Big with Florida Homosexual Republicans

UPDATE 5/15/12: Romney Says It's OK to ‘Destroy’ Human Embryos Created Through In Vitro Fertilization

-- From "The Conversion" by William Saletan, Slate 2/22/12

To understand Mitt Romney, you have to understand the most difficult passage of his political life: how he changed his position on abortion. Not the story he tells about it, but the real story.

Romney began his political career as a pro-choicer. In the story he tells, he had an epiphany, a flash of insight, and committed himself thereafter to protecting life. But that isn’t what happened. The real story of Romney’s conversion—a series of tentative, equivocal, and confused shifts, accompanied by a constant rewriting of his past—paints a more accurate picture of who he is. Romney has complex views and a talent for framing them either way, depending on his audience. He values truth, so he makes sure there’s an element of it in everything he says. He can’t stand to break his promises, so he reinterprets them.

Parts of the story have been told before. But no one has put it together. And no one has assembled the many video and audio clips that bear witness to what happened. In this article, the first complete examination of Romney’s journey, you’ll see his transformation on camera.

The problem with Romney isn’t that he keeps changing his mind. The problem is that he keeps changing his story.

To read the entire article, CLICK HERE -- see the Slate story in the video below:

Romney Wins Big with Fla. Homosexual Republicans

Mitt Romney is far and away the favorite GOP presidential candidate among Americans who support sexually deviant behavior.

“I don’t believe in discriminating in employment or opportunity for gay individuals. So I favor gay rights.”
-- Mitt Romney told Nashua Telegraph 11/22/11

For background, read Christian Liberty at Risk with a President Romney?

UPDATE 5/15/12: Romney says same-sex couples ‘have the right’ to adopt children

-- From "Mitt Romney wins big in straw vote Saturday at Log Cabin Republicans' Florida caucus in Miami" by Steve Rothaus, Miami Herald Staff 1/28/12

Log Cabin Republicans overwhelmingly chose Gov. Mitt Romney as their favorite GOP presidential candidate in a Florida straw vote on Saturday at City Hall the Restaurant, 2004 Biscayne Blvd. in Miami.

The straw vote came following Log Cabin's national board meeting in Miami.

To read the entire article above, CLICK HERE.

From "Fla. Log Cabin members tilt toward Romney" by Lou Chibbaro Jr., Washington Blade 1/29/12

Officials from the group’s Florida chapters said the outcome was consistent with anecdotal information they’ve received from club members and gay and lesbian Republicans across the state – that a majority of Florida’s LGBT Republicans, including those who initially backed former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman and Texas Congressman Ron Paul, have shifted their support to Romney.

Shortly after Log Cabin’s cocktail caucus adjourned on Saturday evening, the Miami Herald, El Nuevo Herald, and the Tampa Bay Times released the findings of a joint poll that showed a large majority of the state’s Republican voters were in agreement with the Log Cabin members.

[R. Clarke Cooper, president of the national Log Cabin Republicans organization, said,] “Romney has said doing a [one-man/one-woman marriage] constitutional amendment is not realistic and that’s not something that’s going to happen.”

To read the entire article above, CLICK HERE.

Top Presidential Candidates Affirm Marriage

In this weekend's pair of GOP presidential debates, other than Mitt Romney, each of the contenders with a shot at the nomination made clear that they will NOT continue President Obama's advancement of the Gay Agenda. In contrast, Mitt Romney reinforced his desire to advance "gay rights" in every manner other than a redefinition of marriage.

For background, read Christian Liberty at Risk with a President Romney? and also read Santorum Explains Gay Agenda Effect on Children as well as Presidential Candidates: Abortion & Marriage Top Issues

-- From "GOP debate: Romney, Santorum grilled on gay rights" by Kim Geiger, Los Angeles Times 1/8/12

Mitt Romney was reminded Sunday morning on the NBC/Facebook debate stage of a pledge he made in 1984, that he would “be a voice in the Republican Party to foster anti-discimination efforts” in the gay community.

Asked how he had fulfilled that pledge, Romney said that as governor of Massachusets, he had a gay cabinet member and appointed judges regardless of their sexual orientation.

That didn't satisfy WHDH-TV Boston's Andy Hiller, a political reporter who had raised the question at the debate.

“When's the last time that you stood up and spoke out for increasing gay rights?” Hiller asked.

Romney was done with the topic. “Right now,” he said.

To read the entire article above, CLICK HERE.

From "GOP debate: No love for gay marriage" by Josh Lederman, The Hill 1/7/12

Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney want gay couples to enjoy certain benefits, but the right to call their relationship a marriage is not one of them.

“The sacrament of marriage was based on a man and a woman, has been for 3,000 years,” said the former House Speaker [Gingrich].

Jon Huntsman was the only candidate to endorse civil unions, saying states should be able to talk about how they want to treat same-sex couples.

Rick Santorum, who has made strengthening traditional marriage a major plank of his campaign platform, said that not only should the U.S. Constitution ban gay marriage for all states, but that gays who are already married would see their marriages annulled.

To read the entire article above, CLICK HERE.

From "Republican presidential candidates Romney, Santorum challenged on gay rights" by The Associated Press 1/8/12

. . . Rick Santorum says he believed in respect and dignity for all people but reiterated his opposition to gay marriage and adoptions by gay parents.

The former senator from Pennsylvania is an outspoken social conservative and has made opposition to abortion and gay marriage central to his campaign.

To read the entire article above, CLICK HERE.

From "Rick Santorum, Mitt Romney Pressed About Support For Gay Rights During 2012 New Hampshire GOP Debate" by Amanda Terkel, Huffington Post 1/8/12

When the moderator asked Santorum if he would be a voice for "speaking out for gay rights" in the Republican Party, the former Pennsylvania senator replied, "I would be a voice in speaking out for making sure that every person in America, gay or straight, is treated with respect and dignity and has the equality of opportunity. That does not mean that I would agree with certain things that the gay community would like to do with changing laws, with respect to marriage or respect to adoption or things like that. You can be respectful. ... But just because you don't agree with someone's desire to change the law doesn't mean you don't like them or you hate them or you want to discriminate against them."

He cited his town hall meetings in New Hampshire, where he has been repeatedly questioned about gay rights.

"I listen to the other side, I let them make their arguments and we do so in a very respectful way. And you know what? We may not agree," he said.

To read the entire article above, CLICK HERE.

From "Santorum’s Response to Question on Gay Rights" by Jeremy W. Peters, New York Times 1/8/12

Asked what would happen if his son told him he was gay, Mr. Santorum said, “I would love him as much as I did the second before he said it.”

In a 2003 interview with GQ, he was asked what he would tell a son who admitted to having an attraction to men. He essentially said his son should remain celibate.

“I would try to point out to them what is the right thing to do. And we have many temptations to do things we shouldn’t do,” he told the magazine. “It doesn’t mean you have to submit.”

Mr. Santorum added that all parents should help steer their children in a direction “that would lead them to a better and happier life.”

To read the entire article above, CLICK HERE.

Christian Liberty at Risk with a President Romney?

If President Obama becomes a one-term president in favor of Republican Mitt Romney, the current Obama administration Gay Agenda would continue unabated. Although Romney claims he would uphold the Defense of Marriage Act, he espouses the same "gay rights" platform as Obama, particularly emphasizing his favor toward employment non-discrimination based on sexual orientation.

“I don’t believe in discriminating in employment or opportunity for gay individuals. So I favor gay rights.”
-- Mitt Romney told Nashua Telegraph 11/22/11

As explained by the mainstream media, "gay rights" is a zero-sum game: Winning homosexual 'rights' means Christians must lose freedom of religion.

UPDATE 8/13/12: VP nominee Paul Ryan backed by GOP homosexualists because Rep. Ryan voted for Gay Agenda ENDA in 2007

UPDATE 4/29/12: As Mass. governor, Romney wanted to ride fence on same-sex marriage, says liberal media

UPDATE 1/30/12: Romney Wins Big with Florida Homosexual Republicans

UPDATE 1/9/12: Romney favors same-sex domestic partnerships

UPDATE 12/21/11: Romney Backs Obama's Homosexual Military Policy

For background, read Congressional Definition of the 'Radical Homosexual Agenda' and also read about the progression of ENDA (federal Employment Non-Discrimination Act) and also read about Romney & Abortion: Liberals Attack From Both Sides


(Complete 11/22/11 video interview with Nashua Telegraph link below)



-- From "Romney denies change since ’08" by Jake Berry, Staff Writer, Nashua Telegraph 11/22/11

Asked about the accusations of flip-flops, Romney said he has stayed consistent on the issue of same-sex marriage. “I don’t believe in discriminating in employment or opportunity for gay individuals. So I favor gay rights. I do not favor gay marriage,” he said.

But, on the issue of abortion, the candidate acknowledged changing his stance after his time in office.

“When I ran for governor, I said I wouldn’t change the law (on abortion). That was effectively a pro-choice position. I changed to being adamantly pro-life,” Romney said.

To read the entire article above and to view the entire 30-minute interview video, CLICK HERE.

From "Romney supports “gay rights”, but not gay marriage" by Staff Writer, PinkNews.co.uk 11/22/11

US Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has responded to claims by the Obama administration that he has constantly changed his position on LGBT equality.

During Romney’s unsuccessful bid for the late Ted Kennedy’s senate seat in 1994, and again during his successful campaign for governor in 2002, he ran as a staunch LGBT ally.

Romney vowed to end workplace discrimination against the state’s gay community and promised to support civil partnerships for same-sex couples.

To read the entire article above, CLICK HERE.

From "Rick Santorum: Mitt Romney Is 'To The Left' Of President Obama On Gay Rights" by Hayley Miller, The Huffington Post 11/14/11

"I would argue that Mitt Romney, as governor of Massachusetts, was to the left of Barack Obama on gay marriage," Santorum told [talk radio host Laura] Ingraham when asked about how Romney might react to a proposed repeal of the Defense of Marriage Act, a 1996 law defining federal marriage as being between one man and one woman.

"If you want to see the contrast, the contrast is there. [I'm a] solid conservative who stood and fought for [DOMA], opposed to Mitt Romney, who issued gay marriage licenses and actually violated the constitution of Massachusetts to institute gay marriage in the state," he added.

To read the entire article above, CLICK HERE.

From "NH gay marriage push highlights GOP shifts" by Steve Peoples, Associated Press 11/24/11

[New Hampshire] State lawmakers plan in the coming weeks to take up a measure to repeal the law allowing same-sex couples to wed and a vote is expected at some point in January -- the same month as New Hampshire holds the nation's first Republican presidential primary contest.

Romney was the Massachusetts governor when his state legalized gay marriage. The Romney administration, as directed by the courts, granted nearly 200 same-sex marriage requests for gay and lesbian couples in 2005.

This past June, he said during a debate that he favors a federal constitutional amendment banning the practice. That's been his position at least since the beginning of his 2008 presidential bid, when he was the only major Republican candidate to support such an amendment.

But as a Massachusetts Senate candidate back in 1994, Romney told a Boston-area gay newspaper that same-sex marriage is "a state issue as you know -- the authorization of marriage on a same-sex basis falls under state jurisdiction." Aides say it's unfair to scrutinize Romney's position in 1994 -- when there was virtually no discussion of a federal amendment. And they suggest Romney's rivals have far more blatant inconsistencies in recent months.

To read the entire article above, CLICK HERE.

From "Will the real Mitt Romney please stand up?" by Chris Johnson, Washington Blade 6/15/11

Romney’s support for employment rights — through ENDA [federal Employment Non-Discrimination Act] or otherwise — is unusual for Republican presidential candidates early on during the primary season.

. . . support for ENDA from Romney would be consistent with a previously articulated position he held in 1994 when he was running against the late Sen. Edward Kennedy for his seat representing Massachusetts in the U.S. Senate.

Additionally, Romney pledged to “make equality for gays and lesbians a mainstream concern” and said Kennedy, who was known as a champion of LGBT rights in the Senate, would be unable to make that promise to the LGBT community.

“We have discussed a number of important issues such as the Federal Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA), which I have agreed to co-sponsor, and if possible broaden to include housing and credit, and the bill to create a federal panel to find ways to reduce gay and lesbian youth suicide, which I also support,” Romney wrote.

According to a 1994 article from Bay Windows, Romney also articulated support for ENDA during a public meeting of the Massachusetts Log Cabin Club with his then-Republican opponent, John Lakian. The meeting between Republican candidates and the gay group was hailed as a milestone for LGBT rights in Massachusetts.

“I will fight against discrimination of any kind throughout our system,” Romney was quoted as saying. “I don’t know exactly where you legislate and where you don’t legislate or how you make that work and where you don’t. But I am not limiting my support of equal rights for all people just to [U.S. Rep.] Barney Frank’s legislation in the area of employment. I would be happy to continue the fight in other areas such as credit and housing.”

To read the entire article above, CLICK HERE.

Also read 2012: Obama vs. an Evangelical, or vs. a Mormon?

UPDATE 12/29/11: 850 Rabbis, Rabbinical Alliance of America Calls Romney 'Dangerous Homosexualist' (video):