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Contents:
- ROMNEY'S VIEWS ON GAY MARRIAGE: ALSO EVOLVG?
- ROMNEY'S VIEW ON GAY MARRIAGE NOT EVOLVG
- WHAT WILL 2016 MT ROMNEY SAY ABOUT GAY MARRIAGE?
- MT ROMNEY ON GAY MARRIAGE
- MT ROMNEY'S GAY RIGHTS VIEWS CSED FAY FRICTN IN 2002
- AS ERNOR, ROMNEY FACED CHALLENGE ON GAY MARRIAGE
- SUPERDONOR BACKS ROMNEY — AND GAY MARRIAGE
- DO ‘MOST AMERINS’ AGREE WH ROMNEY ON GAY MARRIAGE?
ROMNEY'S VIEWS ON GAY MARRIAGE: ALSO EVOLVG?
Print Obama said his posn on gay marriage "evolved" over time, and a se n be ma that GOP printial ndidate Mt Romney's views on gay rights have changed as well. Though Romney says his posn has been nsistent; activists don't see that way. * romney on gay marriage *
A day after Print Obama announced his support for gay marriage, Republin printial ndidate Mt Romney avoid the issue at a mpaign appearance Thursday Nebraska. Obama has said his posn on gay marriage "evolved" over time, and a se n be ma that Romney's views on gay rights have changed as well. Romney has long been acced of hedgg on issu like gay rights, but Wednday he sisted his posn on same-sex marriage is clear: "My view is that marriage self is a relatnship between a man and a woman.
ROMNEY'S VIEW ON GAY MARRIAGE NOT EVOLVG
Unlike those of the other possible ndidat of the GOP tablishment, Jeb Bh and Chris Christie, Romney's posns on gays have been more fed and extreme -- and more nsistent and reerated much more recently, pecially sce he veered far right the primari 2012. Any change will be seen as a yet another major flip-flop. * romney on gay marriage *
Senate 1994, he promised to be a champn for "full equaly" for gays and lbians — which many unrstood to clu even gay marriage. "His mpaign distributed at the gay pri para pk flyers that asserted that he would be a better and a stronger advote than Ted Kennedy, " rells lobbyist Arlene Isaacson. She says jt a few years later, everythg changed — after Romney was elected ernor 2002, and a Massachetts supreme urt cisn 2003 paved the way for gay marriage the next year.
"It was across-the-board prohibn of any small be of equaly for the gay muny.
Romney did everythg he uld to keep Massachetts om beg the "Las Vegas of gay marriage, " backg a nstutnal ban at the state and feral levels. But even there, gay rights advot take issue.
WHAT WILL 2016 MT ROMNEY SAY ABOUT GAY MARRIAGE?
Romney Forced To Distance Himself From Fay's Gay Rights Views In 2002 * romney on gay marriage *
In 1994, for example, Romney favored the ia of gays servg openly the ary. Also, after first backg legislatn to protect gays and lbians om job discrimatn, Romney now oppos .
MT ROMNEY ON GAY MARRIAGE
As ernor, Romney faced challenge on gay marriage * romney on gay marriage *
Clarke Cooper, head of the gay anizatn the Log Cab Republins, agre: "He's parsed his words a way that almost seems to some like he wants both ways.
MT ROMNEY'S GAY RIGHTS VIEWS CSED FAY FRICTN IN 2002
Mt Romney reacts to Obama's gay marriage announcement: “My view is that marriage self is a relatnship between a man and a woman. That’s my own * romney on gay marriage *
Romney rtated Thursday that he thks 's fe for gay upl to adopt children. On Wednday, Romney lled gay marriage a "tenr" issue and chose his words refully about civil unns.
AS ERNOR, ROMNEY FACED CHALLENGE ON GAY MARRIAGE
Billnaire hedge fund manager Pl Sger has given $1 ln to Rtore Our Future, the superPAC supportg Mt Romney. Sger is a longtime donor to GOP , but he's also a high-profile, big-money advote for gay marriage. * romney on gay marriage *
Brown says the approval this week of a nstutnal ban on gay marriage North Carola prov the pot. Natnal polls ntue to show growg support for gay marriage — now somewhere around 50 percent.
SUPERDONOR BACKS ROMNEY — AND GAY MARRIAGE
When one reporter asked if he had any ment on the admistratn and gay marriage, which durg recent days has seen Vice Print Vice Print Joe Bin and Edutn Secretary Arne Dunn endorse gay marriage and has led the admistratn to fend the print's posn as "still evolvg" when to gay marriage, Romney wouldn't answer. He's touched off lots of discsn about his past posns and the hol he's dug for himself -- like the famo "47 percent" one vexg issue wh which Romney will have to grapple is what to say about homosexualy and marriage equaly a world where gay marriage will likely be the law of the land every state. Unlike those of the other possible ndidat of the GOP tablishment, Jeb Bh and Chris Christie, Romney's posns on gays have been more fed and extreme -- and more nsistent and reerated much more recently, pecially sce he veered far right the primari 2012.
DO ‘MOST AMERINS’ AGREE WH ROMNEY ON GAY MARRIAGE?
Any change will be seen as a yet another major flip-flop by a ndidate who's already got a dozen he's been jugglg for Jeb Bh ma ugly statements about gays 1994 -- claimg that "sodomy" shouldn't be "elevated to the same nstutnal stat as race and relign" -- was 20 years ago. Bh is still repugnantly dog-whistlg to nservativ by sayg we mt "safeguard relig liberty" even as we should "rpect" gay and lbian upl seekg to get protectns, but unlike Romney he was able to take back his most extreme rhetoric bee was two s old.