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.
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.
ROMNEY'S VIEW ON GAY MARRIAGE NOT EVOLVG
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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. Senate 1994, he promised to be a champn for "full equaly" for gays and lbians — which many unrstood to clu even gay marriage.
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 *
"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.
MT ROMNEY ON GAY MARRIAGE
As ernor, Romney faced challenge on gay marriage * romney on gay marriage *
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. 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 . 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. Romney rtated Thursday that he thks 's fe for gay upl to adopt children.
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 *
On Wednday, Romney lled gay marriage a "tenr" issue and chose his words refully about civil unns. 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.
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.
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 *
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.
Christie has opposed gay marriage and said should be voted on by rints of each state. But the end he blked and didn't take a state urt lg favor of gay marriage to the New Jersey Supreme Court, lettg stand. Both issu will hnt him wh relig nservativ the primari if he ns, and he'll no doubt be dog his own dance, as will all the GOP ntenrs, who will try to n om the gay issue while also tryg to appease social 's worse for Romney, who, the 2012 mpaign, supported a feral marriage amendment, certaly not jt leavg the issue to the stat.
SUPERDONOR BACKS ROMNEY — AND GAY MARRIAGE
As I wrote durg the 2012 mpaign, as recently as 2005, as Romney foced on nng for the princy, he gave a speech to nservative voters South Carola sayg, "Some gays are actually havg children born to them. "BILL O'REILLY, HOST: "Factor" follow-up segment tonight, today marks the first anniversary of gay marriage Massachetts, a urt cisn that is still ultra ntroversial.
More than 6, 000 gay upl have ma legal the Commonwealth. And I hope , the Boston Globe (search), which is a big cheerlear for gay marriage, they do a poll, and I n't make heads or tails out of the poll. One of the qutns was do you approve or disprove of gay and lbian upl beg allowed to get married?
And 50 percent of the rints of the Commonwealth disproved, 37 percent they ask another qutn: Do you thk gay marriage should be outlawed by law?
DO ‘MOST AMERINS’ AGREE WH ROMNEY ON GAY MARRIAGE?
When somebody says, "Hey, Governor, you're vlatg my civil rights as a gay. However, he was support of domtic partnership benefs and the right of homosexual upl to adopt children. The lg me as a lawsu om the Gay and Lbian Advot and Defenrs (GLAD) was brought agast the Massachetts Department of Health Superr Court on behalf of homosexual upl.
He lled “too extreme” bee he though would outlaw domtic partnerships for homosexual upl.
In answerg a qutn ncerng the Boy Suts of Ameri and whether they should allow homosexuals the anizatn, Romney supported the Suts termg that, but at the same time said that anyone should be allowed to participate, regardls of sexual orientatn. Romney was observed as, “He is pro-choice and, asi om the marriage bate, generally agreement wh gay-rights advot, ” the Febary 2005 issue of the Amerin Spectator. Acrdg to the homosexual magaze “Bay Wdows”,.