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Contents:
- MT ROMNEY'S GAY SPOKMAN: A MILTONE REPUBLIN POLICS
- ROMNEY'S VIEWS ON GAY MARRIAGE: ALSO EVOLVG?
- MT ROMNEY ON GAY RIGHTS OVER THE YEARS
- THIS IS HOW PROUD ROMNEY WAS TO BE PRO-GAY RIGHTS 1994
MT ROMNEY'S GAY SPOKMAN: A MILTONE REPUBLIN POLICS
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. * mitt romney is gay *
The hirg of Richard Grenell by Romney signals a shift the GOP's openns to gays and giv the party s first out printial mpaign recent hirg of Richard Grenell, Mt Romney's openly gay foreign-policy spokman, reprents a breakthrough the world of Republin printial mpaigns. Grenell isn't the first out gay person to serve as a high-level staffer to a GOP nomee, but as far as I n tell, he is the first such prs spokman -- the first to serve as the public face of the all-but-certa Republin nomee -- and on the historilly sensive issue of natnal secury, no ls. As an openly gay Republin printial polics, Grenell jos a small aterny of out GOP staffers, stantly beg the hight-profile of the band.
ROMNEY'S VIEWS ON GAY MARRIAGE: ALSO EVOLVG?
What is the fg image the Washgton Post’s story on Mt Romney, as a stunt at the Cranbrook School, bullyg a gay teen-age boy? Maybe ’s… * mitt romney is gay *
His rise signals a remarkable new openns a party often stigated for s social nservatism; addn to beg out, Grenell has waged some public battl for gay rights that ntradict his new boss's own Republin printial mpaigns have had staffers who were known to be gay before, the staffers, like the sr of gay GOPers workg on Capol Hill, have generally sought to avoid public notice, or even worked to stay hh-hh the face of wispread social speculatn about any sgle man of a certa age who is powerful but neher married nor a ladi' man.
MT ROMNEY ON GAY RIGHTS OVER THE YEARS
Mt Romney earned huge cheers at a nservative nference Febary when <a href=" bragged</a>, "On my watch, we fought hard and prevented Massachetts om beg the Las Vegas of gay marriage." But 1994, nng for Senate agast Ted Kennedy, he told a lol gay and lbian paper he was even more pro-gay rights than Kennedy. * mitt romney is gay *
He has been publicly, outspokenly gay for years. He's also on the rerd as a supporter of gay marriage, somethg Romney oppos.
THIS IS HOW PROUD ROMNEY WAS TO BE PRO-GAY RIGHTS 1994
"He's certaly not the first gay person to have worked a Republin mpaign or admistratn, but they've often kept quieter, " said gay activist and journalist Michelangelo Signorile. "This is somebody who actually has opns on gay issu, vers somebody who jt happens to be gay. "As Grenell told the gay magaze The Advote of his unsuccsful attempt to get his partner listed the U.