WASHINGTON – The ti between Governor Mt Romney, the prumptive Republin printial nomee, and the Natnal Organizatn for Marriage, a leadg anti-gay group, are growg eper by the day. In…
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- IS CRAIG ROMNEY GAY
- TI BETWEEN ROMNEY, ANTI-GAY GROUP GROW DEEPER
- WHAT WILL 2016 MT ROMNEY SAY ABOUT GAY MARRIAGE?
- SEN. LARRY CRAIG: 'I AM NOT GAY'
IS CRAIG ROMNEY GAY
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Skip to Ma ContentCraig: Romney "Not Only Threw Me Unr His Campaign B, He Backed Up And Ran Over Me AgaYeas & Nays has obtaed excerpts of Matt Ler's terview of Sen. Be notified when an answer is postedAdd your answer:Earn +20 ptsQ: Is Craig Romney gayWre your answer... But the ndidate himself went much further today, seekg to tie Craig's alleged search for a gay liasn to the broar pattern of rptn permeatg Washgton recent years.
Tagg, Matt, Josh, Ben and Craig Romney — they wore name tags to help tell them apart — were game for host Conan O’Brien‘s queri, which veered away om hot-button topics like gay marriage and immigratn, and stead foced on the Romney fay’s penchant for lighthearted mischief-makg. WASHINGTON – The ti between Governor Mt Romney, the prumptive Republin printial nomee, and the Natnal Organizatn for Marriage, a leadg anti-gay group, are growg eper by the day. “The more we learn about Romney’s close ti to NOM, the more anti-gay he looks – and is, ” said HRC Print Joe Solmone.
TI BETWEEN ROMNEY, ANTI-GAY GROUP GROW DEEPER
Romney himself has signed NOM’s vilently anti-gay “marriage pledge” which Romney promis, if elected, to set up a printial missn to “vtigate” gay Amerins for alleged harassment and timidatn.
Two weeks ago, HRC unearthed secret NOM memos outlg a strategy to “drive a wedge between gays and blacks. ”The Human Rights Campaign is Ameri's largt civil rights anizatn workg to achieve lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr equaly. BTW, mors of Craig's homosexualy didn't jt pop up last year.
WHAT WILL 2016 MT ROMNEY SAY ABOUT GAY MARRIAGE?
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.
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. 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.
SEN. LARRY CRAIG: 'I AM NOT GAY'
" "Let me be clear: I am not gay and never have been, " said Craig, who has aligned himself wh nservative groups who oppose gay rights. Last fall, Craig's office publicly nied assertns by Inter blogger Mike Rogers that the senator is gay. In 1996, Craig also voted favor of the Defense of Marriage Act, which ni feral regnn to same-sex marriag and prevents stat om beg forced to regnize the marriag of gay and lbian upl legally performed other stat.
Craig also has opposed expandg the feral hate crim law to ver offens motivated by anti-gay bias and, 1996, voted agast a bill that would have outlawed employment discrimatn based on sexual orientatn, which failed by a sgle vote the Senate. " Romney: "Homo says what?