Posted on 08/30/2012 5:24:09 AM PDT by scottjewell
So quaint, the notion of "party platform," planks hammered together to support a speaker and his or her vantage point, the way "stump speech" is said to come from the days when candidates stood on tree stumps to address the voters.
The 2012 GOP platform is no-way, no-how when it comes to abortion and same-sex marriage, but there’s a chink in that social-warrior armor: There's nothing in it banning adoption by same sex couples.
Although party platforms can be at variance with the candidate’s own views, in this case it seems to be consonant with Mitt Romney’s stance on adoptions by same-sex couples, which amounts to, "fine."
Even though he, like his party platform, is against same-sex marriage, he told Fox’s Neil Cavuto, “I know many gay couples that are able to adopt children. That’s fine. But my preference is that we ... continue to define marriage as the relationship between a man and a woman.”
Which means, under the Republican platform, it’s all right for a gay couple to be parents, but not spouses?
That’s right: here’s the former Massachusetts governor in the same interview:
"And if two people of the same gender want to live together, want to have a loving relationship, or even to adopt a child -- in my state [Massachusetts] individuals of the same sex were able to adopt children. In my view, that’s something that people have a right to do. But to call that marriage is something that in my view is a departure from the real meaning of that word.”
As the GOP is standing firm on its platform, in Romney’s semi-home state of Utah, which is one of five states to ban same-sex adoptions, there’s a little dust-up about a TV lineup and gay parents.
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
The “Right to Adopt”? Taking possession of other people’s children is a right?
The la times.....they always support the conservatives.
For Democrats.....homosexual pictures good, baby pictures bad.
Maybe I'm confused, but this kind of "impassioned outrage" is the very thing that the Left is so good at drumming up, so they can drown out all critical thinking and, yes, logic.
So PLEASE, take a long and LOGICAL look at this cold, hard truth:
Romney is the BEST--not the PERFECT--candidate running for President. A vote for Romney may be cancelled out by a vote for Obama; but enough votes for Obama, left uncancelled-- for what ever emotionally compelling reasons--COULD put him back in the White House.
And that--both my mind AND my gut tell me--is UNCONSCIONABLE!
Which in the end just winds up pissing everybody off on both side.
I hope older kids - the kids who are hard to place. (Wife and I are looking to adopt a sibling group - the oldest is 14 then the other are 9 (twins). The 14 y/o was born without a left hand, the twins were born with FAS).
I have already taken a logical look at the truth, and Romney is a pro-gay, pro-abortion social liberal. Further, like Obama, he presents himself as a Christian when he isn’t (Mormonism denies many of the central tenets of Christianity). I will not be browbeaten into voting for a slightly-less-liberal candidate to replace a very liberal candidate.
Romneycare, gay marriage, no problem with gays adopting children or becoming leaders in Boy Scouts, forcing Catholic hospitals to provide the morning-after pill? Sorry, no thanks. Can’t support a guy like that.
I’m Christian, and called upon to witness to the truth. Romney is a transparent fraud, as well as a social liberal. Sorry, he lost my vote a long time ago.
Do whatever you’d like. I’m not trying to tell anyone else what they should do. But if Romney loses, he and the GOP have nobody to blame but themselves.
Yes, the older children are the ones in real need. Good for you and your wife. I hope it all works out; those kids sound like they need such loving care as you and your wife have to offer.
May God bless you and this effort, sir! There are so few opportunities for kids like this to be placed in loving homes.
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