Posted on 09/11/2006 10:48:41 AM PDT by Blackirish
BOSTON - Lately it seems as if Mitt Romney — a Mormon who wants to disabuse the public of the misconception that his church condones polygamy — simply cannot catch a break.
First there was “Big Love,” a TV series about polygamy in Utah that made a major splash on HBO in March. Although the show’s creators pointed out that the official Mormon Church has banned polygamy since 1890, casual viewers don’t always make the distinction.
Then came the high-profile arrest last month of polygamist Warren Steed Jeffs, who was on the FBI’s Most Wanted List. Jeffs was the leader of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, a moniker that is confusingly close to the Mormon church’s official name, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
“It bothers me no end that the term polygamy keeps being associated with my faith,” says Romney, the governor of Massachusetts, in an interview with The Examiner. “There is nothing more awful, in my view, than the violation of the marriage covenant that one has with one’s wife.
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Romney made some points when he refused to have his state pay for security for Khatami.
We run into Mitt around town quite a bit.
Does this mean Cindy Sheehan is moving here, too?
"I believe that abortion should be safe and legal in this country. I have since the time that my mom took that position when she ran in 1970 as a US Senate candidate. I believe that since Roe v. Wade has been the law for 20 years we should sustain and support it."
"Regardless of one's beliefs about choice, you would hope it would be safe and legal,"
"I respect and will protect a woman's right to choose"
"Women should be free to choose based on their own beliefs, not mine and not the government's."
I guess I can still vote in senate and house races.
This is why he will not be......
http://www.forbes.com/home/feeds/ap/2006/04/05/ap2650336.html
The rest of the article can be accessed here. The above is apparently an excerpt:
http://www.examiner.com/printa-277076~Meet_the_next_president:_Mitt_Romney.html
Nice to see you have revived from your coma.
However none of the folks you named have even a glimmer of hope for the job. As admirable as the former Mayor is, and as reprehensible as McCain is, or even as empty as Romney's suit is...none of them will get the nod.
Give the average American voter more credit for common sense. We are electing a President here...not a pig in a poke.
This is going to be a very large obstacle:
http://www.lifenews.com/state1315.html
Massachusetts Gov. Romney Won't Issue Morning After Pill Exemption
December 8, 2005
Boston, MA (LifeNews.com) -- Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney has reversed himself on whether he will issue an exemption for Catholic and private hospitals that don't want to be forced to distribute the morning after pill to rape victims.
The state legislature approved a bill backed by abortion advocates mandating that all state hospitals must make the Plan B drugs, which sometimes cause an abortion, available to women who have been raped.
Catholic and other religious and private hospitals that have moral beliefs against the drug, objected.
Romney on Wednesday indicated the state health department would issue an exemption to such hospitals because state law also mandates that they can't be forced to perform abortions or distribute contraception.
But Romney said Thursday that his legal advisors reviewed the matter after his idea came under attack from lawmakers and pro-abortion groups. He said is legal counsel told him the new law supersedes the old one.
"On that basis I have instructed the Department of Public Health to follow the conclusion of my own legal counsel and to adopt that sounder view," Romney said, according to an AP report.
The new law will go into effect on December 14 and Attorney General Tom Reilly, a Democrat who is running for governor next year, said he would make sure it's strongly enforced against all hospitals.
Romney spokesman Eric Fehrnstrom previously said the governor supports exempting Catholic and private hospitals because it "respects the views of health care facilities that are guided by moral principles on this issue."
Seven other states that have laws forcing hospitals to dispense the Plan B drugs do not have exemptions for religious facilities.
Possibly Michigan. His father managed to get elected here despite the "He's a Mormon issue."
It would depend on how many dead vote in De Toilet.
So who paid? Harvard? CAIR? The Iranian government?
How about this:
July 1st, 2002 Mitt Romney signed a permenant ban on Assault Weapons. “Deadly assault weapons have no place in Massachusetts,” Romney said link
He also supported the federal AWB and Brady Bill in his 1994 campaign and reiterated his support for the federal AWB in 2002.
Well, that does it for me - yerrrrrOUTTATHERE!
So who paid? Harvard? CAIR? The Iranian government?
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