[ProCivitas]

"I think people are entitled to believe what they want to believe, but what they say in their official and secular roles should be an expression of tolerance and respect for people regardless of our differences,” Romney then said.

Wrong. What folks express in their official roles should be whatever their views are re what's pertinent to their work. Pace was both correct (you know...because he agrees with Me.)and entitled to express whatever views he had on the subject(even if they had been so misguided as to not agree with Me). The effects of morality and immorality tend to be relevant to all sorts of public and other institutional functions. Immorality thrives in a climate of cowed silence.

Romney's difficulty here seems to be that he's not merely "not anti-gay", as he puts it. He's apparently 'anti-anti-gay', .... and in logic two negatives equals...?

[The Ghost of FReepers Past]

I agree.

[TexanSniper]

So you think that it’s the job of government officials to give morality lessons and tell the citizenry how they should live their lives. Interesting.

[TommyDale]

Where are Romney’s religious convictions? I know his church teaches otherwise.

[Gelato]

He's apparently 'anti-anti-gay'...

You got it.

[little jeremiah]

Thanks, haven’t done any pinging for a few days due to computer revolt, but everything seems under control today. So, I’ll be a-pinging later tonight or tomorrow.

Thumbs down on Romney as far as I’m concerned.