Romney to Cut Embryonic Stem Cell Investments After Press Discovery

LifeSite.net ^ | August 17, 2007 | Elizabeth O'Brien

[EternalVigilance]

BOSTON - After a recent discovery by the press, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney appears to be pulling out his investments from two companies that use embryonic stem cell research. The discovery of his investments may have a negative effect on voters who already have doubts over the statesman's inconsistent record on life issues.

Members of the press and campaign opposition recently examined a federal financial statement and found that Romney owns stocks in Novo Nordisk and Millipore Corporation, two companies that use embryonic stem cells in their research, the Boston Herald Reports. Since the discovery was made public, Romney has stated that his investments will likely change to support his views.

"The trustee of the blind trust has said publicly that he will endeavour to make my investments conform with my positions, and I am confident that he will," said Romney. The former Massachusetts governor defended himself by saying that his investments were held in a blind trust which made him unable to specifically direct his funds. To some, however, this justification rings hollow in light of the fact that in 1994, he criticised Senator Edward M. Kennedy for the very same defense during the U.S. Senate campaign.

"The blind trust is an age-old ruse," Romney was quoted as saying at the time, the Herald reports. "You give a blind trust rules. You can say to a blind trust, don't invest in properties which would be in conflict of interest or where the seller might think they're going to get an advantage from me."

According to Romney's trust manager Brad Malt, of the law firm Ropes & Gray, the former governor took none of these precautions when the trust was established in 2002. Nevertheless, Malt also stated that it was impossible for Romney to predict where his money would go, for he "lost that ability once the trust was created."

According to the Herald, Romney owns between $190 and $250 million worth of assets. Out of this, he has between $100,000 and $250,000 invested in Novo Nordisk. On its official website, however, the company clearly states its support of embryonic stem cell research. (Read the Novo Nordisk statements on embryonic stem cell research: http://www.novonordisk.com/science/bioethics/stem_cell_ethic...).

Romney also invested in the Massachussetts-based Millipore Corporation, another company that uses embryonic stems cells for research. (See the Millipore website: http://www.millipore.com/corporate/pressroom.nsf/docs/73alx3).

Despite the fact that Romney appears to be pulling out of the problematic companies, the discovery of his these investments may shake the faith of conservative voters, especially since Romney's past record on life issues has been a slippery see-saw.

Ten years after declaring himself pro-choice, the former governor stated in 2004 that he had a pro-life conversion while discussing the very issue of embryonic stem cell research. He said, "It hit me very hard that we had so cheapened the value of human life in a Roe v. Wade environment that it was important to stand for the dignity of human life." Nevertheless, the recent discovery may once again have people questioning his motives and the reliability of such conservative claims during his run as presidential candidate.

Interestingly enough, however, it has also recently been discovered that the fiercely pro-life Senator Sam Brownback also had a much less sizeable amount of money invested in one of the same embryonic-stem-cell-using companies as Romney (Novo Nordisk), in the form of mutual funds. According to Brownback's financial disclosure records, he has between $1001 and $15000 invested in the mutual fund. Brownback's aides, however, have pointed out that in fact the fund is listed under one of Brownback's dependant children.

"The fund in question was not owned by Senator Brownback or his wife. It was owned by one of his children, who was unaware of the issue. The broker has already been contacted and instructed to sell the fund," said Brownback spokesman Brian Hart.

[EternalVigilance]

Other related threads:

Romney in Stem Cell Biz, Despite Political Opposition [Sam Brownback, too]

Mitt owns stock in stem cell research

Romney Faces A Credibility Gap

Romney Supports Human Life Amendment, Then Qualifies Stance

Embryonic Stem Cell Research Financier Joins Pro-Gay Fundraiser To Host Mitt Romney San Diego Event

[Sun]

Well, well, it seems Romney wants to be president badly.

It seems he’ll do or say just about anything to win.

[EternalVigilance]

I’ve never seen anyone with a worse case of it.

[Saundra Duffy]

This too shall pass. Romney’s blind trust keepers should have known better.

[glorgau]

He must have had a “revelation”.

[EternalVigilance]

"The blind trust is an age-old ruse." - Mitt Romney, 1994

[TAdams8591]

It’s good that Governor Romney discovered it and I admire him for doing the right thing. It isn’t easy keeping track of ones investments, when one has as many as Mitt, even when one has a mind too.

[ansel12]

“”especially since Romney’s past record on life issues has been a slippery see-saw.””

LOL I’ve heard that said about Romney.

[Saundra Duffy]

I wish I had some blind trusts . . . or any trusts for that matter. Romney has made a fortune by being a good businessman. This is a problem I wish I had - so much money to keep track of.

It is interesting how Sam Brownback’s name came up in this same vein - a guy who went after Romney with a vengeance. It’s interesting, you have to admit.

Good night, sweet princes and princesses.

[ansel12]

“Good night, sweet princes and princesses.”

Time for me too, goodnight.

[Graymatter]

What is it about Romney? I can’t go two days without being reminded of the Bass-o-Matic huckster.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6Op3OPItH0

[JohnnyZ]

Mitt says he opposes some embryonic stem cell research.

But he supports other embryonic stem cell research.

Always trying to play both sides of every issue, from guns, abortion, immigration, foreign policy ....

[restornu]

To whom it may concern

EternalVigilance up to his old obsession with MassRessistance...

This blog is akin to KlanWatch. We are watching the Hate groups in Massachusetts, namely the Massresistance “blog” and Article8.org. While they are the rightest of the right and mainly a fringe group, their hate speech should not go unnoticed. Unlike them, we are not afraid of opposing viewpoints, please feel free to comment.

MassResistance WatchIt now appears that LifeSite News is posting the story of the inaccuracies in the Fox News report but has the correction appeared on Massresistance’s ...
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[#1CTYankee]

"I’ve never seen anyone with a worse case of it."

Come'on, no one wants to be president more than Hillery, she would sell her soul. (Oh, she already did that)

[montag813]

That didn’t take long. Good work, Mr Romney.

[tiger-one]

We are watching the Hate groups in Massachusetts, "Hate groups" you write like a liberal. RESTO, don't be blinded by your religion.

[restornu]

What are you talking about this is from the link I posted on their watch

http://massresistancewatch.blogspot.com/

[2ndDivisionVet]

If Fred Thompson had been caught in the same situation you’d be all over him like white on rice, gleefully ripping him apart. Hypocritical, don’t you think?

[restornu]

So I did not read it careful enough sue me!

[Just mythoughts]

Hey the state of Missouri after the Fox ads decided to make stem cell research part of the state salvation program. No I am not a Romney supporter but there are a millions of Americans who have put their faith in a state run salvation plan.

[restornu]

Don’t pay this man any mind he is not a nice person!

[restornu]

Leave my faith out of this!

I dont go after yours if you have one!

[pacelvi]

I know people will “care” about this... but who cares.. if his blind trust did this, it’s not like he did.

And someone CMIIW but those companies do more than stem cell research right... so are we to believe that every product or research line of every company invested in needs to be examined for something politically incorrect?

Nonsense.

This is a meda hit against Republicans, as usual.

[Guenevere]

...and make us long for the conservatism of Bush's immigration proposal

Sheesh..I have no words....

..Guennie just shakes her head.

[greyfoxx39]

PING

[Saundra Duffy]

Fred T does not get a pass, no. The anti Mitt’s are out there in full force. Fair ‘nough.

[aMorePerfectUnion]

“It’s good that Governor Romney discovered it and I admire him for doing the right thing. It isn’t easy keeping track of ones investments, when one has as many as Mitt, even when one has a mind too.”

If Mitt had discovered it, you wouldn’t have heard about
it. Only when another’s flashlight fell upon the truth,
was Mitt forced to act. I admire people who do the right
thing “in the dark” - and not just when they are running
for office.

You flack for him.

ampu

[EternalVigilance]

“Yes, it’s just that simple!”

;-)

[EternalVigilance]

Always trying to play both sides of every issue, from guns, abortion, immigration, foreign policy ....

That would be Romney, yep.

A real, live "cover the road" politician.

"Live," politically, for the moment...

[ansel12]

EternalVigilance, the man that FR liberals love to hate.

[EternalVigilance]

We are watching the Hate groups in Massachusetts

If I had the ban button, you'd be permanent toast for that post.

MassResistance is not a hate group. Such a claim could qualify you for membership in the Southern Poverty Law Center, who think anyone to the right of Al Gore belongs to a "hate" group, but in my opinion it makes you a very poor fit for FR.

Readers can look for themselves here to see if this simple compilation of press clippings about Romney's record qualifies it for a designation as a "hate group."

You're now practicing gutter politics of the worst sort, restornu, and you should be ashamed. Threatening people, and slandering them, makes you no better than Hillary Clinton and her worst enablers.

[EternalVigilance]

Come'on, no one wants to be president more than Hillery, she would sell her soul. (Oh, she already did that)

So did Romney. He's much more accomplished than Hillary about actually advancing the most egregious parts of the radical Left's agenda.

Has Hillary ever enacted socialized medicine, complete with taxpayer-funded abortions? Mitt has.

Has Hillary implemented gay marriage? Mitt has.

Has Hillary ever signed a permanent "assault" weapons ban? Mitt has.

Has Hillary ever filled the public schools with the vilest homosexual propaganda? Mitt's agencies did, with his cooperation.

Mitt is Hillary, only slicker.

And he looks better in a suit...

[TAdams8591]

Much agreed with your assessment, restornu. After Mitt first announced, we received E-mails from a local conservative (about Mitt) who we met on previous occasions and whose brand of politics we had previously rejected. We were hopping mad after we read them, they were so negative, and dishonest, and sent a return E-mail telling them so. People like the author of that E-mail are on this forum. Such groups have mislead other conservatives and have hurt Governor Romney's bid for the presidency. However, it is still early and I am hopeful the undeserved harm they have caused him can be overcome.

While, unlike Liberals, I am not quick to push the bigotry button, it is still alive and well regarding some groups in the U.S., and among some groups and individuals in the U.S. It definitely exists here on FR and elsewhere regarding Mormons, and is most disturbing. There are those who oppose Mitt for legitimate reasons and those who oppose him just because he is a Mormon. The latter is truly incredible in 21st century America. Thankfully, I will never be among those despicable and disgraceful groups.

[#1CTYankee]

"So did Romney. He's much more accomplished than Hillary about actually advancing the most egregious parts of the radical Left's agenda."

Romney is a real piece of work, the only thing is some here think we can trust him to go forward with his new agenda(s)

He has good hair, nice suits and is pandering to the right like he needs to get the nomination.

He won't be getting my vote.

BTW, what happened to old crusty anyway? ;-D

[EternalVigilance]

That link leads to a blog whose sole purpose, it would seem, is to defend gay behavior and mock anyone and everyone who opposes it, especially in the public square and in public policy.

Though, at its heart, it’s little more than a thinly-disguised effort to attack Romney’s political opponents.

Is that what Mitt Romney has reduced you to defending?

[EternalVigilance]

Standing in the corner of a closet in Kennebunkport or something. ;-)

[asparagus]

I think the best leaders are the reluctant ones.

Like Ross Perot?

There are no "reluctant" leaders. All have ego. Even the "saint" Jimmy Carter has an ego the size of a watermelon. This seems like more "Fred" adulation to me. "He really doesn't want it, but feels compelled". Give me a break!

[Lovebloggers]

taxpayer funded abortions — we already have addressed that on another thread, which you refuse to respond to.

Implemented gay marriage? — what in the blazes are you talking about?

signed weapons ban? — oh yeah, when was that?

filled public schools with vilest homosexual propaganda? — again, what in the blazes are you talking about?

[asparagus]

I live in the Dallas/Ft Worth area and have to put up with that sycophant Mike Gallagher and his bigoted “questions”. Meanwhile, he sucks up to Fred as if it were the Second Coming.

[TAdams8591]

"If he gets elected, I’d expect the first four years to be spent like Clinton, immersed in polls, and feeling the wind. The second term is what is scary. Once he doesn’t need any more votes, I think he’d revert to his liberal roots, and make us long for the conservatism of Bush’s immigration proposal."

He didn't spend his governorship that way and thus it is unlikely he will spend a presidency that way.

As Ann Coulter said, Romney hoodwinked the Liberals in Mass. into voting for him. After all this hullabalooh, as president he will govern as both a social and fiscal conservative. Once Mitt turned right, he understood there was no turning back. It is highly doubtful during a second term he will make the same mistakes as President Bush, particularly if he is as concerned as you believe, with the polls.

[TAdams8591]

"If he gets elected, I’d expect the first four years to be spent like Clinton, immersed in polls, and feeling the wind. The second term is what is scary. Once he doesn’t need any more votes, I think he’d revert to his liberal roots, and make us long for the conservatism of Bush’s immigration proposal."

He didn't spend his governorship that way and thus it is unlikely he will spend a presidency that way.

As Ann Coulter said, Romney hoodwinked the Liberals in Mass. into voting for him. After all this hullabalooh, as president he will govern as both a social and fiscal conservative. Once Mitt turned right, he understood there was no turning back. It is highly doubtful during a second term he will make the same mistakes as President Bush, particularly if he is as concerned as you believe, with the polls.

[EternalVigilance]

This is a meda hit against Republicans, as usual.

Liberals hate turncoats. They had Romney in their back pocket for decades. Of course they're not going cut him any slack. Why are you surprised?

[Lovebloggers]

I find it curious those quotes do not offer any links to the source so the entire article can be read in context.

[#1CTYankee]

"As Ann Coulter said, Romney hoodwinked the Liberals in Mass. into voting for him. After all this hullabalooh, as president he will govern as both a social and fiscal conservative."

So essentially what Ann and you are saying is Romney was a fake and now we should trust him?

I don't put my faith in liars or frauds no matter how well they dance.

[TAdams8591]

Fred is a good candidate, but he's no more conservative than Mitt, and certainly is no second coming. Fortunately for Fred, he was Senator in a conservative state, and likely ran to the right of his opinions in order to capture that seat.

Unlike Fred, Mitt is no Washington insider and he made his money in private enterprise, not as a Washington lobbyist. Governor Romney has far more executive experience, and a creative mind full of ideas that would be good for Washington. The fact that he is even more articulate than the great communicator himself, Ronald Reagan is also a plus. Conservatives should encourage Mitt to use those abilities, to educate and advance the conservative ideology, as Reagan so enthusiastically did.

I am sorry to hear Mike Gallagher is for Fred. He's on late in my area. I'll have to listen and give him a call.

[TAdams8591]

No. Ann was saying Romney's the real thing who duped the Liberals.

Personally, I believe Romney should have run as a conservative, emphasizing some issues more important and particular to Mass. over others, rather than running as more of a Liberal. Perhaps people who say he couldn't have won the governorship in Mass. that way are correct, but I'm not inclined to agree with them. Now he's having a difficult time trying to prove to his base he's not one of them, but one of us. It is a lesson not only for Governor Romney but for us all.

I do believe Romney is doing all the right things to overcome it, and believe eventually he will.

[TAdams8591]

"Now he's having a difficult time trying to prove to his base he's not one of them, but one of us. It is a lesson not only for Governor Romney but for us all."

"Them" in the above sentence meaning LIBERALS.

[EternalVigilance]

taxpayer funded abortions — we already have addressed that on another thread, which you refuse to respond to.

You're out of touch. I've posted the proof many times here, including yesterday. Go to the CommonwealthCare state website and you will see that it provides abortions. It's an indisputable fact.

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Implemented gay marriage? — what in the blazes are you talking about?

He changed the marriage licences and told the justices of the peace they would be fired if they did not perform gay marriages...even though there is still, to this day, not a single law or constitutional provision that allows it, much less requires it.

As Judge Robert Bork said of the Goodridge decision that prompted Romney's perfidy, the whole thing was completely "...untethered to either the Massachusetts or United States Constitution."

And there is no doubt whatsoever that Mitt Romney used his exutive power to implement it.

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signed weapons ban? — oh yeah, when was that?

July 08, 2004

"Deadly assault weapons have no place in Massachusetts. These guns are not made for recreation or self-defense. They are instruments of destruction with the sole purpose of hunting down and killing people." - Mitt Romney

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filled public schools with vilest homosexual propaganda? — again, what in the blazes are you talking about?

Romney's Commission on Gay and Lesbian Youth used huge taxpayer funding to promote homosexuality in the public schools

• During most of Romney's term in office, there existed an agency called the Governor's Commission on Gay and Lesbian Youth. It was established before Romney came to power but it existed throughout his tenure. Even though he had legal control over this entity and the Commissioners served at his pleasure, he never dissolved the Commission, nor attempted to dictate who its members were, nor even restricted how it used its funding. Romney could have appointed pro-family people or representatives from ex-homosexual groups to serve on this Commission, but he never did.
  
  
  
• The Governor's Commission was perhaps the largest government-sanctioned promoter of the homosexual agenda to children in the United States. This entity spent millions of state tax dollars promoting the gay-lesbian-bisexual-transgender (GLBT) radicalism in Massachusetts schools by inundating them with GLBT speakers, presentations, films, books, parades, dances, posters, handouts, and help establishing GLBT clubs on campus. These events provided a model for homosexual activists around the country.
  
  
  (Note: See entire section below - "Romney's Commission organized public gay 'Youth Pride Day' parades and 'transgender proms' which promote unhealthy and risky behavior.")
• Instead of dissolving the Commission, Romney continued to fund it:

  More recently Romney proposed allocating $250,000 for the Governor's Commission on Gay and Lesbian Youth for fiscal year 2006, twice what he proposed for FY05. The Legislature ultimately funded the commission at $250,000 for FY05, so Romney's proposal for next year amounts to level funding, and the proposal is still a far cry from $1.6 million the commission received in the mid-'90s before the state budget crisis. Yet as commission co-chair Kathleen Henry said, Romney could just as easily have dissolved the program. "We serve completely at the will of the governor," said Henry.
  - Bay Windows 3/3/2005

• When Romney was criticized for Commission's funding, the homosexual activists came to his defense:

  Kathleen Henry, chairwoman of the Governor's Commission on Gay and Lesbian Youth, defended Romney. Henry said the governor's fiscal 2006 budget plan included $250,000 for the commission, twice as much as he proposed spending in 2005. ''The fact that he doubled last year's [proposed budget allocation] this year is huge to us. It's really huge. It says to us clearly that he gets the service for what it really is," said Henry.
  - Boston Globe 7/1/2005

• Twice after the Legislature approved funding for the Commission, Romney then appeased pro-family activists by vetoing it! However, since there are not enough Republicans to sustain vetoes, a veto is largely a charade, and the homosexual lobby was never seriously concerned when it happened. And Romney never put any effort into sustaining the vetoes. This enabled Romney to appear "pro-family," while the homosexuals still got their funding.
• When Romney vetoed money for his Governor's Commission, here's what he told the Boston Globe his reasons were (still pandering to the homosexual activists):

  Romney said his vetoes were motivated by fiscal prudence, not opposition to the programs or presidential politics. Even with his vetoes, the state would spend more than $1 million on teen pregnancy prevention and $250,000 on the programs for gay and lesbian youth. . . [Romney said,] ''The work that they're doing to prevent suicide and prevent violence is important work, and we support the work which they're doing . . . [but] we didn't see a need to raise their budget by 40 percent."
  - Boston Globe, 7/1/2005

• In May 2006, as he prepared his run for the presidency, MassResistance presented the Governor's office with shocking photographs of events and activities sponsored or organized by the Commission. A few days later, Romney announced his intention to dissolve the Commission. But within hours of that announcement, under pressure from the homosexual community, the Governor changed his mind. "We inundated him with outrage," one homosexual activist told the Boston Globe. So instead, the governor simply told the Commission members that it must focus on its "original mission" [which involves affirming homosexuality to children in the schools].
  - Boston Globe, 5/12/2006
• In June 2006, fearful that a future Governor might dissolve the Governor's Commission for Gay and Lesbian Youth, homosexual activists in the Legislature slipped an item into the 2007 budget creating a much more powerful "Commission on Gay and Lesbian Youth" which is independent of control by the Governor. Under extreme pressure from pro-family activists Romney vetoed that line item, but he made no effort to sustain the veto (the effort to sustain it was led by a Democrat!) and the veto was overridden. At that point, Romney simply dissolved the old Governor's Commission because, he said, it was now "duplicative."
  Governor's executive order.

Romney's Commission organized public gay "Youth Pride Day" parades and "transgender proms" which promote unhealthy and risky behavior

• The Governor's Commission on Gay and Lesbian Youth had no restrictions on the mixing of unscreened adult homosexuals and children. The Commission sponsored a "Youth Pride Parade" each year which features boys - some wearing women's clothes -- and adult homosexual activists.
  Photos of this parade
  Details of the homosexual youth group funded by Romney which organizes "Youth Pride"
• Youth Pride Day ends with a "GLBT Prom" at Boston City Hall Plaza where children as young as middle school age are allowed to mingle with cruising homosexual adults. Perhaps Romney should have proclaimed this day "Pedophile Heaven Day." The prom is promoted by the Governor's Commission and sponsored by the Boston Alliance of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Youth (BAGLY), a group that has promoted adult-child sex and has received funding from the Governor's Commission. (The executive director of BAGLY is a male-to-female transsexual.)
  Photos of the prom and a flyer handed out by pedophiles seeking boys at that event.
  Info on the BAGLY, pedophilia and its connection to the Commission
  More info on BAGLY and its connection to the Commission
  
• This shocking and sad spectacle of promoting the homosexual lifestyle to youth continued right through 2006. On March 27, 2006, Romney's Commission on Gay and Lesbian Youth issued a statement on Romney's Governor's Commission letterhead stating, "There's no place like Youth Pride….In celebration of their lives and diversity, gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and queer (GLBTQ) youth and their supporters [mostly adult homosexuals] will gather by the thousands to kick off Massachusetts' 12th annual Youth Pride on Saturday, May 13th at noon on Boston Common."
  Press release from Governor's office on this event
  

Romney issues a proclamation celebrating gay "Youth Pride Day"

• In 2004, Romney issued an official state proclamation celebrating "Gay Youth Pride Day" even though there was no legal reason requiring him to do this. The proclamation proudly touted "landmark" gay rights legislation in Massachusetts and boasted of supporting "the Commonwealth's gay and lesbian youth through school-based and educational programs."
  Proclamation from the Governor's office
• Note by always using the phrase "gay and lesbian youth," Romney has accepted the dangerous myth that homosexuals are born that way despite zero evidence. He has also accepted the homosexual movement's propaganda that young teens can understand and "declare" themselves to be gay. The Proclamation also urges, "all citizens to take cognizance of this event and participate fittingly in its observance." So not only does Romney honor this shocking event promoting a dangerous and immoral lifestyle to children, but he wants the rest of the state to honor it as well!

Romney's Department of Education promotes the homosexual agenda

• Under Romney's leadership, the Massachusetts Department of Education (DOE) continued to be rabidly pro-homosexual. The Department's website is full of "How To" information for homosexual activists within the public schools. One document titled "10 Easy Steps to Starting a GSA [Gay/Straight Alliance]", advises organizers to "find a meeting spot that gives members a sense of security and privacy." Other documents discuss "coming out to friends and family." Many of the programs come under the name of "Safe Schools" or "Anti-Bullying" programs but the goal of these activities is to reassure children that "It's OK to be Gay." This is a horrible fraud perpetrated on children and nowhere on this website do they mention groups that counsel sexually confused youth, state that the behavior is reversible or even mention the names of ex-homosexual organizations. To see the DOE's pro-homosexual propaganda, go to the DOE website or go to these links on that website:
  
  The Safe Schools Program for Gay & Lesbian Students
  "Outright" pamphlet distributed to kids
  How to start a Gay/Straight Alliance at school
  Gay/Straight Alliance Student Guide
  Gay/Straight Alliance resources page
  
• In conjunction with The Governor's Commission on Gay and Lesbian Youth, the DOE has worked hand and hand with the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN) and Parents, Friends, and Families of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG) to sponsor radical pro-homosexual assemblies and workshops at public schools. Before Romney was elected, one such session was taped by pro-family activists at which presenters described to children how to engage in a highly dangerous homosexual activity called "fisting" which violated both health and obscenity codes. This received nationwide publicity. Despite this incident, the incoming Romney administration did nothing to institute new regulations to prevent such atrocities from happening again. Indeed, during Romney's tenure, the Commission and the DOE continued to work closely with GLSEN and PGLAG, organizations that distribute literature and books with highly inappropriate sexual themes including adult-children sex.
  Full report on the "fisting" incident
  Info on how GLSEN works with the Governor's Commission
  How PFLAG promotes pedophilia
• The DOE's "Youth Risk Behavior Survey", given to school children across the state in several grades, asks them if they are heterosexual, gay or lesbian, bisexual, or "not sure" and how frequently they engage in hetero and homosexual sex.
  Info on 2005 Youth Risk Behavior Survey
  
• Romney's DOE has failed to properly enforce the state's Parental Notification Act, the parents' right to opt their children out of sex ed curricula, when school systems have claimed that the law's "human sexuality issues" phrase does not apply to homosexuality or transgender subject matter. This has caused enormous stresses for parents trying to uphold their own values, and has led to incidents such as in Lexington, where parent David Parker was arrested and spent a night in jail over the school's refusal to obey the notification law regarding his 6-year-old son in kindergarten. As there was no redress within the DOE, Parker ultimately initiated an expensive federal Civil Rights lawsuit which is still in process.
  Information on the David Parker incident
  

Romney's Department of Public Health (DPH) cooperates with the homosexual activist movement

• Romney's Department of Public Health contributed to the The Little Black Book: Queer in the 21st Century, a shocking publication apparently in violation of obscenity codes. Distributed to middle-school and high-school students at a GLSEN conference at Brookline High School, it discussed highly dangerous homosexual practices such as fisting and what homosexuals call "water sports." To be more specific, here's one quote: "There is little risk of STD infection and no risk of HIV infection from playing with pee." Massachusetts physician John Diggs commented that this book is "alarming, disheartening, and medically unethical." It is clear that one of the major themes of Romney's DPH (including the outreach programs it supports for homosexual adults) is how to have homosexual sex "safely," a philosophy that in reality endangers the health of its own citizens.
  Full report on Little Black Book
  
• After The Little Black Book attracted statewide and nationwide attention, Romney belatedly issued a statement that the book is "grossly inappropriate," but no DPH employees suffered any consequences, nor did this incident result in any restrictions on how the DPH spends its money. As usual, Romney's statement was just rhetoric.
• Romney's Director of the HIV/AIDS Bureau in the DPH, Kevin Cranston, is a long-time gay activist with no known medical training and was a co-founder of BAGLY (see above). Cranston fought compliance with the CDC's recommendation to track HIV-infected patients by name rather than anonymous ID numbers (as demanded by gay activists).
  - Bay Windows, 2/9/2006
• The above stories should be considered in light of the Boston Globe's report that Romney keeps a tight rein on his DPH.
  - Boston Globe, 9/10/2006

Romney opposed federal legislation that would stop public schools from promoting homosexuality

• When Romney was running against Sen. Ted Kennedy, Bay Windows asked him how he would have voted on an amendment to the Elementary and Secondary Education Act that would ban federal funds from public schools which are “encouraging or supporting homosexuality as a positive lifestyle alternative.” He answered:

  "I would have opposed that amendment. I don’t think the federal government has any business dictating to local school boards what their curriculum or practices should be. I think that’s a dangerous precedent in general. I would have opposed that. It also grossly misunderstands the gay community by insinuating that there’s an attempt to proselytize a gay lifestyle on the part of the gay community. I think it’s wrong-headed and unfortunate and hurts the party by being identified with the Republican party."
  - Bay Windows, 8/25/1994

Romney's Dept. of Social Services honors homosexual "married" couple as adoptive "Parents of the Year"

• The Massachusetts Department of Social Services (DSS), run by the Romney administration, honored a homosexual "married" couple (two men) as their adoptive "Parents of the Year" for 2006. The DSS has gained a reputation for being aggressively pro-homosexual over recent years. This incident sparked outrage across the country, but to our knowledge no policies or personnel at DSS were changed as a result.
  - Waltham Daily News Tribune, 8/4/2006

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