Clear all the Way .....
Posted on 08/26/2007 2:54:35 PM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion
Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, who is running for the Republican presidential nomination, on Tuesday in an interview with Nevada television station KLAS said that if elected president he would allow individual states to keep abortion legal, the Washington Post reports.
Romney earlier this month in an interview with ABC News' George Stephanopoulos said he supports a constitutional amendment that would ban abortion nationwide. According to the Post, the "two very different statements" reflect a "challenge" for Romney as he attempts to be a "champion of the antiabortion movement".
In an interview with the Associated Press Tuesday, Romney said that giving states control to "fashion their own laws with regard to abortion" should be the "next step" in the abortion debate. Top Romney advisers on Tuesday said the governor supports a two-tiered process in which states first would obtain authority to regulate abortion after Roe v. Wade -- the 1973 U.S. Supreme Court case that effectively barred state abortion bans -- is overturned. The second step would be a constitutional amendment that bans most abortions nationwide.
James Bopp -- an attorney who has represented antiabortion groups and a top Romney adviser on abortion -- said, "There's no flip-flopping. There's no contradiction. There's simply step one and step two." Jon Ralston, a columnist for the Las Vegas Sun who interviewed Romney for KLAS, said he believes Romney's "moral positions conflict" with his "states'-rights opinions," adding, "I don't see how you can be antiabortion, be in favor of a constitutional amendment and be in favor of states' rights". [click to read whole article]
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and you’ve compared them ALL, so that you could make a universal claim??
posted on 08/26/2007 6:54:56 PM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion
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Hay Count,
I think he has a point, after all, his idea of good fruit would have to match yours for him to think the same as you.
So you want certain sciences be banned?? You to remember something this Government is a Secular Government. Meaning God doesn’t run this country.. People run this country and I don’t think we should impose God’s will on this country. I want a limited government and if it means allowing states to have abortions so be it.
How many wives did your older granddad have besides his 15 year old bride. THAT is the issue.
If Mitt was clearly pro-life, you would assume he
could make a clear statement in support of the unborn
and against abortion.
Instead, we now have three Mitt positions.
The double minded are unstable in all their ways.
Or is he simply confused? Or is the pressure
of campaigning confusing him?
How many women did Brigham Young “bed.” Are you arguing from a place that says Joseph Smith didn’t bed his wives so he was righteous. If so, then what Brig did was adultery, right?
One thing WE ARE ELECTING A COMMANDER IN CHIEF NOT A PASTOR IN CHIEF!!!! Read the Constitution.. You might learn something..
Now we are not going to elect someone based on what someones grandfather did??? Get a life.....
THE ARTICLES OF FAITH
OF THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS
1 We believe in God, the Eternal Father, and in His Son, Jesus Christ, and in the Holy Ghost.
2 We believe that men will be punished for their own sins, and not for Adam’s transgression.
3 We believe that through the Atonement of Christ, all mankind may be saved, by obedience to the laws and ordinances of the Gospel.
4 We believe that the first principles and ordinances of the Gospel are: first, Faith in the Lord Jesus Christ; second, Repentance; third, Baptism by immersion for the remission of sins; fourth, Laying on of hands for the gift of the Holy Ghost.
5 We believe that a man must be called of God, by prophecy, and by the laying on of hands by those who are in authority, to preach the Gospel and administer in the ordinances thereof.
6 We believe in the same organization that existed in the Primitive Church, namely, apostles, prophets, pastors, teachers, evangelists, and so forth.
7 We believe in the gift of tongues, prophecy, revelation, visions, healing, interpretation of tongues, and so forth.
8 We believe the Bible to be the word of God as far as it is translated correctly; we also believe the Book of Mormon to be the word of God.
9 We believe all that God has revealed, all that He does now reveal, and we believe that He will yet reveal many great and important things pertaining to the Kingdom of God.
10 We believe in the literal gathering of Israel and in the restoration of the Ten Tribes; that Zion (the New Jerusalem) will be built upon the American continent; that Christ will reign personally upon the earth; and, that the earth will be renewed and receive its paradisiacal glory.
11 We claim the privilege of worshiping Almighty God according to the dictates of our own conscience, and allow all men the same privilege, let them worship how, where, or what they may.
12 We believe in being subject to kings, presidents, rulers, and magistrates, in obeying, honoring, and sustaining the law.
13 We believe in being honest, true, chaste, benevolent, virtuous, and in doing good to all men; indeed, we may say that we follow the admonition of Paul—We believe all things, we hope all things, we have endured many things, and hope to be able to endure all things. If there is anything virtuous, lovely, or of good report or praiseworthy, we seek after these things.
What he needs is a good Saul experience. There is no denying the power of God. Things of the spirit always win out over debates of the mind.
The anti Mormons think that they can just quote our doctrine and we will simply run the other way, aghast and amazed. They don’t understand the power of the Holy Ghost as a personal witness to the soul.
Nice flourish, ‘you might learn something.’ Mercy but the discourse at FR has dragged down the mental age of some of the Mitt patrol. Kevin, you’re too old for playground taunting, aren’t you? Now me, well, I’m so darned old I can return to it.
As someone exercising Constitutional rights for free
speech and planning to exercise my right to vote, I
know exactly what the Constitution says. Thanks.
So only Christians can be President????
Mormonism lies and distorts its history. A POTUS who can’t see through it is dangerous. The rest of you poor folk....well, I pray for you often.
Welcome to the ‘family’ proud! It’s the greatest decision you ever could have made.
Since you believe that God set our course in this life before he created us and that we cannot change anything we do because God already has our lives preset, why do you try so hard to change God’s will (according to your chart) and make me a non-Mormon against his will?
That sounds precisely like a, a, a creed. I thought you guys were against creeds.
“I think it’s your single mission in life.”
MHGinTN is a missionary? There’s nothing wrong with that, is there?
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