If you go back and read what you just posted..you will understand Romney's real agenda and why the gay republicans are pushing for him. As far as him being a Mormon..well, if he can lie about other things..why not that as well? MINO?
I've spent enough time dealing with homosexuals to know that with some exceptions, promiscuity is normal, sometimes even after “marriages” or “commitment ceremonies” or “civil unions.”
The potential for blackmail is tremendous. Also, the visceral hatred for conservative Christians in much of the homosexual community isn't just “potential” but all too real. They don't want to be “judged” by people who believe their lifestyle is immoral.
As for the Romneys being “Mormons in Name Only,” I'm from Michigan and had very limited firsthand as well as more extensive secondhand contact with members of the extended Romney family (not Mitt Romney). It is exceedingly unlikely that any of the Romneys today would recognize my name — Mitt Romney's father would have known some people in my family, but I'm all but certain nobody in the current Romney family would. My list of friends and acquaintances, however, once included people who were in the Romney's circles, though I've had no personal contact, even secondhand, for about two decades.
People change over time and I understand that, but based on what I know from reliable secondhand reports, the consensus in the 1970s and 1980s was that the Romneys were straight arrows who, unlike many in the Republican Party before the rise of the Christian conservative movement, generally believed in private what they said in public about personal morality. I had no reason to pay attention to the Romney family in the 1990s since I was focusing on church issues, not secular politics, but I don't know anyone in Michigan Republican politics who was circulating private doubts about their sincere commitment to and practice of their Mormon beliefs.
The big problem, as I see it, is that Mormons in the upper levels of business have a reputation for hard work and strict honesty, but they have compartmentalized their faith to the extent that they can say, “This is what I personally believe but I won't impose it on anyone else.”
That can make sincerely committed Mormons into useful tools for the Republican RINO elite in ways that conservative evangelicals are not. On many moral issues, they believe the right things, say the right things, and in their personal lives do the right things, but unlike those in the Christian conservative movement, many not be committed to implementing their beliefs in the public sphere.
That makes Mitt Romney's flip-flopping on abortion doubly dangerous. I'm guessing that he probably **DOES** believe abortion is wrong and would try hard to keep a fellow Mormon from getting an abortion. But would he “impose his faith” on non-Mormons? Would he nominate a Supreme Court justice who believes abortion is murder and therefore a fundamental violation of the Constitution? Based on past history, I think the answer is obvious that Romney can't be trusted on abortion.
The Roman Catholic Church, to their credit, has made quite clear that you can't be a faithful Catholic and be “pro-choice” in your votes while being pro-life in your personal beliefs. That's not true with the Mormons.
I'm not going to tell the Mormons how to run their church, but I sure wish they'd get a new “revelation” rejecting the way Romney and others have bifurcated their political and personal lives.