Romney's Support for Homosexual
Agenda Incompatible With Pro-Family Support
CHICAGO, December 26,
/Christian Newswire/ -- Peter LaBarbera, longtime pro-family
advocate and founder of the Republicans For Family Values website,
is calling on pro-family leaders who have endorsed Mitt Romney to
withdraw their support for his candidacy in light of his recent
comments on NBC's "Meet the Press" supporting pro-homosexual "sexual
orientation" state laws.
"Mitt Romney's
Christmas present to the homosexual lobby disqualifies him as a
pro-family leader," LaBarbera said. "Laws that treat homosexuality
as a civil right are being used to promote homosexual 'marriage,'
same-sex adoption and pro-homosexuality indoctrination of
schoolchildren. These same laws pose a direct threat to the freedom
of faith-minded citizens and organizations to act on their religious
belief that homosexual behavior is wrong.
"Romney may have had
a late conversion on abortion, but it appears his ninth-inning
flip-flop on homosexuality is falling short due to his strong
commitment to 'gay rights,'" LaBarbera said. (See the 'Mitt
Romney Deception' report) "Now some pro-family leaders –– who
have raised millions of dollars over the years opposing 'gay'
activism –– will need to explain how they can go on supporting an
openly pro-homosexual-agenda candidate."
LaBarbera said it is
"inconceivable after Massachusetts' twin disasters involving
homosexual 'marriage' and homosexual adoption that Romney now is
recommending pro-homosexual 'orientation' laws –– long derided as
"special rights" among social conservatives — to the rest of the
nation.
"In Romney's own
state of Massachusetts, the state 'sexual orientation'
nondiscrimination law laid the groundwork for homosexual activists'
campaign to legalize 'same-sex marriage' –– which then-Gov. Romney
brought to fruition with his unnecessary and illegal directive
granting marriage licenses to homosexual partners," LaBarbera said.
"The same pro-gay state law also forced Boston's Catholic Charities
to
shut down its century-old adoption agency because it would not
pledge to place children in homosexual-led households against
Catholic teaching.
"Given Romney's
extensive pro-homosexual record and willingness now to depart from
principle on this crucial issue, should we trust a 'President
Romney' not to reverse course again on federal pro-homosexual laws
such as 'Hate Crimes' and ENDA (Employment Nondiscrimination Act)?"
LaBarbera said.
The following is
excerpted from Romney's "Meet
the Press" interview December 16 with Tim Russert:
MR. RUSSERT: You said [in 1994] that you
would sponsor [Sen. Ted Kennedy's federal] Employment
Nondiscrimination Act. Do you still support it?
GOV. ROMNEY: At the state level. I think
it makes sense at the state level for states to put in provision of
this.
MR. RUSSERT: Now, you said you would
sponsor it at the federal level.
GOV. ROMNEY: I would not support at the
federal level, and I changed in that regard because I think that
policy makes more sense to be evaluated or to be implemented at the
state level.
