Activist: More Revelations About Romney Will Bring Conservative Fallout
by Jim Brown
January 4, 2007
(AgapePress) - - A pro-family activist predicts that with every new revelation about the liberal record of now-former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney, there will be more conservative legislators dropping from his bandwagon.
On the same day he finished his term as governor of Massachusetts, Romney has filed papers creating a presidential exploratory committee. At first glance, says Associated Press, the 59-year-old Mormon might appear to have an advantage with the GOP's conservative religious base -- but many evangelicals do not believe Mormons are Christians.
In addition, some religious conservatives also question the depth of Romney's opposition to homosexual "marriage" and abortion, since he espoused more liberal views in the past. For example, while challenging Senator Ted Kennedy in 1994, Romney -- in a letter to a pro-homosexual Republican group -- promised that he would be a stronger advocate for homosexuals than would Kennedy.
For that reason and others, reports the Christian Broadcasting Network, there are at least four GOP lawmakers from the Michigan State House that are "seriously rethinking" their support for Romney's 2008 presidential bid. Gary Glenn, president of the American Family Association of Michigan, says given Romney is a Michigan native -- and that his father, George Romney, was governor and ran briefly for the GOP presidential nomination in 1968 -- he should have a competitive advantage in the state, unless social conservatives learn about his record.
"[T]his is a politician who for decades insistently promoted Roe v. Wade and a woman's right to choose to terminate her pre-natal child's life," Glenn points out, adding that Governor Romney was once endorsed by Republicans for Choice, a pro-abortion faction within the GOP.
And the questionable endorsements did not stop there, notes the Michigan activist. Romney, he says, has "endorsed every element of the homosexual activists' agenda -- [and] at some point in his career he was endorsed twice by the homosexual Log Cabin Republicans." Glenn also points out that the potential GOP presidential candidate also backed Bill Clinton's "don't ask, don't tell" policy for homosexuals in the military, and supported homosexual troop leaders in the Boy Scouts.
"There are going to be more and more pro-family legislators who had bought the Romney campaign's line of being supportive of our values, and that's proven not to be the case in terms of his record," says the AFA of Michigan president. "I think you're going to have more and more people in Michigan -- and beyond -- disassociate themselves from this campaign."
Glenn, who says it is sheer audacity for Romney to portray himself as a social conservative who only in his late 50s discovered his "core values," might also question Romney's motivation recently in lobbying Massachusetts legislators to vote in favor of putting a marriage amendment initiative on the 2008 state ballot. The governor called this week's vote on the proposal "a victory for democracy" when 62 lawmakers approved it. The measure must be approved again by at least 50 legislators in the next session of the state House and Senate before it makes it to the ballot.
Jim Brown, a regular contributor to AgapePress, is a reporter for American Family Radio News, which can be heard online.
