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Mitt 'in the closet' re support of gay/abortion rights?
Posted: Wed Dec 13, 2006 2:43 pm
by _Rollo Tomasi
See link below for article about Mitt Romney's apparent inconsistency when it comes to gay and abortion rights. It sounds like he was pretty liberal on those issues when he ran for the Senate in 1994. Another interesting tidbit: Mitt's mother ran for the Senate in 1970 as an abortion
supporter. I wonder where she stood with regard to the Church's later anti-ERA campaign (during which the Church argued, among other things, that the ERA could lead to more abortions).
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061212/ap_ ... ial_issues
Posted: Wed Dec 13, 2006 5:45 pm
by _moksha
Perhaps his target audience changed?
Posted: Wed Dec 13, 2006 6:14 pm
by _Rollo Tomasi
moksha wrote:Perhaps his target audience changed?
Yup. Politics is great that way.
Re: Mitt 'in the closet' re support of gay/abortion rights?
Posted: Wed Dec 13, 2006 6:30 pm
by _Mercury
Rollo Tomasi wrote:See link below for article about Mitt Romney's apparent inconsistency when it comes to gay and abortion rights. It sounds like he was pretty liberal on those issues when he ran for the Senate in 1994. Another interesting tidbit: Mitt's mother ran for the Senate in 1970 as an abortion
supporter. I wonder where she stood with regard to the Church's later anti-ERA campaign (during which the Church argued, among other things, that the ERA could lead to more abortions).
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061212/ap_ ... ial_issues
Running in Massachusets probably spurred the need to take these stances I am assuming. It will certainly be a good way to show his motives and a bellweather on his platform to come.
But all that being said I don't think he'll make it past the convention.