FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: April 11, 2012
Contact: Anath Hartmann or Elizabeth Ray (703-683-5004)
“We hope our endorsement will help focus social conservatives on the need to defeat President Obama.” —Brian Brown, NOM president—
Washington, D.C. — The National Organization for Marriage (NOM) today announced its endorsement of Mitt Romney for President of the United States. NOM said it was making the endorsement to help focus social conservatives on the need to defeat President Obama in November.
“We are proud to endorse Mitt Romney for President,” said Brian Brown, NOM’s president. “Governor Romney was an early signer of NOM’s presidential pledge which represents his commitment to the nation to take specific actions as president to preserve and protect marriage as the union of one man and one woman.”
Three of the final four Republican candidates for president had signed NOM’s pledge, leaving only Ron Paul as the lone candidate refusing to pledge to defend traditional marriage. NOM’s endorsement of Romney comes on the heels of Rick Santorum suspending his presidential campaign.
“Now is the time for all people who recognize the importance of marriage to come together to support a true champion, Mitt Romney, against an incumbent who has done virtually everything in his power to undermine the institution of marriage,” Brown said. “President Obama has declared our nation’s marriage laws to be unconstitutional and not only has refused to defend them, his administration is actively working to repeal them in the courts. He’s come out against state constitutional amendments defining marriage as the union of one man and one woman. And he has appointed leaders of the same-sex ‘marriage’ movement as national co-chairs of his reelection campaign. Incredibly, Obama still apparently claims to personally support traditional marriage. With friends like President Obama, the institution of marriage doesn’t need enemies.”
NOM’s marriage pledge commits Governor Romney to a variety of actions upon his election as president. These include:
- Supporting an amendment to the United States Constitution defining marriage as the union of one man and one woman;
- Appointing Supreme Court Justices and an Attorney General who will apply the original meaning of the Constitution;
- Vigorously defending the federal Defense of Marriage Act in court;
- Establishing a presidential commission on religious liberty; and
- Advancing legislation to return to the people of the District of Columbia their right to vote on marriage.
“It’s been a hard-fought campaign and we congratulate all the candidates who signed our pledge. Now we look forward to coalescing millions of Americans who passionately believe as we do that God is the author of marriage and that marriage as the union of one man and one woman serves the public good,” Brown said. “We will devote ourselves fully to helping elect a president who will fight for marriage, rather than the incumbent who seems bent on destroying it.”
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22 Comments
In the New York Times today NOM was quoted as saying President Obama “has done virtually everything in his power to undermine the institution of marriage.”
The President has modeled a strong African-American marriage and family from Day One. That's actually one of the best supports of marriage I can imagine. Please keep an open mind and avoid hyperbole.
"endorsement of Romney comes on the heels of Rick Santorum suspending his presidential campaign."
NOM joins the long list of empassioned Romney supports who boldly state "well...if Romney is the only remaining candidate I suppose we will support him then I guess."
@Micah -
Yeah, I suppose that if the President had really done virtually everything possible to undermine marriage, he would have gotten a divorce. What are you smokin'?
I will say this in Obama's defense: He has on occasion spoken about the importance of fathers stepping up for their families in the Black American communities. It was one of the things that made me vote for him. But he doesn't say it much these days because his base seems to hate the notion of fathers staying with moms.
Resist,
What actions, specifically, has Obama's base taken to make you 100% sure they believe fathers shouldn't stay with moms?
DKC -
I said "seems to."
Obama's base is essentially socialist; they want the government to take care of everyone, create large government programs, and do it on the backs of taxpayers.
The biggest obstacle to governmental domination is the traditional family which promotes independence, self-sufficiency and freedom freedom government. Destroy the notion that dads should stay with moms and you create a whole new underclass dependent on the government: single moms and their children.
Indeed, Resist. It's appalling that we have government programs that don't allow a father to be with his family. These programs have done so much damage to the family. And for what? To assure dependency on Nanny? It's sickening. The traditional family is the enemy of the nanny state, for the reasons you mentioned.
Who is Obama's base, pray tell? Is it the majority of voting Americans, the ones who got him elected?
Bryce,
The majority of voting Americans in a given year changes each cycle. In 2008 full thirty million evangelical Christians did not vote because they could not support either candidate in good conscience. Obama has spent the last 3.5 years reminding these voters how wrong they were not to show up.
Keep in mind that Obama won by roughly ten million votes in 2008; also keep in mind that the majority of Independents that went for Obama in 2008 are polling at just over 58% opposed.
Yes, Barb, it's sickening. Once of the saddest things is how these program have harmed marriage in Black urban communities. As we know, African Americans are ardent supporters of marriage, but the government has fostered an environment where fathers have little incentive to stay with moms; and single moms, getting that check from the government, have less of a need - but not less desire - for the fathers to stay with them.
70% of AA births in this country are out-of-wedlock. 40% overall. Millions of children deprived of a moms and dads because the government fosters a culture that discourages marriage.
How do your minority partnerships feel about your efforts to make Barack Obama a one-term president?
Will they be joining you in replacing Obama with the uber-white, uber-rich, uber-Mormon Mitt Romney?
Does this indicate a change in position for NOM on the issue of polygamy?
Wasn't it Martin Luther King who said it wasn't the color of your skin but the content of your character that mattered Scott?
Resist, one thing I used to like about President Obama was that he seemed to have a genuine concern about involving more fathers in their children's lives. He would talk about this subject on a number of occasions. You're not the only one who noticed that he has been silent on fatherlessness for a few years. Geraldo Rivera expressed bewilderment about the silence on an episode of the O'Reilly Factor about a month or so ago.
My guess is that if Obama were to talk about fatherlessness, he would displease the gay lobby. After all, any talk of the benefits of responsible fathering is bound to be viewed as "bigoted" and "stigmatizing" towards children raised by same-sex female coupes (not to mention radical feminists and single mothers). Let's hope we don't reach a point where most government officials don't do anything meaningful to promote fatherhood due to concerns about being labeled "bigoted."
The gay lobby is the only plausible explanation I can find for why the president has abandoned his speaking on fatherhood. If anyone would like to provide an alternative explanation, please do!
Bad move, NOM. At least Maggie set up her own web page to support Santorum. It is not because Romney is a self professed Mormon. It is because Romney is a practical liar. Sorry to say that, but look at the evidence. So he signed a pledge. So what? In essence you are disavowing Gingrich, who also signed NOM's pledge. Where is you pledge to fairness NOM?
Where is your pledge to fairness?
The Republican Party is simply hopeless.
Faced with the opportunity to nominate somebody who could actually be able to politically attack Obama on his most vulnerable flank, they instead nominate the guy who invented Romneycare.
Nice job.
McCain all over again.
It worked so well last time......
Well Romney. You weren't my number one choice... wish Newt Gingrich were getting the nomination, but I will support you.
Let's take back the senate and the white house.
Go Romney! I hope he does all he's said he'd do.
TC,
I'm sorry to inform you that you walked right into the MLK quote as planned. See, you don't see homosexuals for the content of their character. All you see is that they're homosexual and base all of your judgments on that one thing. You may experience a lack of appetite for the next few days as you have engorged all of your own words, quite a gutfull at that.
DKC... I can see why you think I'm engorged, you keep putting words in my mouth! No worries. I spit them out.
I don't care what you do in your bedroom. Not a bit. Whatever makes you happy-- It's between you and your own conscience.
You and I may not agree, but that's ok. I haven't found a friend yet that agrees with me on everything.
Hey that Ann Romney is a keeper. I saw the twitter fight tonight over her on Drudge. Obama ought to be ashamed of himself for hauling around with those kind of advisors trying to tear women down.
Scott Wooledge,post-1890 Mormon leaders are known for their extremely long monogamous marriages rather than for polygamy.
That's true, Louise E. "Mormons" believe that marriage is both for time (meaning mortality), and also for eternity (meaning "forever"). And that's a looooooong time.