The Advocate (a gay news source):
Mitt Romney received his first endorsement from a group representing gay Americans when GOProud voted to support the presumptive Republican presidential nominee Tuesday night, saying that the businessman and former Massachusetts governor brings “the experience and expertise to turn this economy around.”
In a statement, the group for gay conservatives and their allies announced it had “enthusiastically,” but not unanimously, decided to back Romney despite his support for an amendment to the U.S. Constitution that would limit marriage to the union of one man and one woman.
“GOProud is prepared to commit significant resources to help make Mitt Romney the next President of the United States,” said Lisa De Pasquale, interim GOProud board chair and former CPAC director. The group plans to have a large presence at the Republican National Convention this September in Tampa, where it will hold the annual Homocon event.
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NOM:
I think we need to be on high alert for propaganda from this group. I also thank the GOP should have nothing to do with this group or their money. A wolf in sheep clothing is masking his true identity and intentions, that is to pray on the flock of sheep every time he can get a way with it... Believe it. NOM, this is how they get their foot in the door, one foot at a time before both foots are in the door to take over...Let us be forewarned!
NOMers, do share!
Just another tactic towards SSM and homosexuality acceptance...
I have always been concerned that the Establishment Republicans- and make no mistake, Mitt is the quintessential Establishment Republicans- would be prepared to throw us under the bus given the right set of political and financial circumstances.
Unfortunately, Mitt is all we've got and Obama simply must be defeated.
Since GoProud has endorsed Mitt, even though Mitty has signed the NOM marriage pledge, as far as I am concerned we should focus on getting a strong pro-marriage plank in the Republican Platform.
Now, if we see any signs of waffling on *that*, then it is well and truly time to make some very big noise.
The difference between GOProud and the liberal organizations is that GOProud believes that social issues should be decided via ballot initiative and not judicial nor legislative action.
Either way, the left doesn't care because in their eyes, anyone who supports a Republican is a self-loathing, sell out, and an Uncle Tom. Want to prove the left's intolerance? Support a Repblican and their fangs will show.
Republican*
Strange, I am a republican. Just look at these coments, y'all don't know whether to scratch your watch or wind your butt!
Zack
GOProud claims to support states deciding the issue of marriage (federalism) but do not support ballot initiatives.They also oppose the DOMA .
Rick, Zach I agree with your points on the subject, but I also think the GOP don't need GOProud to win the presidential election, in fact I know they don't. Of course the group can indorse whomever they want as citizens of the US, that does not mean the GOP should recognize it, in my view. We, the GOP, conservatives must take a stand on the issue of SSM or homosexuality without persuasion to comprise our deeply held values. Let these types of groups embrace the Democraps and see how far the Dems get..
Thanks AM @ 7, you're just reinforcing my points I've made already about GOPrd.
I'll keep out of the way and let you political minded chefs work on this soup.
But from where I stand, I've been smelling nothing but stink coming from Washington's kitchen for a long time. I don't know where its coming from, but it doesn't make me look forward to what they're going to feed us come dinner time.
@AM
I'm going off what their website says.
The reason GOProud has endorsed Romney is because he was a very pro-gay senatorial candidate and governor. Don't kid yourselves; Mitt is only "pro-marriage" because the GOP and many Democrats would bolt if his true colors showed.
That's why I will only vote for Romney if he takes Sen. Rick Santorum.
P.S. Can someone from the other side — or even our side — explain what the heck "gay pride" is?! I happen to be heterosexual, but do I say that I'm "proud" to be straight?
The reason GOProud has endorsed Romney is because he was a very pro-gay senatorial candidate and governor. Don't kid yourselves; Mitt is only "pro-marriage" because the GOP and many Democrats would bolt if his true colors showed.
That's why I will only vote for Romney if he takes Sen. Rick Santorum as his running mate.
P.S. Can someone from the other side — or even our side — explain what the heck "gay pride" is?! I happen to be heterosexual, but do I say that I'm "proud" to be straight?
Dovie,
It's because gays are not actually proud, but its important for them to tell themselves that. They know their strewed up but some of them don't know how to get help.
IT doesnt matter who they endorse. Every possible VP pick is pro traditional marriage.
Not so. Most Republicans are supportive of traditional marriage. But the vast majority don't care to do anything about it. For example, guys like Utah Sen. Mike Lee (contrasted with Sen. Hatch), who supports DOMA but wouldn't support an FMA.
What a strange collection of comments. I'm not surprised some would try and confuse me about my vote for future CIC Romney.
GoProud is the trojan horse of the homosexual agenda. They wink and nod to the homosexual agenda and should be called out for what they really are.
Here is GOProud's mission statement:
http://goproud.org/page.aspx?pid=349
Item #7 and #9 are relevant. Decide for yourselves.
@Thanks AM. But your making me loss my apatite.
For at this point in my grandmothers recipe, she says it is getting marriage as a man-woman union into the national constitution that is the most important thing to do.
Too late to gripe now. 1/2 of Republicans supported Romney, and the Evangelicals supported Santorum (even NOM did not play fairly with Gingrich who lost, but is now joining forces and campaigning for Romney). So, that's how elections play out.
GOProud is supporting Romney, and i think that is fine.
Those supportive of Romney by definition do not support NoBama. GoProud knows Romney has promised to support a US Constitutional Amendment defining marriage as natural marriage. Now is when Romney can admit GOproud into his campaign. GOproud has other rights to protect for their members and their interests. Romney will need to show good character to work with them, but not favor their interests.
I mean, NoBama has made the US all into small groups, all mad at each other. He plays one against the other as needed, hoping he can have some group to blame at every occasion. Don't fall for that strategy.
GOproud has no right to redefine marriage as they see fit. But they do have lots of discrimination coming for them, due to the way some other 'glad' associations have acted irrationally and hateful to to other groups.
GoProud will help Romney by softening up the matter after the IRS disclosed his donation to NOM. Gingrich is supportive of Romney, and that is good enough for me.
It's just Santorum who has the votes of the evangelicals and can balance Romney's cabinet someway.
With a Black pastor as head of the evangelical Baptist Bible Convention, Romney now needs to talk turkey with Santorum, or risk losing the election.
With a corrupt Attorney General, nObama is already counting the votes of dead people, and illegals, as his.
The constitutional amendment is certainly a necessity, but first things first.
We absolutely must defeat Obama and run the table on marriage this fall.
This having been accomplished, SCOTUS will defeat Perry and the DOMA challenges, and at that point we turn our attention to the necessary constitutional amendment.
Then it will be morning.
Dovie E. - Gay pride is about not being ashamed of being gay.
Why is there no heterosexual pride, because no one is ever raised being told that homosexuality is wrong. Especially for young kids this leaves a 'scare of shame' but when God reaches out to them and removes this scare, they become confident and proud of who they are.
This is why:
1) I will not be voting for Romney. (And, obviously, not for Obama either!)
2) Despite leaving the Democrats, I will not be joining the Republicans.
3) We need a strong pro-family values party, which currently doesn't exist.
And, BTW, what Dovie E. said about Romney's record is 100% true.
Carlos,
Did your parents tell you that you were heterosexual as a kid?
I don't recall my parents ever telling me I was a heterosexual, in fact I'm sure of it.
Dovie E., Carlos is participating in identity politics, he is just repeating the rhetoric of what he has heard from some media outlet, or from the fraudulent organization, the APA. Or, perhaps his psychologist. He is working on the premise there is a so-call gay gene.
Dovie E. - I came out after I graduated high school. It was challenging for me, because I felt really ashamed of myself for being gay. In college, I struggled with pride events. Aren't gay people just "rubbing there sexuality in other people's faces" at these events, I wondered.
Now that I'm older (28), I have a different interpretation of what gay pride means. I'm gay. I'm also a teacher, researcher, volunteer, brother, son, etc. I'm proud of myself *and* I'm gay, not *because* I'm gay. But it took me so long to get to this happy, healthy place, because when I was young I felt ashamed of myself *because* I was gay.
I think gay pride is more about moving past the feelings of guilt and shame that we experience as gay youth.
JIm,
The day that one label themselves gay in the homosexual sense, is the day that person become lost, spiritually and mentally. Your whole outlook on life is delusional and pretentious. The day your kind give guilt is the day you give up trying to truly help yourself and not caving in to those unhealthy desires. Jim, there is nothing healthy about homosexuality or living a lie. Pain taking is a process of healing. Using your logic, if a smoker who wants to stop smoking but finds it very heard to stop, should he continue smoking because he find pleasure in it, or should he seek help to stop what may kill him in the end?
@ 26 give up...
Leo - Being gay won't kill me. I'm physically active, educated, and employed. I have good credit and ambitious dreams. I'm happy most of the time, though sometimes work gets really frustrating or there is some family illness. My boyfriend is a huge resource in those less-than-happy times; his support and love are invaluable all the time, but especially those times.
I can't "give in to guilt" because it's no longer an emotion that weighs heavy on my soul. I've moved past feelings of guilt and shame, and now I focus my energy on improving the world around me through volunteer work (like teaching math to adults who dropped out of high school).
Please tell me why you think being gay is similar to being addicted to tobacco or other drugs, and why I should feel ashamed of myself and/or guilty.
Jim, the side of you that did not like the other side of you lost the internal battle, I hope you get that power of truth about who you really are, back. Or, get help!
Jim, you need to understand the power of guilt...
The power of guilt is not to belittle you as a human being, but a notice to, to change what you are doing. However, I am not talking about missed placed guilt, but I also don't mean you should overcome your guilt by continuing with the same behavior that triggered those feelings. Guilt onsets are meant to protect us not hurt us!
@Jim,
"Please tell me why you think being gay is similar to being addicted to tobacco or other drugs"
Becuase you are dependent upon an activity that is inconsistant with your very biology.
Addiction:
a state of physiological or psychological dependence on a potentially harmful drug
great interest in a particular thing to which a lot of time is devoted.
Jim:
Your choice, your life.
Marriage, however, will not be surrendered to your choice, since it is demonstrably at war with reality itself.
Good post Rick D.!
Leo - My parents did not tell me I was a homosexual, I told them I was attracted to men around the age I started becoming sexually mature, early teens.
Carlos: being attracted to men is not homosexuality. I also have men friends and i am not a so-called homosexual. 'Homosexual' is not a noun. Homosexuality is a behavior anyone can become interested in that behavior and its 'thrills' for one reason or another. Like it is thrilling to do something other people do not consider appropriate or risky - like parachuting. It not new that people like thrills. If a person gets interested in homosexuality, then, they start to 'feel' like they are 'one of them'. But the construct of a 'homosexual' has to be made, first. Maybe you are simply unable to handle women (not easy, that's for sure). If you are repelled by women (and some women i am happy to be repelled from), you would seek male companionship. Some people can't get along with either sex, so they get a pet, instead. Friendships are much easier to handle than the radioactive, atomic, sometimes explosive and sometimes hurtful type of man / woman relationship. It is a very competitive world that of friendship and romance.
But, i must say/write the phrase 'attracted to' is weird.
Attraction is bringing something towards you. 'Attracted to' doesn't make sense. 'Attracted by' would make sense (to me, at least). 'Attracted to' seems to include only YOUR sense that you become interested in the other person, even without their knowing it... Do i catch the drift?
It means the other person attracts you without even wanting to attract you?
I can understand a woman being attractive, or wanting to be. But i would say i was 'attracted BY' her, not that i consciously MADE or ALLOWED myself to feel attracted by her. She might not even notice - and it might just simply be a nice or beautiful or exotic person, nothing necessarily sexual.
Anyway, in Christianity, there's hope from thoughts that would enslave us to the point we find ourselves actually wanting/desiring to be enslaved more. That is called a vice. We all have them. It is natural.