Now Renna, I don’t believe you are an unloving person, but for saying I should be “grateful” that Romney tried to strip rights away from families is really down right incomprehensible.

First off, “the people” you refer to are the “over the top” religious kind, I was there, I saw them. We need to end the use of religion to justify bigotry and discrimination, not embrace it. The “majority” of Massachusetts citizens are fine with same-sex marriage The most recent Massachusetts poll, in April 2007; found that 56 percent of those surveyed would oppose the amendment. Romney wasn’t listening to “the people” he did this for higher political gain, that’s it (fact link #1 listed below)

I hope that if you had a son or daughter that was gay, in a long loving relationship with or without kids, that you Renna, would want them to have the same protections that you and your husband have/had. I would never want my child to have less rights then I…. I would die in order to protect them from the ones who got in the way, I hope you would too.

If you really feel strongly about marriage, you should look at doing something about the divorce rate, the US’s divorce rate is near 50%, while countries that allow same-sex couples to wed are considerably lower (I listed the facts below – link 2 & 3) – It’s also very ironic that the very state that allows same-sex marriage also is the one with the fewest divorces in the country (fact link #4)

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It will be helpful if you read a little more about Romney’s positions. Romney has always and still does support equal rights for all people (including gays). He made this statement in one of the debates. The difference is, he never supported gay marriage and fought long and hard against it. I was working in Boston during the time this controversy was happening. Romney did everything in his power to stop the marriage ruling in Mass.

I agree with Romney on this fact. No one should be discriminated against.
However marriage is NOT a right. Not everyone gets married even if they want to be married. There are many legal limitations on who can marry, including relatives and age.

I agree with Romney on this issue and I believe he has a complete understanding of the issues around it.

Johhny

First of all this is a private blog, we are not the government. We have the right to censor anything we want. Even so, we don’t do choose to do so, and never have done so - except once or twice with hecklers.

Your comments are not being censored. There are certain words that will cause the spam filter to hold comments in moderation until an admin can verify that they are indeed not spam, but a legitimate comment. Your’s was, and has been approved.

All citizens deserve “equal rights” regardless of their sexual orientation - Here it is in print, an actual flyer that his team passed out during a Boston Gay Pride Parade.

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=57786

http://youtube.com/watch?v=VAmCB0-E1GY

Please, you are not being censored. Our system tends to go haywire and sometimes even fails to post MY comments. Look, you have a different viewpoint and I support that and like that you do have a different viewpoint. I wish you were on my side, but you aren’t. I could present to you the facts about Governor Romney or any other candidate for that matter and in a perfect world, you would say “yeah, I like him he has done good’.

But, unfortunely, we don’t live in a perfect world and personal perception is above all the thing that chooses presidents. Now, I hear platitudes uttering from your posts. But, no citation. I beg of you my friend, please show me video or transcripts of Governor Romney saying what he is saying.

Rusty:

I do not believe he is trying to change our minds. But I am glad he is a critic of Mitt because I for one am tired of the lies surrounding Governor Romney. It’s always good to have a nice spirited debate.

As I said, we can present you facts and references to Governor Romney’s positions or governing style but you will not, even confronted with proof, support Governor Romney. Nonetheless, even if you do decide that the fallacies you say are false, then you might not even support him; and there is nothing wrong with that. I just wish that people like you, I refer in terms of disliking a candidate, spreading lies that simply aren’t true.

I commend you Johnny because you have the ability to come on a board and dispute Governor Romney’s record. We need more people like you Johnny, so we can show them how wrong and distorted the view of Governor Romney really is.

Kind Regards Johnny

You are wrong; Governor Romney has never wanted same sex couples to wed.

What has Governor Romney done? The only ‘flip’ he has done is on abortion; prove me wrong.

Rusty:
Let’s talk in private Bud - I’ll email you

Rusty, it is Romney who is dying by his own sword! Mitt was the bigot Govonor that tried desperately (in order to appeal to the national conservative base) to strip civil rights away from couples that wanted nothing more than to protect their love and assets. These are the same couple he supported a few years earlier.
Rusty you also write;
Haters and detractors have no business in our minds, and should only cause us to examine our own priorities and attitudes

Rusty I couldn’t agree with you more, I only wish you would see that the man you support is in that same category.