The following press release is from the organization Jews and Christians Together. Hat-tip Mission America. Oh, and if you like the Illinois GOP, the home of U.S. Senator Mark Kirk and state Treasurer Dan Rutherford, you’ll love Mitt Romney!
OHIO ROBOS HIT ROMNEY ON GAY ISSUES
Columbus, OH (MMD Newswire) March 5, 2012 — One day before Ohio’s delegate-rich GOP presidential primary election, Super Tuesday’s biggest prize, national frontrunner Mitt Romney is getting hit hard on his gay rights record with millions of robo-calls, emails and videos. Aiming for Republicans as well as registered Democrats, who are free to cross over to vote in the GOP contest, an ecumenical group of Jews and Christians supporting Romney’s rival, Rick Santorum, released the robo-call script this morning. It reads:
“Hi, my name is Brian Camenker; I’m a Jew from Massachusetts.
“And, this is Darcy Brandon; I’m a Christian from California. If you believe as we do that marriage and sexuality should only be between a man and a woman, please help us stop Mitt Romney.
“As Governor, Romney signed ‘Gay Youth Pride Day’ proclamations, promoted homosexuality in our elementary schools, and unconstitutionally ordered state officals to make Massachusetts America’s first same-sex marriage state. Romney supports open homosexuality in the military, the appointment of homosexual judges, and the ENDA law, making it illegal to fire a man who wears a dress and high heels to work, even if he’s your kid’s teacher. When you vote tomorrow, please vote for social sanity and Rick Santorum, NOT for homosexuality and Mitt Romney.
“Rick Santorum is the ONLY candidate who can be trusted to uphold traditional marriage, a straight military, and the rights of American children to have both a mother and a father. This message paid for by Jews and Christians Together.org and not authorized by any candidate. To get the facts before you vote, visit Jews and Christians Together.org.”
That website, urging Ohio voters to “get the shocking facts on Mitt Romney,” links to a page called “The Romney Files”. That page, identical to email content blasted to over a million Ohio residents on Sunday, documents Romney’s progressive record on gay issues, a record that may be problematic for the former Massachusetts governor in more conservative Super Tuesday states like Ohio, Georgia and Tennessee. “The Romney Files”, assembled by the Boston-based group Mass Resistance, show a gubernatorial proclamation Romney signed declaring “Gay Youth Pride Week”; a video comparison of RomneyCare to ObamaCare, two similar approaches to socialized medicine; a Planned Parenthood questionnaire Romney signed in favor of publicly-subsidized abortion, abortion drugs and contraceptives; and a claim that “Romney’s wife Ann personally donated to Planned Parenthood!” That page links to a more in-depth “Mitt Romney Report” full of details that trouble GOP conservatives trying to select their presidential nominee.
Brian Camenker, president of Mass Resistance and compiler of much of that Romney research and one of the robo-call voices said, “Mitt Romney would be the most liberal Republican ever nominated for the Presidency. Romney is so far left, he spoke against the right of the Boy Scouts to screen-out homosexuals. Mitt Romney proved during the January 8 Meet the Press debate that he’s still as far left on the gay agenda as always. He proudly announced, ‘a member of my cabinet was gay. I appointed people to the bench regardless of their sexual orientation.’ Asked when he last stood up and spoke out for increasing gay rights, Romney said ‘Right now.'”
Dr. Gary Cass, president of DefendChristians.org and a member of Jews & Christians Together.org said, “We believe Rick Santorum is the only viable alternative to Romney. All Jews and Christians are aware that the Bible, from the Jewish Books of Moses to the Christian Gospels to the epistles of Saint Paul, commands God’s faithful to love the sinner but hate the sin, and indeed to recognize homosexuality as sin. Romney, on the other hand, endorses homosexuality as a good choice for young people.”
Cass said that he supports Santorum, the former Pennsylvania Senator, because last year Santorum signed The Marriage Vow, a political pledge document from Iowa also embraced by Texas Gov. Rick Perry and U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) last year. That eventually earned Santorum a narrow victory in Iowa and the endorsement of conservative radio personality Dr. James Dobson and other evangelicals. Santorum, said Cass, “courageously put his name to some very bold, very Judeo-Christian, and extremely politically-incorrect statements about marriage and sexuality.” Santorum’s pro-marriage vow:
– Recognizes “the overwhelming statistical evidence that married people enjoy better health, better sex, longer lives,
greater financial stability, and that children raised by a mother and a father together experience better learning, less
addiction, less legal trouble, and less extramarital pregnancy;”
– Rejects “anti-scientific bias which holds, in complete absence of empirical proof, that non-heterosexual inclinations are genetically determined, irresistible and akin to innate traits like race, gender and eye color;”
– Rejects “anti-scientific bias which holds, against all empirical evidence, that homosexual behavior in particular, and sexual promiscuity in general, optimizes individual or public health;”
– Contains a pledge of “Personal fidelity to my spouse” and “Respect for the marital bonds of others” which Gingrich, Cain, Romney and Ron Paul declined to sign, but which Bachmann and Perry joined Santorum in signing.
Cass, an ordained Presbyterian minister, said, “Rick Santorum signed the Iowa vow last summer while Romney was calling for more gay hiring.” Another link at Jews & Christians Together.org connects to a voter guide from Family Research Council that shows Romney in support of ENDA, the proposed federal Employment Non-Discrimination Act “that adds sexual orientation as a protected class.” Camenker, the Jewish Romney opponent from Massachusetts, said ENDA “would forbid the firing of transvestite elementary school teachers, open bisexuals, and other bad examples to America’s young people.”
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