Day: May 14, 2012
Majority Backs Obama on Gay Marriage
51%
Of Americans say they approve of President Obama’s stance that same-sex couples should be allowed to marry legally, but 60% say that his shift in position will have no bearing on how they vote in the November election, according to a new USA Today/Gallup poll.
Rand Paul Says Another Mean Thing About the President
Call me cynical, but I didn’t think his views on marriage could get any gayer.
— Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), speaking at the Faith and Freedom Coalition meeting in Iowa, referring to President Obama.
Barbour: Romney’s Veep Not a Game-Changer
To pick a VP thinking it will be a game-changer is highly unlikely.
— Former Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour (R), in a CBS News interview, downplaying expectations for Mitt Romney’s running mate search.
GOP Bullying Flashback: In 1967, George W. Bush’s Fraternity Admitted to Using Red-Hot Clothes Hangers to Brand Its Pledges
Republicans have reacted to the Washington Post’s story last week that revealed that when Mitt Romney was a senior in prep school he bullied boys he perceived to be gay by claiming that the incident was just a youthful indiscretion and, besides, stories of physical abuse by boys do not always predict the character of the men they will grow up to be.
On the other hand, sometimes the stories are determinative. Take for example, this scandal from 1967 — two years after the Romney bullying episode took place — that arose after students at Yale complained that a fraternity was torturing its pledges. The frat’s president was George W. Bush, who, 40 years later, single-handedly turned the United States into a torture state:
Mitt Romney Woos Evangelicals As Mormons Baptize Deceased Evangelicals
Jerry Falwell, Jr. explained his reason for extending an invitation to Romney this year was because of Romney’s success in his business career. Ignoring theological differences with Mitt Romney’s Mormonism, Falwell said his father often preached that “Christians should vote for the candidate whose positions on the political issues are most closely aligned with their own…”
Apparently, Jerry Falwell, Jr. does not fully understand the full-fledged doctrinal hostility the Mormon religion has toward all biblically based Christian faiths. With the uttermost secrecy behind the walls of Mormon temples—and without the permission of the closest living next of kin — Mormons are baptizing deceased evangelicals and their deceased family members by proxy.
