WASHINGTON, Sept. 27, 2007
Romney: Dems Wrong On Sex Ed
Says Democrats Should Have Rejected Teaching Gay Issues To 2nd Graders During Debate
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Presidential hopeful and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, smiles as he answers a reporters question during a stop at an IHOP in Sacramento, Calif., Thursday, September 27, 2007. (AP)
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"Last night's debate was just the latest example of how out of touch the Democratic presidential candidates are with the American people," Romney said in a statement released by his campaign. "Not one candidate was uncomfortable with young children learning about same-sex marriage in the second grade."
"This is a subject that should be left to parents, not public school teachers," he said.
The Democrats were asked during a debate Wednesday night whether they would be comfortable with having a story about same-sex marriage read to their children as part of their school curriculum, as a second-grade teacher did last year in Lexington, Mass.
The top-tier Democratic candidates — Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York and Barack Obama of Illinois and John Edwards — generally said they favor teaching children tolerance for others, including gays and lesbians. They did not expressly embrace or reject including the same-sex marriage as part of a second-grade curriculum.
Edwards, who has a 9-year-old daughter and 7-year-old son, said he wants his children "to understand everything about the difficulties that gay and lesbian couples are faced with every day," but added that teaching such issues might be "a little tough."
Obama, who has daughters ages 6 and 9, said his wife has discussed same-sex marriage with their children and urged them "not to be afraid of people who are different."
Clinton said, "With respect to your individual children, that is such a matter of parental discretion ..."
In July, Romney criticized Obama for supporting age-appropriate sex education for children as young as kindergartners.
While governor of Massachusetts, Romney funded abstinence education over family planning and abortion services. But in 2002, he also checked "yes" in a Planned Parenthood questionnaire that asked: "Do you support the teaching of responsible, age-appropriate, factually accurate health and sexuality education, including information about both abstinence and contraception, in public schools?"
Romney opposes same-sex marriage. He has been questioned about his record on gay rights. Romney challenged Democratic Sen. Edward Kennedy in 1994, and in a letter he promised a gay Republican group he would be a stronger advocate for gays than his rival.
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- Teachers should not teach children about marriage because marriage is unnatural! Do you see wolves wearing wedding rings? No. Do you see Bears wearing wedding rings. No. Monkeys, dogs, dolphins, ants . . . No, no, no, no!
So stop teaching about this abomination we call "marriage"! It''''s unnatural.
Posted by socrates392 at 03:36 PM : Sep 28, 2007
Now your being flip. True, marriage is a man-made institution. However, there are some animal species that mate for life. The killer whale, the grey wolf and others that have a monogamous, heterosexual lifestyle - Reply to this comment
- Quote from testimony of victim in the recent Warren Jeffs (Mormon) Rape trial: %u201CThe woman testified that FLDS (Mormon) girls receive no information about their bodies or reproduction. She said she didn''''t even know *** was the means by which women conceived.%u201D
If this is true then Romney, evidently, would rather have girls learn these thing AFTER marriage.
Posted by jn122736 at 06:09 PM : Sep 27, 2007
Romney is from the LDS church not the FLDS church. The FLDS splinter group formed when the church abandoned its polygamist ways so Utah could get statehood. I think they also believe that the prophet should be a direct descendant of Joseph Smith. - Reply to this comment
- Wonder why condumism feels so unloved?
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Posted by screen_ident at 04:57 PM : Sep 27, 2007
He''s just a used prophylactic - Reply to this comment
- Cons get their "values" and "talking points" from the hateful FOX "News", from Rush-to-hatred Limbaugh, from Vile O''''''''Reilly, et.al. The ONLY unifying idea of the GOP is the hatred of Bill (and now, Hilary) Clinton! Oh yeah, and they hate foreigners and they hate the French and they hate Muslims and they hate black people and they hate homosexuals and they hate "liberals" and they hate anyone who dares to suggest that they might be wrong about anything-- They hate everybody! They are the supreme HATERS!
Posted by ConDumism at 04:56 PM : Sep 27, 2007
I guess I am the ultimate hater, I hate all humans.
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- IOWEIGN -- my bad, that post below should have just been addressed to pwrslm who seems to be obsessed with homosexuality.
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- pwrslm & IOWEIGN -- I''m curious to know how it is that you both know so much about homosexuality. Seems you''re intimately familiar with it, no? I do wonder what causes one to have a tendency to know so much about a certain subject. Perhaps Larry Craig can tell us.
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- Teachers should not teach children about marriage because marriage is unnatural! Do you see wolves wearing wedding rings? No. Do you see Bears wearing wedding rings. No. Monkeys, dogs, dolphins, ants . . . No, no, no, no!
So stop teaching about this abomination we call "marriage"! It''s unnatural. - Reply to this comment
- BULL!! This isn''''''''t about who sleeps with who or who disagrees with who and you know it. This is about POLITICIANS who are SO hypocritical they will USE Religion and exploit those who are so simple minded and stupid they actually FEAR these people who aren''''''''t going to harm them in any way
Posted by MCVet
OH BULL. Homosexual activism preys on those whose ignorance and fear will support them.
You sure dont bounce the ball to well, sodomy was rejected by our forefather, thier forefathers, and thier forefathers before them. Making it sound like romance between two sexually dysfunctional people is a just cause in society only masks the truth about it.
Our Secs organs were made for reproduction. NOTHING to do with sodomy should be introduced into the educational system under *** education. The ONLY thing that we should teach our children is how filthy and dangerous it is.
Or do you think its a truely healthy lifestyle?
Posted by pwrslm at 07:56 AM : Sep 28, 2007
Is this Dr. Ruth ???? - Reply to this comment
- WHats a peckkker fer?
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