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Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney on Friday backed away from his support of adoptions by gay couples, saying that he simply acknowledges the legality of such adoptions in many states.
A day earlier, Romney, in an interview with Fox News host Neil Cavuto, had indicated that while he does not support same-sex marriage, he considers the adoption of children by gay couples a right.
He said on Thursday: And if two people of the same gender want to live together, want to have a loving relationship, or even to adopt a child in my state, individuals of the same sex were able to adopt children. In my view, thats something that people have a right to do. But to call that 'marriage' is something that, in my view, is a departure from the real meaning of that word.
On Friday,he was asked, in an interview with CBS affiliate WBTV in Charlotte, N.C., how his opposition to gay marriage squared with his support for gay adoptions. Romney told anchor Paul Cameron, Well, actually I think all states but one allow gay adoption, so thats a position which has been decided by most of the state legislatures, including the one in my state some time ago. So I simply acknowledge the fact that gay adoption is legal in all states but one.
http://news.yahoo.com/romney-backs-away-gay-adoptions-183344202.html
jp11
(2,104 posts)cali
(114,904 posts)tomorrow and he's being counseled to not ignore social issues and fire up the evangelicals.
What a contemptible little person he is.
targetpractice
(4,919 posts)I'll bet the Obama camp let Biden loose knowing about the forthcoming Washington Post article and Romney gig at Liberty University. It think Biden's "apology" is merely for cover.
cali
(114,904 posts)It's not even legal in half the states.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gay_adoption#United_States
Skinner
(63,645 posts)doc03
(35,295 posts)for POTUS.
danbeee46
(53 posts)..that's a new record --- lie # 1,543.
aint_no_life_nowhere
(21,925 posts)at one time or another.
Eugene
(61,809 posts)Watch for his position to change again real soon.
He didn't back far enough from same-sex adoptions
to satisfy the Repub base he's trying to pander to.
deacon
(5,967 posts)bluestate10
(10,942 posts)Are they insane???? What will we do as a nation when a tough decision has to be made and the gutless person named Mitt Romney is the only person that can make it?