Romney Bombs at Values Voters Summit

Here's a good report on Romney's poor performance at the Values Voters Summit in D.C. last weekend. Despite his failure to move the audience and his poor showing in their straw poll (coming in 3rd after Mike Pence and Mike Huckabee), we predict he will forge ahead and dump millions into the the race. It will be interesting to watch whether National Review, Tony Perkins (Family Research Council), and other establishment "conservatives" support him this time around.

In addition to his weakness on conservative social issues, Fischer highlights the horrible RomneyCare health plan he foisted on this state, with its $50 abortions. (And please, conservatives, remember that the supposedly conservative Heritage Foundation had a hand in devising Romney's mandated coverage health plan!)

Much more on Romney to come. Stay tuned.

Mitt Romney is toast
by Bryan Fischer @ Renew America (Sept. 21, 2010)


I just returned from the Values Voter Summit in Washington, D.C., and the main takeaway is this: Mitt Romney is toast.

Tony Perkins and FRC Action were entirely right to invite Romney to speak. (AFA Action was a co-sponsor of the event.) Romney is eager to court the pro-family community, and deserved the opportunity to persuade values-driven voters of his bona fides. In this task he failed.

While one conservative leader after another — Mike Huckabee, Michelle Bachmann, Mike Pence, and Jim DeMint to name a few — rang the chimes on the importance of keeping social issues at the heart of the conservative agenda, Mr. Romney managed only one passing reference to the sanctity of life and sanctity of marriage.

On top of that, Romney's speech came across as plastic, forced, and stilted. He was the only speaker of the weekend to use a teleprompter, and at times tried to be more of a stand-up comic than a political leader. He seemed to be working to get a Las Vegas lounge act instead of a seat in the Oval Office. While other conservative speakers spoke from the heart, he spoke from a script.

But it is his glaring weaknesses on social issues that will doom his chances for electoral success in 2012. He was given the feature slot at the Values Voter Summit, the last spot on the Friday morning slate, and his speech fell flatter than the proverbial pancake. Response was polite but tepid.  ... more...

Boston Globe and Emerson College Pushing Propaganda Play “Laramie Project”

Back in 2007, we assembled background info on the horrid propaganda play, “The Laramie Project.” Performed at high schools and colleges around the country, it uses raw emotion and lies to draw youth into the sexual-radical “rights” cause. The recruitment efforts never let up.  

So we’re not surprised to see “Laramie” being pushed again by Arts Emerson and the Boston Globe this week. They’re even exploiting the Governor’s daughter as a “panelist”. Emerson faculty are working with the sexual-radical groups GLAD, GLAAD, PFLAG, GLSEN, Matthew Shepard Foundation, Human Rights Campaign, and Boston’s “Theater Offensive” (“ambitious programming [on] the cutting edge of queer culture and politics”) to promote their ideology and sense of victimhood, and encourage everyone to “take action against hate”:

The moderator will be former ABC news anchor and current Leader-in-Residence in Emerson College’s Journalism Department Carole Simpson. "It is my pleasure to moderate a panel exploring the plight of the LBGT communities," said Simpson.  "Their problems of discrimination, physical abuse and exclusion have been overlooked too long.  The issues need to come 'out of the closet' into the light of public understanding. I hope I can facilitate that.  I lost a close relative to AIDS.  Through him I learned firsthand the difficulties he had by being 'different.'"

From the Boston Globe:

ArtsEmerson’s “The Laramie Residency’’ includes panel discussions and Tectonic Theater Project’s “The Laramie Project’’ and “The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later.’’ Tonight’s discussion, “The Struggle for GLBT Rights and Protections,’’ focuses on the Shepard/Byrd Hate Crimes Prevention Act, civil rights, and the impact on awareness because of “The Laramie Project.’’ Panelists include activist Katherine Patrick (Governor Deval Patrick’s daughter).

See our background study on “The Laramie Project” here.

Sen. Scott Brown Donated to Social Extremist RINO Candidate

Sen. Scott Brown gave $100 to social extremist RINO candidate for State Rep., Dan Winslow.

Winslow received the endorsement of the Massachusetts GLBT lobbying group, and that’s about as extreme as one can get. Winslow is even moving to embrace “transgender rights” demands.

Brown and Winslow have been friends since college and law school, and Winslow played a major role in his Senate campaign. But this is not about friendship. It’s about principles.

We’d hoped that Brown would be conservative across the board. He was a fairly reliable pro-family vote while in the Mass. legislature (though not pro-life).

Winslow looks like a qualified candidate unless you know the back story. It was Winslow who, as Gov. Mitt Romney’s Chief Legal Counsel, advised that marriage licenses be changed in May 2004 to allow same-sex couples to “marry”. He (and his boss Romney) changed the licenses without legislative authorization to read “Party A” and “Party B” instead of “bride” and “groom”. Winslow conducted the training sessions for town clerks and Justices of the Peace, threatening any who objected on religious or principled grounds that they would be fired or fined. Winslow and Romney unconstitutionally made law. The Supreme Judicial Court had not even told the Executive branch to do anything. (And the Legislature never has changed the statute to allow same-sex marriages.)

We hope that Sen. Brown does not agree with Winslow that DOMA should be overturned, that homosexual “rights” should be extended in all realms (including the military), and that there is a case to be made for “transgender rights”.

If Sen. Brown does agree with Winslow, why doesn’t he just go ahead and give an interview to the homosexual newspaper Bay Windows? They’ve been after him for months. Why hold back? 

"Party A" and "Party B"

[photo: Neil Contractor, Bay Windows]

Romney's Pro-"Gay Rights" Legal Counsel Endorsed by Radical GLBT Lobby

The GLBT lobby – including its transgender members – have just unanimously endorsed former Gov. Mitt Romney’s Chief Legal Counsel for State Representative. That would be Daniel Winslow, Esq.

We always knew that Romney’s legal staff was really working for “gay rights” while pretending to just enforce the “law” (the unconstitutional Goodridge marriage Court ruling). It was Winslow who himself made law (with the Governor’s assent), changing the marriage licenses in May 2004 – without the required Legislative authorization – to read “Party A & Party B” instead of “Bride & Groom”. Unbelievable.

 

For those new to MassResistance, we’ve pointed out since 2004 that same-sex marriage is still not legal in Massachusetts. The marriage statute still reads “man/woman”, and the GLBT lobby can’t get their bill allowing marriage “regardless of gender” to a vote (as confirmed by Winslow). The Court told the Legislature (not Winslow and Romney) to make that change, but they never have!

Winslow’s website makes no mention of social issues. (He’s right in line with the state Republican establishment on that!) He does show off his old bike in a sappy nod to the Scott Brown truck.

That’s all we need: another RINO in the State House! Our old friend, Tom Lang (another RINO) at KnowThyNeighbor.org had a long conversation with Winslow at the Mass. Gay & Lesbian (& Tranny) Political Caucus meeting recently:

Massachusetts Gay Lobby Endorses Mitt Romney's Attorney for 2010 House Seat

The Massachusetts Gay and Lesbian Political Caucus (MGLPC), the Leading LGBT Lobby Organization and Key Architect for the Strategy Securing Marriage Equality, Has Endorsed Republican Daniel Winslow (9th Norfolk) And Former Mitt Romney's Chief Legal Counsel Over Democrat Challenger Stanley Nacewicz For the Massachusetts House of Representatives

Led by Co-Chair Arline Isaacson, the MGLPC voted unanimously in last week's annual meeting to endorse the Republican, Daniel Winslow over his Democratic challenger, Stan Nacewicz for the Massachusetts House Seat representing the 9th Norfolk District in Fall 2010. This District seat was formerly held by Richard Ross (R) [who marched in Boston Pride this year] who vacated it when he succesfully ran for Scott Brown's (R) Massachusetts Senate Seat after Brown's historic victory took him to Washington, DC.

Arline Isaacson touted Republican Dan Winslow for his support of The Goodridge Decision, his zero tolerance of hate crimes and told the Caucus gathering, "Winslow is what we need," in terms of a Republican that understands LGBT issues.  Isaacson also gave a bit of insight into Winslow's history as the Romney attorney that changed our state's marriage license wording from "Bride and Groom" to "Party A and Party B" …

But what was interesting was that Isaacson provided the Caucus with Winslow's answers to her standard nine topic questionnaire on civil rights issues that all candidates are given.  Dan Winslow answered "Yes" to all subjects ranging from Gay and Lesbian Civil Rights to HIV Funding to Opposition of DOMA to Choice except one...the Transgender Civil Rights and Hate Crimes Bill. …

So what does KnowThyNeighbor [Tom Lang] think about this?  I interviewed Dan Winslow extensively after the Caucus endorsement meeting.  On the subject of Marriage Equality post Goodridge, Winslow says that Massachusetts needs legal updates.  Winslow told me that during the Romney days many within the administration insisted that MA marriage licenses continue to read "Bride and Groom" as, according to Winslow, some wanted same gender couples to "have to decide which would be the bride and which would be the groom" or in other words force same-sex couples to humiliate themselves.  Winslow was the one who pushed the "Party A/Party B" nomenclature as one of respect and dignity for same sex couples and a general equality for all parties entering into marriage.  Winslow wanted to make me understand that he has 3 important legal changes to state laws post Goodridge that to him are of the utmost urgency.  One, changes to current birth certificates which would recognize same sex couples.  Two, the inclusion of "civil unions" and "domestic partnerships" as impediments to MA marriages (currently, two people of the same gender could be married to one another in MA while being part of a dom partnership in Washington State to another person).  And Three, that MA courts must retain the jurisdiction of divorce when it comes to our same-sex marriages. … [emphasis in original]

(Read the complete post here.)

Winslow is even moving towards supporting the Transgender Rights bill. Now that’s what we call extreme. (We thought the Republican Party didn’t want to associate with “extremists”.)  

Why do these guys have an R next to their name? They’re really fifth columnists, working to undermine traditional values from within the Republican Party.

What more is needed than this to prove that Mitt Romney was actively working for “gay rights” while Governor? He surely understood his Chief Counsel’s bias, and most likely, shared it. Lots more on that soon.

Meanwhile, Romney has the gall to continue to present himself to the gullible conservatives attending Family Research Council’s “Values Voters” conference in D.C. this weekend. “Protect Marriage” and “Champion Life”!!! Yeah, right.

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P.S. Dan Winslow commented on Tom Lang's post on 9/17:

Dan Winslow said...

Many thanks Tom. Just to clarify, the "bride/groom" discussion refers to others outside the administration who were lobbying me against changing the form. I was not referring to conversations within the administration. This endorsement means a lot to me personally and I am proud to have the support of Democrats as well as Independents and Republicans on these issues as well. We need to work together to move forward.

Returning in the Fall

Don't worry ... back in September!

Elena Kagan: Open Advocate for Radical GLBT Causes at Harvard

Another gem from the Harvard Crimson archives: Obama's latest Supreme Court nominee, Elena Kagan, participated in a "milestone" event in September 2003. As the new Dean of the Harvard Law School, she attended the school's first GLBT alumni reunion dinner. (Note the inclusion of "transgender" -- even in 2003.) Kagan is an alumna of HLS, Class of 1986.



Her presence at the least shows that as Dean she believed in the validity of homosexual and transgender identity-group demands, which these GLBT alumni push within the legal profession and judicial system, promoting their sexual radical goals. 



The Harvard Crimson described the event:

Celebratory at times, solemn at others, alumni and current students marked the anniversary Saturday with anecdotes about the personal challenges they faced, the battle they continue to fight to keep military recruiters off campus and the need for classroom instruction in legal issues pertaining to homosexuality. 



During the second discussion, titled "Lambda Today: Current Issues and Challenges Facing GLBT Students at HLS," a student panel expressed their dissatisfaction with the efforts that the faculty and administration are making to address issues facing GLBT students. They highlighted the University’s decision to continue to allow military recruiters on campus, even though their presence violates Harvard’s non-discrimination policy... 

As the reunion’s final event, a dinner held at the Hyatt Regency hotel, HLS Dean Elena Kagan renewed her commitment to improving student life for all students on campus ... 

[“HLS Holds Nation’s First Ever GLBT Reunion,” 9-22-03.]

Within a month, Kagan was agreeing with the demand made by the GLBT radical students at that reunion: banning military recruiters on campus. 
In October 2003, Kagan appeared at a conference held by Lambda, the GLBT group at the Law School. The Harvard Law Record reported:

. . . much of what Kagan said was a recital of her personal abhorrence for the military discriminatory policy. She said, "I am committed to working with Lambda and others . . . on making progress for the elimination of" discriminatory policies in the military. . .

Kagan's public statement was in fact her welcoming remarks for the two-day Lambda conference, titled: "Solomon's Minefield: Military Discrimination after Lawrence and the Coming Fight over Forced On-Campus Recruiting."



Some years later (in September 2008), she was a major participant at the 25th reunion of the Harvard Gay and Lesbian Caucus, titled “A Celebration of LGBT Life at Harvard."

She was Moderator for their panel discussion on "The State of the Law: Reflections on the Past Twenty-Five Years and Thoughts about the Future -- A discussion of LGBT legal developments and trends by leading legal scholars." Also in that panel discussion was recent Obama appointee (and noted lesbian activist) Chai Feldblum.




The HGLC group’s banner says it’s dedicated to “Organizing, Serving, and Advocating for the Harvard Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Community” -- which is exactly what Kagan was doing when she appeared at their 25^th anniversary function. She is an open advocate for a highly controversial and radical cause. 

For more on why it matters whether Kagan may herself be a lesbian – or even just committed to the sexual radical causes -- see J. Matt Barber, “Kagan a lesbian? Why it matters” (WorldNetDaily, 5-20-10).

Obama Administration Overrun with Sexual Radicals

It’s no secret that the Obama administration is full of socialists, communists, Alinskyites, globalists, multiculturalists, environmentalists, and sexual radicals.

But look at this brag list from the Gay and Lesbian Leadership Institute to see just how many GLBT radicals hold influential positions.  They wouldn’t be on this list unless they brought their sexual revolutionary viewpoints onto the job each day. “Safe Schools Czar” Kevin Jennings has a lot of company.

From GLLI’s website:

Help President Obama lead the nation.

The Gay & Lesbian Leadership Institute is leading a community-wide effort to identify strong LGBT candidates to serve in the Obama administration. The Presidential Appointments Project serves as the talent bank for openly LGBT professionals ...
While Barack Obama lays out a broad agenda to move the country forward, his staff is actually undertaking the hard work of implementation. Appointed officials have the power to set or influence the policies of the many federal departments and administrative agencies that make up the executive branch of government.... 

[“The Gay & Lesbian Leadership Institute is organizing the project, along with multiple partner organizations. Project partners include Federal GLOBE, GLAD, Human Rights Campaign, Lambda Legal, National Center for Transgender Equality, National Stonewall Democrats, Out & Equal, NBJC, NGLCC, NOGLSTP, Pride at Work, SAGE, Servicemembers Legal Defense Network, The Council for Global Equality, The Gay & Lesbian Task Force.”]

As of now, the following LGBT leaders have secured spots in the Obama administration:

Mark Agrast- Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Office of Legislative Affairs at the Department of Justice

Raul Alvillar- Congressional Relations Officer, Housing and Urban Development

Judy Applebaum- Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Office of Legislative Affairs at the Department of Justice

Cynthia Attwood- Member, Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission

Vic Basile- Senior Counselor to the Director, Office of Personnel Management

Anthony Bernal- Scheduler, Office of Dr. Jill Biden

Jeremy Bernard- Director of White House and Congressional Affairs, National Endowment for the Humanities

John Berry- Director, Office of Personnel Management

Jeremy Bishop- Special Assistant to the Secretary, Office of Public Engagement at the Department of Labor

Brian Bond- Deputy Director, White House Office of Public Engagement

Raphael Bostic- Assistant Secretary for Policy Development and Research, Housing and Urban Development

Ebs Burnough- Deputy Social Secretary, Office of the First Lady

Michael Camunez- Assistant Secretary for Market Access and Compliance, Department of Commerce

Lyle Canceko- Deputy Director, Center for Faith Based and Neighborhood Partnerships, Department of Commerce

Jamison Citron- Confidential Assistant, Office of White House Liaison, Department of Health and Human Services

Brook Colangelo- Chief Information Officer, White House Office of Administration

John Connor- Director, Office of White House Liaison at the Department of Commerce

John Coppola- Member of the National Museum and Library Services Board

Jeffrey Crowley- Director, Office of National AIDS Policy

Fred Davie- Member, President’s Advisory Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships

Justin DeJong- Deputy Press Secretary, Department of Agriculture

Marisa Demeo- Associate Judge, DC Superior Court

Jenny Durkan- U.S. Attorney, Western District of Washington

John Easton- Director, Institute of Education Sciences

Eric Fanning- Deputy Under Secretary of the Navy

Chai Feldblum- Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

Carl Fillichio- Senior Advisor to the Secretary of Labor for Public Affairs and Communications

Daniel Gordon- Administrator for Federal Procurement Policy, OMB

Kathy Greenlee- Assistant Secretary, Administration on Aging, Department of Health and Human Services

Steve Gunderson- Member, President’s Commission on White House Fellows

David Hansell- Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Children and Families, Administration for Children and Families

Emily Hewitt- Chief Justice, U.S. Court of Federal Claims

Jennifer Ho- Deputy Director, Accountability Management at the U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness

Fred Hochberg- Chairman, U.S. Export-Import Bank

David Huebner- U.S. Ambassador to New Zealand

Glenda Humiston- State Director for Rural Development in California

Shin Inouye- Director, Specialty Media

John Isa- Deputy Executive Director, Federal Office of Compliance

Karine Jean-Pierre- Regional Director, Office of Political Affairs

Kevin Jennings- Deputy Assistant Secretary, Office of Safe and Drug-Free Schools

Kristina Johnson- Under Secretary, Department of Energy

Jenn Jones- Special Assistant, Department of Housing and Urban Development

Elaine Kaplan- General Counsel, Office of Personnel Management

Brad Kiley- Director, White House Office of Management and Administration

Harry Knox- Member, President’s Advisory Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships

Kei Koizumi- Assistant Director for Federal Research and Development, Office of Science and Technology Policy

Andy Lee- Chief of Staff, Office of Innovation and Improvement at the Department of Education

Jeffrey Lerner- Regional Director, Office of Political Affairs

Sara Lipscomb- General Counsel, Small Business Administration

Zach Liscow- Staff Economist, Council of Economic Advisers

Thomas Lopach- Senior Vice President, Congressional Affairs, U.S. Export-Import Bank

Sharon Lubinski- U.S. Marshall

John Marble- Public Affairs Specialist, Office of Personnel Management

Jeffrey Marburg-Goodman- Special Counsel to the USAID Administrator

Mercedes Marquez- Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and Development, Department of Housing and Urban Development

Kathy Martinez- Assistant Secretary for Disability Employment Policy, Department of Labor

Michael Martinez- Special Assistant, National Resources Conservation Division, USDA

Mary Beth Maxwell- Senior Advisor, Department of Labor

Philip McNamara- Executive Secretary, U.S. Department of Homeland Security

David Medina- Deputy Chief of Staff, Office of the First Lady

David Mills- Assistant Secretary for Export Enforcement, Department of Commerce

Alison Nathan- Associate Counsel to the President, White House Counsels Office

Jeffrey Neal- Chief Human Capital Officer, U.S. Department of Homeland Security

Ven Neralla- Director of Priority Placement, Presidential Personnel

Dave Noble- White House Liaison, National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Matt Nosanchuk- Senior Counselor to the Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights, Department of Justice

Dylan Orr- Special Assistant to the Assistant Secretary of Labor, Office of Disability Employment Policy

Joseph Palacios- Board of Visitors for WHINSEC

Paolo Palugod- Special Assistant to the Assistant Attorney General for the Environment and Natural Resources Division, DOJ

Peter Pappas- Chief Communications Officer for the United States Patent and Trademark Office, Department of Commerce

Raul Perea-Henze- Assistant Secretary of Policy and Planning, Department of Veterans Affairs

Drew Perraut- Policy Analyst, Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, OMB

Mark Perriello- Director of Priority Placement, Presidential Personnel

Gautam Raghavan- Deputy White House Liaison at the Department of Defense

Peter Roehrig- Special Assistant, Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy

Constance L. Rogers- Deputy Solicitor for Energy and Mineral Resources at Interior

Donna Ryu- U.S. Magistrate Judge for the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Ellie Sue Schafer- Director, White House Visitors Office

Tarak Shah- White House Council on Environmental Quality

Amanda Simpson- Senior Technical Advisor to the Department of Commerce, Bureau of Industry and Security

Richard Sorian- Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs, HHS

Campbell Spencer- Regional Director, Office of Political Affairs

Everette Stubbs- Deputy Director, White House Visitors Center

Nancy Sutley- Chair, White House Council on Environmental Quality

Jonathan Swain- Assistant Administrator, Small Business Administration

Kenneth Tolson- Member, President’s Board of Advisors on Historically Black Colleges and Universities

Moe Vela- Director of Operations, Office of the Vice President

Alex Wagner- Special Assistant to the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Global Strategic Affairs

Douglas B. Wilson- Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs, Department of Defense

William Woolston- Staff Economist, Council of Economic Advisers