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Romney: I "Prevented Massachusetts From Becoming The Las Vegas Of Gay Marriage"

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WASHINGTON, D.C.—Republican front-runner Mitt Romney fired up the base at the Conservative Political Action Conference with a sharp turn to the right to appeal to social conservative wing of his party.

"We fought hard and prevented Massachusetts from becoming the Las Vegas of gay marriage," the former governor of Massachusetts told the crowd to resounding applause.

Romney added that he vetoed a bill that would have allowed young women to access the so-called "morning after pill" and other emergency contraception, and said he fought to promote abstinence-only education in his state. He also restated his support for the Defense of Marriage Act.

"I will ensure that organizations like Planned Parenthood get no more federal support," he said later.

The social conservative emphasis is a new addition to Romney's public speeches, and is a response to the conservative Sen. Rick Santorum's rise in the poll. Santorum has tried to make social issues a more central component of the Republican race for the presidency, and he appears to have succeeded.

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  • Cassandra T.   Romney: I "Prevented Massachuset... and thinks it’s Ew & Fail  about 3 months ago
  • marissawillak thinks Romney: I "Prevented Massachuset... is Fail  about 3 months ago
  • Little T thinks Romney: I "Prevented Massachuset... is Trashy & Fail  about 3 months ago
  • Marriage is way more than sex, but all these Republicans retards seem to focus on is the fact that two men or two women are engaging in coitus.
    I often hear the feeble minded among us say, “well two men or two women cannot have children, so that is a valid reason why it is against God's will for them to get married.”
    Yeah, that might make sense in a retard's universe, but they fail to take into account, that a heterosexual married couple where one of the member is infertile, be it the man or the woman, cannot create children either.
    So there goes that part of their idiot logic flushed down the toilet.  Anyone who is against gay marriage needs to get a life.

    sage
    3 months ago
  • Romney: I “Prevented Massachusetts From Becoming The Salt Lake City Of Polygamy”. No, wait. Wrong audience.

    Bill C.
    3 months ago
  • Bill C. thinks Romney: I "Prevented Massachuset... is Fail  about 3 months ago
  • shell52383 thinks Romney: I "Prevented Massachusetts Fr... is Fail & Trashy  about 3 months ago
  • kestinp thinks Romney: I "Prevented Massachusetts Fr... is WTF, Trashy & Fail  about 3 months ago
  • KillJoy   Romney: I "Prevented Massachusetts Fr... and thinks it’s Fail & Ew  about 3 months ago
  • Sophia Walker - The Last Goddess thinks Romney: I "Prevented Massachusetts Fr... is Fail  about 3 months ago
  • brandont6 thinks Romney: I "Prevented Massachusetts Fr... is OMG & Fail  about 3 months ago
  • CharlesEastwest   Romney: I "Prevented Massachusetts Fr...  about 3 months ago
  • What a bunch of, and I mean this from the bottom of my heart, assholes.

    CharlesEastwest
    3 months ago
  • Rubber band Romney will stretch to the right to get the nomination and then try to snap back to the middle for the general. And yes, Obama did the same, but this just seems more virulent and hateful.

    therblig
    3 months ago
  • newu282 thinks Romney: I "Prevented Massachusetts Fr... is Trashy  about 3 months ago
  • This country is in the shitter!!!

    whiteinkdesigns
    3 months ago
  • Romney forgot to mention that he “prevented MA from becoming the Vegas of gay marriage” by enforcing the infamous “1913 Law” that was passed against mixed-race couples. He also forgot to mention that the second he was out of MA the law was repealed….And even then MA still didn't become the “Vegas of gay marriage.”

    ragaragaraga
    3 months ago
  • evelynb27 thinks Romney: I "Prevented Massachusetts Fr... is Fail  about 3 months ago
  • jamesallenj thinks Romney: I "Prevented Massachusetts Fr... is WTF, Cute & OMG  about 3 months ago
  • Tappar thinks Romney: I "Prevented Massachusetts Fr... is Trashy  about 3 months ago
  • “Romney added that he vetoed a bill that would have allowed young women to access the so-called “morning after pill” and other emergency contraception, and said he fought to promote abstinence-only education in his state. He also restated his support for the Defense of Marriage Act.” So basically, you're saying he's satan himself. Next up: he murders puppies.

    Diana
    3 months ago
  • So that was him?!

    spacecataz
    3 months ago
  • samb19 thinks Romney: I "Prevented Massachusetts Fr... is Fail  about 3 months ago
  • Alibug thinks Romney: I "Prevented Massachusetts Fr... is Fail & WTF  about 3 months ago
  • ryethebread thinks Romney: I "Prevented Massachusetts Fr... is Fail  about 3 months ago
  • billpostmus thinks Romney: I "Prevented Massachusetts Fr... is Fail & OMG  about 3 months ago

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