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发信人: kaleege (隆冬盖), 信区: QueerNews
标 题: Romney抵赖，否认2002年试图参加gay pride
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Tue Jan 10 13:49:50 2012, 美东)
网上放出了Romney 2002年为gay pride做的宣传画
不过Romney矢口否认，说不知道这画从哪来的。
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/08/republican-debate-mitt
CONCORD, NH -- Mitt Romney's presidential campaign on Sunday disavowed a
flyer that claimed he supported "equal rights" for gay citizens and has long
been reported to have been distributed by the Massachusetts Republican
during his 2002 campaign for governor.
Eric Fehrnstrom, Romney's chief spokesman, told The Huffington Post that the
flyers were not official literature from Romney's 2002 run, despite the
fact that they include the tag line "Paid for by the Romney for Governor
Committee," on the bottom.
"I don't know where those pink flyers came from. I was the communications
director on the 2002 campaign. I don't know who distributed them ... I never
saw them and I was the communications director," Fehrnstrom said in the
spin room after Sunday morning's GOP presidential debate here.
Fehrnstrom said he had no idea who had distributed the flyers. "I never saw
them and I never approved them. I'm not quite sure where they came from."
Romney's critics have pointed to the flyer, reportedly disseminated during a
gay pride parade in 2002, as evidence that he once presented himself to
voters as tolerant of gay rights, on some level. It was referenced
repeatedly during Romney's first run for president in 2008 and was again
raised on Sunday, when Romney was asked during the debate to clarify his
position on same-sex marriage.
"As you know, I don't discriminate," Romney said. "And in the appointments
that I made -- when I was governor of Massachusetts, a member of my cabinet
was gay. I appointed people to the bench, regardless of their sexual
orientation. Made it very clear that, in my view, we should not discriminate
in hiring policies, in legal policies.
"At the same time, from the very beginning, in 1994, I said to the gay
community, 'I do not favor same-sex marriage,'" Romney added. "I oppose same
-sex marriage. And that has been my, my view. But, but if, if people are
looking for someone who -- who will discriminate against gays or will in any
way -- try and suggest that people, that, that have different sexual
orientation don't have full rights in this country, they won't find that in
me."
As the New Hampshire primary election has drawn near, the focus has somewhat
unexpectedly shifted to cultural issues, with candidates being pressed on
everything from marriage rights to contraception during two consecutive
debates. All oppose same-sex marriage -- though some object on more moral
grounds than others -- and only former Utah Gov. John Huntsman has said he
supports civil unions. But Romney, owing to his time in Massachusetts, has
found his position more difficult to explain than most.
"[H]e has not been in favor of civil unions, if by civil unions you mean the
equivalency to marriage but without the name marriage," Fehrnstrom said. "
What he has favored, and he talked about this, I believe, last night, was a
form of domestic partnership or a contractual relationship with reciprocal
benefits." |
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