News
2007-05-12
Romney cites
Scriptures on same-sex marriage
Republican
presidential candidate Mitt Romney is defending his
opposition to same-sex marriage by citing the
Scriptures.
Republican
presidential candidate Mitt Romney is defending his
opposition to same-sex marriage by citing the
Scriptures.
The former
Massachusetts governor, who in his 1994 Senate bid pledged
to be a more effective champion for gay causes than
his Democratic rival, discussed marriage
equality in an interview set to air Sunday on
CBS's 60 Minutes.
''This isn't just
some temporary convenience here on Earth, but we're
people that are designed to live together as male and
female, and we're gonna have families,'' he tells
interviewer Mike Wallace, according to an excerpt CBS
released Friday. ''And that…there's a great line in
the Bible that children are an inheritance of the
Lord, and happy is he who has or hath his quiver full
of them.''
Romney, seeking
to become the first Mormon president, also tries to allay
any concerns about his religion.
''What's at the
heart of my faith is a belief that there's a creator,
that we're all children of the same God, and that,
fundamentally, the relationship you have with your
spouse is important and eternal,'' Romney said over
the course of two interviews, one of which was taped at his
vacation home in Wolfeboro, N.H.
Meanwhile, Romney
also is on the cover of the latest edition of Time
magazine.
In its main story
Time writes, ''The closest he has ever come to
a personal religious crisis, he recalls, was when he
was in college and considering whether to go off on a
mission, as his grandfather, father, and brother had
done.... He says he also felt guilty about the draft
deferment he would get for it, when other young men his
age were heading for Vietnam.''
Romney offered a
slightly different tale during an interview with the
Boston Herald during his 1994 U.S. Senate
campaign.
''I didn't go on
a mission to avoid the draft,'' Romney said at the time.
''I never asked my dad [Michigan governor George Romney] in
any way to be involved with the draft board."
''Romney,
however, acknowledged he did not have any desire to serve in
the military during his college and missionary days,
especially after he married and became a father,'' the
newspaper wrote. '' 'I was not planning on signing up
for the military,' he said. It was not my desire to go
off and serve in Vietnam, but nor did I take any actions to
remove myself from the pool of young men who were
eligible for the draft. If drafted, I would have been
happy to serve, and if I didn't get drafted, I was
happy to be with my wife and new child.' '' (Glen Johnson,
AP)
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