Mitt Romney speaking at the Liberty University Commencement
Mitt Romney's commencement speech Saturday focused largely on the theme of faith, family, hard work, and service at Liberty University. He also addressed the emerging same-sex issue before a crowd of students in lieu of President Obama's announcement that he supports same-sex marriage between homosexuals. Romney said marriage is a "relationship between one man and one woman." That remark drew a thunderous applause for the likely GOP presidential candidate who faced a big test amongst evangelical voters. The Lynchburg, Va. based school founded by the late Jerry Falwell teaches that sex out of wedlock and homosexuality are sins. Romney, who's a Mormon, delivered the speech in the heart of "conservative" Virginia. He's trying to court evangelical voters, who are skeptical of Romney because of his past positions on abortion as well that he's a Mormon. As governor of Massachussets, he presided over the state where the state Supreme Court said that gay couples couldn't be denied the right to marry. I've heard it stated by Jim Sumpter a few years ago that the Massachusetts Supreme Court stated that denying gay couples the right to marry was unconstitutional the way it was written. Sumpter said that Romney was given a primer to change the wording so it would be clear that homosexuals couples couldn't marry. Romney said to let it stand the way it is. That's what I've heard.
Mitt Romney certainly has a credibility gap among Christian conservatives in the GOP considering his flip-flopping on abortion and his supporting certain types of rights for homosexuals such as allowing states to give same-sex couples certain domestic partnership benefits such as adoption. To read the full story click on the above link from FoxNews.com.
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