Mitt Romney, my favorite presidential candidate has had a significant victory in Michigan. It’s important to qualify that he’s my favorite candidate if I thought he would do better than McCain against Clinton or Obama. I do not think that he would do better. His position on the major issues is closer to mine than the position of the other viable candidates.
He is unequivocally for a FMA and would like to have Roe vs. Wade overturned at the Supreme Court. He would no doubt nominate more objective judges for the courts.
There has been some contention regarding his position on civil unions, nevertheless I think he has stated his position clearly even if all do not agree with the compromise he made with the Massachusetts legislature. They note that in the Massachusetts legislature “. . . . 15 of that 22-member bloc [pro-marriage] broke away at the urging of Governor Mitt Romney and voted in favor of a proposed amendment that would ban gay marriage but create Vermont-style civil unions. Those 15 members provided the margin of victory, observers from both camps said yesterday after the measure passed by just five votes.... it was clear that the Republican governor had a major effect on the fracturing of the 22-member bloc....� http://massresistance.blogspot.com/2...il-unions.html.
But Romney stated in October of 2002: "Call me old fashioned, but I don't support gay marriage nor do I support civil union." Then, after the SJC decision legalizing same-sex marriage, he told WCVB on Dec. 17, 2003, that if he had to choose, he would favor civil unions over full-fledged gay marriage. However, he added: "But that is not my preference overall. My preference overall would be neither civil union or marriage."] http://www.boston.com/news/local/art...ns_draws_fire/.
Again in 2005 he said: “I'm going to want to see a marriage limited to a man and a woman. I don't want to see civil union either.
Of course, if we find ourselves in a setting where the only choice is between civil union and marriage, I will prefer civil union. But I would prefer neither.� http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9086489/.

I don’t think this position has changed since then. The Massachusetts effort to compromise seems to have been a strategic error and I do believe that in such important matters of principle one should not make any compromise. Both same-sex “marriage� and homosexual civil unions are unacceptable. But the other candidates are not offering anything better. As president he would not need to be making the compromise he thought he needed in Massachusetts and he may strongly support his real preferences.
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