Saturday, September 08, 2007

GLBTube #10

Candidates on GLBT Rights: Then and Now

This is the second installment of a short series on each of the presidential candidates. The first episode was on Barack Obama. Today's is on Mitt Romney.

The New York Times had an interesting profile on Romney's political evolution. Click on the graphic below to read some of Romney's quotes. Perhaps most interesting is that Romney once promised to not campaign against marriage equality. Now, in an effort to burnish his conservative credentials, he speaks against marriage equality more than any other candidate.





Then:



Now:








It seems that Romney's unfortunate conversion to dark side is just as troubling to many conservatives as it is to us.

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