Grading the GOP on Family Value Issues
They are definitely marching to different drummers!
Wonder where the GOP Presidential candidates stand on family issues?
Campaign for Children and Families (who neither support nor oppose candidates for public office) provide us with the Report Card on the Natural Family to inform voters where the leading Republican presidential candidates stand on eight topics important to most Americans.
“While all of the leading Republican candidates claim to embrace family values, they’re marching to different drummers on marriage rights, adoption, religious freedom, ‘hate crime’ laws, schoolchildren, and the ‘LGBT’ agenda,” said CCF President Randy Thomasson.
Thomasson tells us that they are looking only at the Republican candidates and explains why. “According to the Human Rights Campaign, the leading Democratic candidates have already established records or made consistent statements in support of nearly all of the homosexual, bisexual, and transsexual agenda,” explains Thomasson, a registered independent, whose non-partisan organization will compare candidates from both major parties later this year.
To grade the Report Card on the Natural Family, presidential candidates’ positions were taken from published votes, policies, and public statements and documents. No coordination was done with any candidate or supporting campaign. For scoring purposes, the greatest weight was given to actual votes, actions and policies, rather than to contemporary statements that differ from past policies or statements or contradict previous actions.
The results for each candidate are as follows:
Guiliani supports only one family issue: he opposed teaching schoolchildren to support homosexuality. Huckabee is the strongest candidate in supporting family issues, as he has: protected marriage and marriage rights, opposed civil unions and domestic partnerships, opposed homosexual couples adopting children, is opposed to forcing private businesses to support homosexuality, and refused to support "Gay Pride Day". Ronald Paul came in second, supporting five of the seven issues, McCain and Thompson tied for third place, and Romney tied with Guiliani for last place.
For details on how each candidate scored, you can view the chart here. This is what I expected based on the information that I have read on the candidate's positions and learned about them through TV, radio, and the Internet.
Wonder where the GOP Presidential candidates stand on family issues?
Campaign for Children and Families (who neither support nor oppose candidates for public office) provide us with the Report Card on the Natural Family to inform voters where the leading Republican presidential candidates stand on eight topics important to most Americans.
“While all of the leading Republican candidates claim to embrace family values, they’re marching to different drummers on marriage rights, adoption, religious freedom, ‘hate crime’ laws, schoolchildren, and the ‘LGBT’ agenda,” said CCF President Randy Thomasson.
Thomasson tells us that they are looking only at the Republican candidates and explains why. “According to the Human Rights Campaign, the leading Democratic candidates have already established records or made consistent statements in support of nearly all of the homosexual, bisexual, and transsexual agenda,” explains Thomasson, a registered independent, whose non-partisan organization will compare candidates from both major parties later this year.
To grade the Report Card on the Natural Family, presidential candidates’ positions were taken from published votes, policies, and public statements and documents. No coordination was done with any candidate or supporting campaign. For scoring purposes, the greatest weight was given to actual votes, actions and policies, rather than to contemporary statements that differ from past policies or statements or contradict previous actions.
The results for each candidate are as follows:
Guiliani supports only one family issue: he opposed teaching schoolchildren to support homosexuality. Huckabee is the strongest candidate in supporting family issues, as he has: protected marriage and marriage rights, opposed civil unions and domestic partnerships, opposed homosexual couples adopting children, is opposed to forcing private businesses to support homosexuality, and refused to support "Gay Pride Day". Ronald Paul came in second, supporting five of the seven issues, McCain and Thompson tied for third place, and Romney tied with Guiliani for last place.
For details on how each candidate scored, you can view the chart here. This is what I expected based on the information that I have read on the candidate's positions and learned about them through TV, radio, and the Internet.
Thanks, Jean for this and all of your posts. I don't always click through, but I do always read your blog through a reader.
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