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Rick Perry Signs NOM Pledge, Thinks Gays Are Like Alcoholics

Friday, August 26th, 2011

Fresh off a Denver fundraiser, Texas governor Rick Perry today became the fourth GOP candidate to sign the National Organization for Marriage’s anti marriage equality pledge. Thursday night Perry hosted a fundraiser in suburban Denver. Admission was said to be $5,000 a pop.

Of course, Perry’s position on marriage equality is nothing new. In a 2008 book, he wrote:

Even if an alcoholic is powerless over alcohol once it enters his body, he still makes a choice to drink. And, even if someone is attracted to a person of the same sex, he or she still makes a choice to engage in sexual activity with someone of the same gender.

Even before Perry signed the pledge to support a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage, Brad Clark, executive director of One Colorado, had this to say about Perry’s book, via email:

Full Story from The Colorado Independent

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Pawlenty Signs NOM’s Anti Marriage Equality Pledge

Friday, August 5th, 2011

The coalition of Republican candidates signing on with the National Organization for Marriage has just grown by one with the addition of Tim Pawlenty.

The former Minnesota governor had originally appeared to skip the anti-gay marriage pledge, with TheWall Street Journal reporting that he preferred to use his own words rather than sign pledges. But if Pawlenty suddenly changed his mind after NOM singled him out for criticism, he’s not copping to the flip-flop.

“They had a deadline that we couldn’t meet because of the governor’s travel schedule, so we told them that,” a spokesman for Pawlenty told Politico. “When the governor reviewed it, he wanted to sign it and we told the group that, even though their deadline had passed.”

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Pawlenty Won’t Sign Anti Marriage Equality Pledge

Wednesday, July 13th, 2011

T-PawFormer Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty became the latest presidential candidate to refuse to sign a controversial anti-gay-marriage pledge being pushed by Iowa social conservative Bob Vander Plaats.

Republican presidential candidate, former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty speaks during a town hall meeting at his campaign headquarters in Urbandale, Iowa., July 7. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)

“I deeply respect, and share, Bob Vander Platts’ commitment to promoting the sanctity of marriage, a culture of life, and the core principles of the Family Leader’s Marriage Vow Pledge,” Mr. Pawlenty said in a statement. “However, rather than sign onto the words chosen by others, I prefer to choose my own words, especially seeking to show compassion to those who are in broken families through no fault of their own. I respectfully decline to sign the pledge.”

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Romney Won’t Sign Anti Marriage Equality Pledge

Wednesday, July 13th, 2011

Mitt RomneyFormer Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney’s campaign said Tuesday that he will not sign a conservative Iowa Christian group’s far-reaching pledge opposing gay marriage, making him the first Republican presidential candidate to reject it.

Two of Romney’s rivals for the Republican nomination, Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann and former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum, have signed the The Family Leader’s 14-point pledge, which calls on the candidates to denounce same-sex marriage rights, pornography, same-sex military accommodations and forms of Islamic law.

When it was first circulated last week, the introduction to the pledge stated that African American children were more likely to be raised in two-parent households when they were born into slavery than they are today. The group struck that language and apologized after black ministers complained, but it said it stands by the rest of the document.

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