Romney's campaign has a major hurdle to overcome... resistance in
some parts of the religious community.
The meeting below may set the tone for all the "not-Romney"
talking-points between now and the Iowa caucuses, and
Iowa may become the bellwether for the entire GOP campaign
This source obviously has a point of view...
This is what theocracy looks like
Steve Bogira
Nov 18, 2011
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The Republican candidates for president will meet in a megachurch in Iowa Saturday
to discuss key issues in the campaign, such as which one of them most opposes gay marriage.
The “Thanksgiving Family Forum” is being hosted by sponsors
who don’t believe in separation of church and debate.
The event, at the First Federated Church in Des Moines,
will be moderated by pollster and Fox News regular Frank Luntz.
He told the Des Moines Register he may ask the candidates, for instance,
“What do the words ‘so help me God’ mean to you?”
As host, Luntz will home in on the nation’s major concern,
which, according to the Family Leader, is not the economy or foreign affairs
but the need for faithful monogamy between God-fearing heterosexuals.
On the steps of the Iowa capitol in July, Vander Plaats unveiled the Family Leader’s “Marriage Vow,”
which included a “Candidate Vow” that candidates would have to sign
if they wanted to be considered for the Family Leader’s blessing.
Given the bigoted views the Family Leader expressed this summer,
a better question for the candidates might be,
“Why aren’t you sitting this event out?”
Mitt Romney and Jon Huntsman are doing just that.
But the rest of the squad—
Herman Cain, Newt Gingrich, Michele Bachmann, Rick Perry, Ron Paul, and Rick Santorum
will be fighting like the devil to win over the faithful.
Tickets to the forum are $40.
The church holds 3,400, and proceeds benefit the Family Leader.
The Republican candidates help the Family Leader raise money through this event,
the Family Leader helps righteous Republicans get elected
—it’s all one big happy straight family.
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