I am writing today to announce the closure of the Michigan Messenger. After four years of operation in Michigan, the board of the American Independent News Network, has decided to shift publication of its news into a single site, The American Independent at Americanindependent.com. This is part of a shift in strategy, towards new forms [...]
An abstinence-only presentation provided to numerous school districts in Calhoun and Eaton Counties in October of this year provided false and misleading information to students about HIV, experts allege.
Two county registers of deeds filed a class action lawsuit Monday on behalf of Michigan’s 83 counties alleging that the Mortgage Electronic Registration Services owes millions of dollars in property title transfer taxes.
Despite evidence of the impact of mercury on children and public health, Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette last month joined with 24 other state attorneys general in filing a lawsuit to scuttle new EPA regulations that would reduce mercury emissions from power plants.
A group of prominent religious right leaders, including Gary Glenn of the American Family Association’s Michigan chapter, have signed an open letter warning Republicans that Mitt Romney is a wolf in sheep’s clothing and should not win the party’s presidential nomination.
The letter is very long and lists a great many Romney statements and actions as being “contrary to the conservative and Christian worldview.” It concludes:
The evidence is overwhelming that Romney’s business experience did not help him govern as a conservative when in fact, he governed Massachusetts as a big government, anti family liberal. His flip-flops on numerous foundational issues shortly before he became a presidential candidate causes us to question his sincerity, and his suspect “conversion” to the pro life view has been undermined by the numerous pro-abortion actions taken after his alleged epiphany.
Most disturbing is the key role Mitt Romney played in accelerating two of the greatest threats to our Judeo-Christian culture and free enterprise system: Homosexual marriage and government control of health care. In both instances, the actions Romney took – or didn’t take – on homosexual marriage and RomneyCare have done lasting damage to our country. Romney’s aggressive efforts to implement the unconstitutional Goodridge decision set a precedent which inspired pro-homosexual marriage activity nationwide, and his RomneyCare bill served as the model for ObamaCare, the biggest lurch toward socialism since the New Deal.
As such, Romney has done more damage to America in his four years as Governor than any Democrat officeholder we can think of. But Romney, to this day, defends his actions on both fronts and sincerely believes he has done nothing wrong, an attitude which only raises additional questions about his fitness for national office. We must question his worldview, his sincerity, and his judgment. We believe the election of Mitt Romney would be a disastrous mistake for the conservative movement and for the country.
Romney has been by far the most successful fundraiser in the Republican race so far and is viewed by many as the prohibitive favorite, but he has long had a problem with the party’s staunch conservative base. As the letter notes, he has taken decidedly liberal positions on many issues that inflame the passions of the right.
In a run against Ted Kennedy in 1994, for example, Romney often told the story of a family friend who had died from a botched abortion and declared that he was pro-choice and would never waver on that; in the 2008 primaries, he claimed to be staunchly pro-life. In that same senatorial election, Romney promised to do more for gay rights than Ted Kennedy could do, another position that has Christian conservatives doubting that he is really one of them.
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