National Update
Thursday, January 24, 2008
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From: Maurine Proctor
Washington, D.C.
Family Leader’s Presidential Scorecard
In this season of grand rhetoric and high promises from the presidential candidates, how about some hard evidence on where they stand on issues key in supporting the traditional family? Family Leader has compiled a scorecard for the candidates based on their positions on eight issues critical to citizens with family values, and the results indicate that everybody who talks the talk about the importance of family in America doesn't necessarily walk the walk.
We compiled the candidates' positions regarding these issues:
1. Supports a federal amendment defining marriage as the union of one man and one woman.
2. Supports the U.S. Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade allowing states to decide abortion
3. Supports appointing strict constitutionalists judges similar to Chief Justice John Roberts
4. Supports existing federal abstinence until marriage sex education (Title V)
5. Supports a federal parental notification law for minors seeking an abortion
6. Opposes federal legislation that provides "civil rights" protection based on sexual orientation
7. Opposes federal legislation that provides "civil rights" protection based on "gender identity"
8. Supports a federal law banning human cloning
The Scorecard
The results can be seen here, where the scores range from 13 to 100 in support of our issues, with Romney and Huckabee both at 100% on our issues and Clinton, Edward and Obama at 13.
This scorecard is a measure of how the candidates stand regarding their social conservatism, but does not, of course, reflect their position on economic or foreign issues which are also important in protecting and supporting our families.
As we are headed into the Florida primaries on January 29, followed by super Tuesday, February 5, when 22 states will have primaries, here's how the delegate count lines up:
Romney 59
Huckabee 40
McCain 36
Thompson 5 (Thompson has dropped out of the race.)
Paul 4
Giuliani 1
I find this scorecard questionable because McCain appears to be the choice of the same people who helped install Bush and Cheney, in other words, someone who will continue to do the bidding of the military-industrial complex and I hardly consider John McCain a 'family guy'. Ron Paul is a lot more family-friendly than McCain is, not to mention more constitutional, moral and ethical, yet, McCain scores 32 points higher than Ron?
