But it doesn’t matter what he says he believes, what matters is his public record. Seems to me you folks are real sensitive about those you call your own, even to the point of ignoring what a man has done in public, on record.

His speech was full of platitudes about religious freedoms and such, but his public record says he favors more federal guvmint involvement in my life. Good on his platitudes. Based upon his record and the fact he’s a died-in-the-wool politician, I still wouldn’t trust him to tell me it’s raining in a typhoon.

First, anyone who believes that a Mormon would actively support abortion is nuts. Pure and simple. The LDS faith believes that we were with the Heavenly Father before conception and that we return to his embrace upon death. Children are precious, not to be discarded in the abortionist’s trash can.

Second, and even more important. Many of us who came of age at the time Romney did, and I am very close to his age, did not see the abortion issue as that big a deal. Back in the ’70s, when abortion became the law of the land, most of us were already married and didn’t really pay that much attention. It wasn’t something that hit us in the face in our own daily lives. We had been spoon fed the backroom abortion line, even through our teenage years or we knew of someone who disappeared for awhile because of an unwed pregnancy and then appeared again with their reputation in tatters. And absolutely no one saw what was coming.

We never ever thought that the few abortions that needed to be performed to save a life and should not be criminalized would turn into over 40+ million lives being snuffed out in the womb. We never once anticipated that abortion would turn out to be a convenient form of birth control. And we never ever considered that a married woman would elect to kill her own flesh and blood unborn baby because it wasn’t convenient, or because she didn’t want stretch marks, or because she already had her 2 children and didn’t want to start over with babysitters.

I was one of those who shrugged my shoulders and didn’t give it much thought beyond those backroom horror stories of rusty coat hangers and women bleeding to death. Not until my own daughter was a teenager and together we attended a seminar where the latest technology was on display in the form of a film clip showing the baby in the womb and the development over the course of 9 months did I come away knowing that I had to rethink my view. And when I saw a follow-up film clip of how abortions are performed, with tiny little bodies being torn limb from limb and saline injections to the brain, did I know that I had to take a strong stance.

Like Romney, I changed. I had always known that abortion wasn’t a choice I would make, but it wasn’t until 1987 that I formulated my final opinion that I was for free choice and that choice was for life except in the real cases of life of the mother and some very very limited case by case decisions concerning incest.

Romney has said time and time again that he had only his experience with a family member having a botched backroom abortion to influence him until he faced a situation where he had to rethink abortion and formulate a true opinion. Like myself, when he did have his epiphany, he became a strong pro-lifer, which is in line with his religious beliefs as well.

So, this constant questioning is tacky and, in my opinion, is nothing more than an attempt to hide an underlying bigotry toward Romney so prevalent in the evangelical community.

Do you really believe that Romney would appoint a pro-choice judge? I doubt you do. He has already proven that he is on the same page with embryonic stem cell research, although that point is just about rendered moot with the two new breakthroughs announced in the last month concerning stem cells from skin that have yielded such breathtaking successes, already finding a way to cure Sickle Cell anemia using this technique.

Question Romney on his policies, but this issue is a media/dem driven issue that has hoodwinked evangelicals into believing it is a valid issue. Don’t you guys get it? Wake up. Mitt Romney is probably the LEAST likely candidate at this point to cave on the right to life issue, to think otherwise suggests a different agenda using this issue as a red herring.

Frankly, the only time I would care is if he was a muslim or satanist. Other than that, I’ll look at what the man does, not says.

And I personally think Romney is honest as the day is long - on December 22, above the Arctic Circle. I wouldn’t trust the guy to tell me what he really believes about anything (including his religion) if his life depended on it. But then, he (like all the other jackass-wannabees) is a politician.