BREAKING NEWS! HAS FOCUS ON THE FAMILY, ITS STATE AFFILIATES AND OTHER PRO-FAMILY GROUPS BEEN INFLUENCED BY ROMNEY MONEY?

Has Focus on the Family, its State Affiliates and Other Pro-Family Groups Been Influenced by Romney Money? The Public and Donors Have A Right To Know!

In my article from yesterday, which you can read at this link, http://www.christianworldviewnetwork.com/article.php/3045/Brannon_Howse

I asked this question:

Has Romney money or Mormon money gone to any pro-family organizations over the past two years and thus compromised the discernment of some?

Since asking that question, I have sought to answer it with my own research. Thus far, here is what I have discovered.

According to an article at harpers.org:

"Mitt Romney had "made some strategic donations to a number of well-connected conservative groups in the pivotal early primary state of South Carolina." Romney, as I noted, has doled out money to at least half a dozen right-wing organizations, including the Palmetto Family Council, South Carolinians for Responsible Government, South Carolina Citizens for Life, and to an organization that sponsored a drive to ban same-sex marriage." 

 According to their own website, The Palmetto Family Council: 

...was formed in association with Focus on the Family in 1994 and operates in association with Focus on the Family and Family Research Council. Palmetto Family Council has developed the reputation of a clear, credible voice on cultural and public policy issues affecting the family.

Very interesting. Are you starting to connect the dots?

Now read the complete article and ask yourself if this is why Romney has either received a free pass from pro-family groups or actually has pro-family leaders working for him and endorsing him:

Click here to read the full text of Article #1:

http://www.harpers.org/archive/2007/10/hbc-90001501

Article #2:

Romney buys support from conservative movement

• $10,000 to National Review - which later endorsed him for president
• $15,000 to Mass Citizens for Life - which later gave him an award
• $10,000 to Massachusetts Family Institute - which now praises him across the country.

The Massachusetts Family Institute is, according to their website:

"The group, which is associated with Focus on the Family, works to defend faith and family."

In this video the direct of the MFI states they are connected to Focus on the Family. You can see that by clicking here:
http://www.citizenlink.org/content/A000004595.cfm

Focus on the Family lists the Massachusetts Family Institute as being "Fully Associated" on their website:
http://www.citizenlink.org/fpc/

• $25,000 to the Heritage Foundation - which praises his health plan
• $35,000 to the Federalist Society - full of influencial conservatives

Click here to read the full text of article #2

http://massresistance.org/romney/articles/NYTimes_031107.html

We have more information along these lines we hope to post soon as we seek to continue connecting the dots.

By Brannon Howse Email: Brannon@worldviewweekend.com Click here for bio and archived articles

1ST CONGRESS CALLED FOR CHRISTIAN CHURCH SERVICE Posted On: 02/14/08 12:30:52 AM Age 64, OH At the inauguration of Washington the congress had passed an act to have a Christian church service after the inauguration as an act of the government and almost all attended it. the service was an official service called by for the government of the US. Lou Miscommunique... Posted On: 02/13/08 10:11:23 AM Age 20, MN Sorry, I may have been not clear on not deciding to continue the conversation that may easily turn into a debate (since we would disagree on what a "good GOP" or a "good Dem" would be). The reason is because I really don't have the time, nor would I think it be really worth it. Anyway, you have a great day! :) Ah. :) Posted On: 02/13/08 09:11:01 AM Age 20, MN Then I forsee that you and I would probably disagree on this being a good thing (on the whole, not in parts necessarily). Thus, I think we can end discussion between us. Have a great day! John-Directionless Posted On: 02/12/08 04:55:14 PM Age 58, MA John, It's going to be tough to converse if we can't agree on the nomenclature for the four cardinal points of the compass, isn't it? Good of you to cite Rumsfeld, and the limits of his thought processes. If we're going to indulge in completely unrestricted flights of fancy, that can be fun, but "What color is your unicorn?" doesn't get us much past a second grader's coloring book, does it? Ever see the movie "Stand By Me", four twelve year old boys, in the early 60s, taking a hike on the last weekend before they enter junior high? Along the way, one of them asks the buddy he's walking next to, "Who do you think is stronger, Superman, or Mighty Mouse?". His buddy's reply is that of course Superman is stronger, since Mighty Mouse is just a cartoon. Gravity is a matter of faith? The term may be our language's consensus, the phenomenom may be, technically, a theory, and, if we're going to quibble about the terms for directions, we'll be bumping into "up" and "down", but do you want to test things by placing yourself fifty or so feet beneath an suddenly unsupported Buick? I think that either of us can make that decision, and that we can do so without invoking any divinites. Air? Cosby answered that. There's air to blow up basketballs, and footballs, and volleyballs,... Okay, a silliness, but the facts of the chemical makeup of this planet's atmosphere in no way necessitate human existence, or any other particular life form, ask your local brontosaurus. The sun doesn't actually "rise", as you know, that's an illusion, a bit of ancient poetry, servicible enough in its ways, but not the reality that what we're really experiencing is the planet's turning on its axis. That's why I used the word dawn, and not sunrise. The fact that I or you do exist is what makes it beyond merely the reasonable, and all the way into our shared actual reality, and that's the same for the mosquito and the cockroach. Unless it's really just me, and only my imagining you, but that avenue doesn't take us very far, does it? Limits to our knowledge? Of course, and there always will be, even as, or, more accurately, if, we manage to endure long enough to also learn more. But that limitation doesn't, of itself, in any way make either necessary or even valid the existence of some superior entity. Morals? Well, let's see. I don't, for instance, shoplift, and I do, for instance, hold doors if I see there's someone else who's about to go through. Neither of those personally chosen and developed habits have the slightest to do with whether or not there's some measuring entity, let alone divinity, observing my behavior. Greg. Something along these lines Posted On: 02/12/08 03:35:11 PM Age 58, MA Very abbreviated, FDR and Ike, updated. A newer New Deal, and the awareness of the dangers inherent with the military-industrial-Congressional complex. Depends Posted On: 02/11/08 06:23:25 PM Age 58, MA Do you mean founding fathers like Jefferson, Franklin, and Madison, or were you perhaps thinking of some country other than the United States? If it's the first, read what those gentlemen actually wrote, especially in regards to the dangers of religions having influence in America's political structures. Maybe not Posted On: 02/11/08 06:13:56 PM Age 58, MA But then, you haven't answered mine, have you? OK, nevermind... Posted On: 02/11/08 02:34:58 PM Age 20, MN your posts finally did pop up, thus answering my question. However, I am curious by your definition of what a better Republican or Democrat would look like. Have a great day! :) Informative article Posted On: 02/11/08 02:18:50 PM Age 39, GA Very interesting. Perhaps Focus on the Family should change their name to "Focus on the Money." ;) CAN GOD BE KNOWN AS A FACT Posted On: 02/09/08 11:16:08 PM Age 64, OH you are correct there is a difference between belief and reality. But just because you do not know something as fact does not mean that someone else can not know it as fact. I know The Lord Jesus Christ personally and he has shown me many things to be fact. If there God is a fact then he is certainly capable of proving ANY reality that he pleases to show someone. It is arrogant to think because you do not know God that someone else can not know God with a certainty. Lou