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Newt Gingrich has decided not to sign -- at least, not sign as of yet -- an Iowa conservative group's controversial 'Marriage Vow' pledge for Republican presidential candidates to personally and publicly uphold heterosexual monogamy and sexual morality.
"We're happy to work with you to sharpen it so people understand where we're going with it," Gingrich told Family Leader head Bob Vander Plaats, according to Gingrich spokesman R.C. Hammond, in a National Journal report. "It's not there yet."
Two candidates, Michele Bachmann and Rick Santorum, have already signed the document -- and then when called on it, walked back just a bit from the resolution's original preamble language on slavery, which has since been edited out -- stating, quite contrary to the facts, that African-American families were more secure under slavery than they are today. (But they only walked back just a bit -- for example, Team Bachmann declared, "In no uncertain terms, Congresswoman Bachmann believes that slavery was horrible and economic enslavement is also horrible" -- thus likening modern economic and welfare policies to chattel slavery.)
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Newt Gingrich has decided not to sign -- at least, not sign as of yet -- an Iowa conservative group's controversial 'Marriage Vow' pledge for Republican presidential candidates to personally and publicly uphold heterosexual monogamy and sexual morality.
"We're happy to work with you to sharpen it so people understand where we're going with it," Gingrich told Family Leader head Bob Vander Plaats, according to Gingrich spokesman R.C. Hammond, in a National Journal report. "It's not there yet."
Two candidates, Michele Bachmann and Rick Santorum, have already signed the document -- and then when called on it, walked back just a bit from the resolution's original preamble language on slavery, which has since been edited out -- stating, quite contrary to the facts, that African-American families were more secure under slavery than they are today. (But they only walked back just a bit -- for example, Team Bachmann declared, "In no uncertain terms, Congresswoman Bachmann believes that slavery was horrible and economic enslavement is also horrible" -- thus likening modern economic and welfare policies to chattel slavery.)
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