Dancing With The Devil—Bob Jones Endorses Romney

The Washington Times
carried an Associated Press report entitled, "Bob
Jones III endorses Mitt Romney." Here are
excerpts:

"Bob Jones III,
chancellor of the Christian

fundamentalist school named for his family, is
endorsing Republican Mitt Romney for president."

"Romney`s campaign
confirmed Jones` endorsement today."

According to the report
Jones told a

Greenville, South Carolina newspaper that
"supporting Romney is critical to make sure former New
York Mayor Rudy Giuliani doesn`t win the GOP nomination
and that Democratic presidential candidate Hillary
Rodham Clinton doesn`t win the election."

"`If it turns out to be
Giuliani and Hillary, we`ve got two pro-choice
candidates, and that would be a disaster,` Jones told
The Greenville News for a story on its Web site
today." [Bob
Jones III endorses Romney for president, By Ron
Barnett, October 16, 2007]

Jones also said, "As
a Christian I am completely opposed to the doctrines of
Mormonism. But I`m not voting for a preacher. I`m voting
for a president. It boils down to who can best represent
conservative American beliefs, not religious beliefs."

Bob Jones` endorsement
of the former Massachusetts governor illustrates just
how low the Religious Right will go in compromising
bedrock principle for the sake of political expediency.

Jones says he is
supporting Romney so as to help defeat Rudy Giuliani. I
very much want to see what Jones will do if and when
Giuliani gets the Republican nomination. I would
anticipate that he will continue to follow his current
modus operandi and support Giuliani, because he would
then say that Giuliani is the "lesser of two evils."

Why do I say that?
Because Jones is already demonstrating that he will
support one liberal over another liberal. Mitt Romney is
not a conservative—not by any measure of the word. And I
am confident that Bob Jones knows it.

Romney`s entire
political career has been built by catering to the
eastern liberal establishment. That he is now attempting
to remake himself into a conservative (and that
Christian "leaders" are willing to assist this
façade) is both laughable and detestable!

In his endorsement
announcement, Jones said, "If it turns out to be a
Giuliani and Hillary, we`ve got two pro-choice
candidates, and that would be a disaster."

DUH!

Where has Bob Jones III
been for the last two decades? Mitt Romney has been a
consistent pro-abortion politician since entering public
life. His track record is there for anyone who wants to
examine it. Here are a few facts Dr. Bob should have
looked at before he embarrassed himself and Bob Jones
University with this stupidly naïve endorsement.

According to one
well-researched account,

"Mitt Romney has a long
history of supporting pro-abortion candidates and
causes, and aggressively sought the support and
endorsement of groups such as NARAL and Planned
Parenthood. Indeed, Romney is still listed today as a
member of the Republican Main Street Partnership, a
group supported by Billionaire leftist George Soros
dedicated to shifting the GOP leftward on social issues
such as abortion rights and stem cell research."

"Romney also has a
history of assisting the careers of other prominent
pro-abortion politicians. In the 1992 presidential race,
Romney endorsed and voted for pro-abortion liberal
Democrat Paul Tsongas in the Democratic primary and just
three years ago endorsed and made a television ad for
Democrat Salt Lake City mayor Rocky Anderson, a former
Planned Parenthood attorney."

"As Governor, he issued
state proclamations honoring `Right to Privacy Day`
which until 2005, specifically referenced the Roe vs.
Wade case."

"Romney repeatedly took
extreme stances on abortion throughout his career and
consistently made statements such as this one: `I
believe that Roe v. Wade has been the law for 20 years,
that we should sustain and support it . . .`"

"There simply is no
doubt that Romney was one of the most pro-abortion
Republican office holders in the country."

See the full report
here:

A Report on the Pro-life Views of Governor Mitt Romney

As to the issue of
"gay rights," Mitt Romney`s record is equally clear.
He has consistently facilitated the radical homosexual
agenda.

According to a World Net
Daily report, "A website paid for and authorized by
the Massachusetts Democratic Party has posted a picture
of a flier reportedly passed out at a 2002 `gay pride`
event by then-gubernatorial candidate Mitt Romney
expressing support for homosexual rights."

"The flier, on red
paper, claims to have been paid for by `the Romney for
Governor Committee and Kerry Murphy Healey Committee`
and reads, `Mitt and Kerry wish you a great Pride
Weekend.`"

See the full report
here:

2002 Romney flier promotes `gay` rights, WND,
September 21, 2007

For Mitt Romney to now
say that he "took every conceivable step within the
law to defend traditional marriage" is just so much
hooey, according to my good friend, Harvard law school
graduate and founding dean of Regent University`s law
school, Herb Titus.

Read the report here:

Experts: Credit Romney for homosexual marriage `What
he did was exercise illegal legislative authority`,
WND, July 14, 2007

On the subject of gun
control, Mitt Romney promised that he would not lift a
finger to "chip away" at the gun laws in
Massachusetts—a state that has some of the most
draconian gun restrictions in the country.

As recently as 2002,
Mitt Romney said, "We do have tough gun laws in
Massachusetts; I support them."

For the "skinny"
on Mitt Romney`s leftist anti-gun record, see the Gun
Owners of America`s report

here.

For a look at Romney`s
record on illegal immigration, read this:

A Progressive Indictment: Romney And Immigration Reform:
What The Record Says, By Randall Burns,
VDARE.com, August 9, 2007.

Obviously, Mitt Romney
is a chameleon who will say anything to anybody in order
to get elected. He has flipped and flopped more than
John Kerry ever dreamed about. Only an idiot would
believe anything this man says.

Thankfully, not everyone
within the Religious Right has been duped by Mitt
Romney. Janet Folger recently

wrote the following about the chameleon.

"And then there`s Mitt
Romney, making a convenient flip from his ardent
pro-abortion stance just in time to run for president.
It just seems to me that if you really come to the
realization that dismembering children is not good
public policy, you`d remember not to FUND it with
taxpayer dollars in your state health-care plan . . .
after such a conversion. Oh yeah, suddenly he`s
pro-marriage, too. So why did Romney publicly beat up on
pro-marriage activist Brian Camenker last month? It
that`s how he treats people on our side of the issue,
that doesn`t bode well for future White House relations.
And finally, mandating that homosexual `marriage
licenses` be issued without any change in the law
requiring it (in direct violation of the Massachusetts
State Constitution) isn`t very convincing, either."

Romney has not fooled
World Net Daily editor Joseph Farah, either. Here is
what Farah said about Mitt Romney:

"Don`t be fooled by this
political chameleon, this charlatan, this pretender to
the throne. He`s as phony as a three-dollar campaign
promise."

See Farah`s complete
column

here.

Folks, here is the
problem: Christian leaders such as Bob Jones III have
succumbed to the temptation to become glorified
politicians. They surrendered their convictions thirty
years ago when the old Moral Majority married the
Republican Party. Ever since then, Republican
politicians have made a living by making dupes out of
the so-called Religious Right.

There is another
problem: our so-called Christian "leaders" crave
attention. They desire notoriety. They are obsessed with
having access to power. They want a seat at the king`s
table. As a result, they are willing to believe the lies
being told them by shrewd and cunning frauds—as long as
they are Republicans, of course.

As Doc Holliday said in
the movie Tombstone, "My hypocrisy only goes
so far."

Accordingly, our
Christian "leaders" will never promote a man`s
candidacy on principle alone. They want to pick a
"winner." They want to be on the good side of the
last guy standing—even if that guy is a no-good,
compromising louse.

In addition, there is
yet another problem: for the most part, our illustrious
Christian "leaders" are willfully ignorant of the
importance of constitutional government. They either
don`t understand it, or don`t want to understand it.
Whatever the reason, issues such as national
independence and sovereignty and globalism do not even
show up on their radar. I`m not sure they have even read
the Declaration of Independence, the U.S. Constitution
and the Bill of Rights. If they have, they sure don`t
act like it.

Dr. Bob apparently does
not realize that when our President takes his oath of
office, he does not promise to "represent
conservative American beliefs." Instead, he promises
to "preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of
the United States."

I wonder, too, if Dr.
Bob has ever heard of the Security and Prosperity
Partnership (SPP). Has he ever heard of the

NAFTA superhighway? Does he have a clue about the
globalist agenda of the

Council on Foreign Relations? Does he even realize
that there is a burgeoning

North American Union developing?

I doubt it. I further
doubt that he has read Dr. Jerry Corsi`s book The
Late Great USA.

Find it

here.

In his endorsement of
Mitt Romney, Dr. Bob Jones III also said, "This all
about beating Hillary."

Oh, really? Since when
does a preacher of the Gospel and Christian educator put
electing charlatans (of any political party) ahead of
standing for truth and doing right?

And this leads to
another problem.

Our Christian
"leaders" have forgotten what it means to stand on
principle. They have gotten so bogged down in politics
that they have forsaken the divine call to be watchmen
on the wall. If Bob Jones III would be as concerned
about standing for truth and principle as he is about
"beating Hillary," many others might be encouraged
to do the same—and we preachers might actually be able
to have a positive impact upon the direction of our
country. As it is, our Christian "leaders" are
not only not helping to lead our nation out of its
current mess, they are actually contributing to the
problem, as Dr. Jones` endorsement of Mitt Romney
illustrates.

Furthermore, what is Dr.
Bob going to say to the students and graduates of Bob
Jones University? How can he justify all the years of
"separation" preaching that BJU is known for? Where
is his consistency? How can he now turn around and
convince his students that all those Christian
"standards" regarding the fellowship of light with
darkness, reproving evil, contending for the faith,
etc., apply only to areas outside politics? Obviously,
BJU students now know that when it comes to politics, we
can cast all those principles aside.

It makes one wonder what
other areas of the Christian life are exempt from
Biblical principles. Maybe our business life? But that`s
a subject for another day.

I believe Dr. Bob`s
grandfather must be turning over in his grave. I don`t
know how many times I have heard the "big"
fundamentalist preachers quote Dr. Bob Jones, Sr. as
saying,

"Do right if the stars fall!"

Instead of doing right,
however, Bob Jones III would rather dance with the
devil.

Dr. Chuck Baldwin is the
pastor of Crossroad Baptist Church in Pensacola,
Florida. He hosts a

weekly radio show. His
website is

here.