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Re "Romney national security spokesman resigns" (Tribune, May 3):
When they hired Richard Grenell to be the Romney campaign's foreign policy adviser and spokesman, Mitt Romney and his top aides may have been sincere when they told Grenell that they had no problem with the fact that the prominent Bush administration foreign policy expert was gay. But when the Christian right started complaining, the campaign folded and marginalized Grenell, and he, rightly, resigned from such a homophobic organization.
If this is how Mitt Romney will make decisions — give in to the Christian right whenever they cry and discriminate against respected, widely recommended Republican conservatives who happen to be gay — we don't need such a wimpy administration, especially with the nation's direction concerning gay rights.
Grenell served as spokesman for four different Republican ambassadors to the United Nations, but now, competence is not the standard for Republican conservatives. What in the heck does being for gay marriage have to do with advising on foreign policy?
Must all Republicans be clones of the Christian right or there's no place for them in the party? That's a formula for an ever-shrinking party.
Gene Cummings
St. George