WASHINGTON -- Gary Bauer, former Republican presidential candidate and Campaign for Working Families Chairman, today issued the following statement regarding comments made yesterday to the Associated Press by Focus on the Family President James Dobson taking exception with Governor George W. Bush.
"I want to commend my good friend Jim Dobson for his comments Wednesday regarding the sanctity of human life and the way this foundational issue directly relates to this November's presidential election."
"Jim said George Bush should say clearly that he would choose only a pro-life running mate, and that the justices he may nominate to the Supreme Court would be only pro-life. This is exactly the same message I stressed repeatedly during the presidential primary campaign and in almost all of the Republican debates I had with the governor last year."
"I strongly agree with Jim that the base of my party, the Republican Party, is pro-life and that you cannot win the presidency without that base. The Republican Party is the party of life, the unapologetically pro-life party. As Jim said, if we do not state our principles clearly on this issue we will have lost our voice and our way."
"Also, I strongly agree with Jim's comments regarding Gov. Bush's meeting with homosexual Republicans in April. By agreeing to that meeting, Bush set a new benchmark for future Republican presidential nominees. To meet with homosexual Republicans and not state unequivocally that you oppose the gay-rights agenda was a misstep."
"I will continue, as I did throughout the presidential campaign and debates, to work to make sure the Republican Party -- the party of Lincoln and Reagan -- remains unambiguously pro-life. The stakes are too high and too lasting. The pro-life cause remains the preeminent civil rights issue of the new millenium."
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