Republican Governor Mitt Romney of Massachusetts has decided to take on queer parents. Not directly, of course - that would make him a bigot. Instead he's hiding in the Forest of Wonking Policies and allowing Catholic Charities to wear the bigot pants. Don't get me wrong, they fit them quite well, I'm just sure that there is a pair of bigot pants out there that will fit Mitt perfectly, too.

In what is surely a move to pander to religious conservatives in preparation for his 2008 bid for the Republican Presidential nomination, Romney seeks to create an exception to Massachusetts law that will allow Catholic Charities - the charitable arm of the Roman Catholic Church (unfortunately cuffed by the not-so charitable arms of Joey the Rat, err...Pope Benedict XVI) - to refuse to place children in the homes of gay and lesbian couples. The exception would dance right around a Massachusetts anti-discrimination law.

In hopes of becoming the Political Pandering Panda, Romney also stated that he would sign a bill banning all abortions (including those for pregnancies resulting from rape or incest) if it were presented to him. Which it hasn't been. He just wants all those religious conservatives to know that this Panda is ready to politically pander post-haste - pre-haste really. In Massachusetts or South Dakota or Mississippi - where ever they'll take his Pandering Panda Ass, as long as he can be President.

Which has led me to the following conclusion: Mitt Romney hates babies.