ok.. i'm willing to work with ya...
his religious beliefs? his publically stated beliefs? one goes searching for quotes and positions and they suggest....differently.. at least no expression of evil.. (which may or may not be his personal beliefs....)
http://aboutmittromney.com/gay_issues.htm#statements
well a "phobia" is an irrational fear.
Cuomo "phobia" then is ANY irrational fear based on homosexuality. Now as a child that expressed itself as beating up a kid. As an adult it expresses itself as
'' "At the same time, I believe that marriage should be reserved for a relationship between one man and one woman. For me, that's not a matter of discrimination," Romney adds
Since he offers no REASONED or LOGICAL bases for this "belief"... it isn't rational. And clearly there is a fear there since he talks about being "very committed to traditional marriage".
So that means he still harbors FEAR about homosexuality. A fear based in irrationality. QED Homophobia. Now he's gotten better since age 12 (or whatever age that was) in throwing up a smoke screen of verbiage about "treating all people with respect and dignity" but he fails to address the logical fallacy of being "FOR the absence of discrimination" and then advocating writing discrimination into the US Constitution via a Gay Marriage Ban Amendment.
So clearly there is still irrationality there.
OTOH with Obama - well actually he - like the vast majority of adults, actually is a drug user. After all, Alcohol (and nicotine) are both drugs. Alcohol being the more physiologically harmful and Nicotine being amont the most addictive in the world. So to that extent your end claim is accurate - but how you got there is not. the research on "illicit drug use by youth" shows a strong correlation between social adaptivity and leaership skills, and a willingness to EXPERIMENT with illicit drugs but then leave them for more interesting pursuits. It turns out that the social adaptivity profiles of both the abstainers and addicts are almost the same.
So Obama turns out to have experimented with illicit drugs. As did Clinton, as did Dole (drinking as a minor is illicit drug use), as did GWB. One of the big differences here is that GWB's drug use
- Adversely affected his daily life and relationships - not so with Obama
- required his quitting Cold Turkey (as a drug addict does) - not so with Obama (wine drinking)
- Continued heavily into his adult years - not so with Obama
GWB was an addict on the wagon - and was not willing to be open about that. THAT is dangerous.
Romney is not willing to be open about his homophobia either.
