The Massachusetts Supreme Court ruled that the state had to allow gays to marry. Romney led the effort to get a Protection of Marriage amendment on the state ballot so that the citizens could overturn the court. The state legislature stalled on allowing the amendment, so Romney led a rally in Boston demanding that the people be allowed to vote on it. In the end, the Democrat legislature voted down the amendment and wouldn’t allow it on the ballot.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Same-sex_marriage_in_Massachusetts
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Part of Romney’s speech at the rally:
“Legislators so energized to protect the newly discovered gay right to marry had no compunction about trammeling the long established, constitutional right of the people to vote.
The issue now before us is not whether same sex couples should marry. The issue before us today is whether 109 legislators will follow the Constitution.
Tomorrow, I will send these 109 a copy of the Constitution and of their oath of office.
And this week, we will file an action before the courts, calling upon the judiciary to protect the constitutional rights of our citizens.
Let us not see this state, which first established constitutional democracy, become the first to abandon it.”
http://illinoisans-4-mitt-romney.blogspot.com/2006/11/mitt-romney-remarks-111906-democracy.html
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Mitt Romney’s 2006 Rally Against Gay Marriage
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFwJEsmGDZY
The left’s protest against Romney’s Protection of Marriage amendment:
Rally Against Romney “Bigot!”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VaLsE-y1TQE
Liberalism is contrary to democracy. See today, http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2954659/posts
Thanks. I’m glad to see that. I sure wish the referendum had been allowed to take place — assuming that the Massachusetts public have voted to keep traditional marriage.
As for this campaign, Romney has said virtually nothing about the marriage issue. Very unfortunate.