It's sad indeed to see Keyes' history of the events so wrong.
The courts ordered the state legislature to come up with a policy implementing gay marriage within 180 days. I Romney did nothing, the whole alw would have been busted open. There was nothing Romney could do except fight with a constitutional amendment, which is very hard to do in Mass....
http://www.cnn.com/2003/LAW/11/18/samesex.marriage.ruling/
Can you show me where the MA legislature passed a law before the state's chief executive, Willard Mitt Romney, implemented gay marriage?