On February 8, 2004 there was an anti-gay-marriage rally on the Boston Commons, 3000 people came and braved sub-freezing weather to petition their legislators to stop gay marriage. Mitt was NOT there. Nor did he send a message or representative.
For the four years that Romney was governor, the Massachusetts Family Institute led a coalition of 18 groups to collect 170,000 petitions asking the legislature to let the people vote on amending the state constitution to ban gay marriage and lobbied the State legislature to vote to allow the people to vote.
Mitt Romney never attended their Annual dinners, never helped them to raise funds and never made a personal donation. This, despite the fact that he was able to contribute over $18 million to his campaign to change jobs and become President and raise $6 million in one day for his effort to change jobs.
His many counter-productive moves to issue proclamations for Gay Pride day, appoint radical gay activists to his cabinet and other administrative posts as well as to the judicial bench are well documented.
In the 2004 legislative races, he told candidates not to talk about the gay marriage issue and campaigned for four Republicans who were for gay marriage.
On Friday May 11, 2006, Governor Romney’s office announced that they were going to close the Governor’s Council on Gay and Lesbian Youth at three o’clock in the afternoon. Before six O’clock that evening he changed his mind and decided that idea was wrong.
Mitt spent 212 days out of the state in 2006 campaigning for Republican Governors and making his pitch for a Presidential campaign.
Mitt Romney was pro-life in Utah then pro-choice in Massachusetts in 2002 but said he became pro-life in 2004 when he was learning about embryos at Harvard. Mitt decided an embryo was a human being and worth of protection. Unfortunately he changed his mind and now says it is OK to experiment on unwanted embryos if they can not be adopted.
On February 28, 2005 - after his pro-life conversion - Romney said: “I am personally pro-life. However, as governor I would not change the laws of the commonwealth relating to abortion.”
He did “change” health care in Massachusetts. His plan allows Planned Parenthood to have an ex-officio seat on the board, and allows for $50 co-pays for abortions. Two months before leaving office he approved over $5 million for building a Planned Parenthood abortion facility in Worcester.
Mitt Romney sat on the National Board of the Boy Scouts of America as one of 71 members. Mitt Romney said: “I feel that all people should be able to participate in the Boy Scouts of America regardless of their sexual orientation”
Mitt Romney: Supports Gays in the Boy Scouts and Abortion on Demand (Debate with Ted Kennedy)
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Mitt Romney is against discrimination in all of its evil forms.