You are telling the fairy tales, CharlesWayne.
http://www.bizzyblog.com/2007/12/05/the-romney-deception-boiled-down/
They reported that while campaigning for governor in 2002, Romney secretly promised to the Log Cabin homosexual Republicans that when the anticipated ruling came forth from the court, that he would abdicate his constitutional duty to defend the Constitution.
And that’s exactly what he did when the Goodridge decision came forth and supposedly legalized gay marriage. The Goodridge decision didn’t even claim to legalize it. It simply declared that it was unconstitutional not to let homosexuals marry.
Now there are so many problems in treating this as law. The Massachusetts says the people are not controllable by any laws not ratified by their elected representatives in the Legislature. So bang, that means right there that the Goodridge decision is not law and nobody can treat it as law.
It says also (that) the power of suspending the laws shall be exercised only by the Legislature. Well the statutes, the marriage statutes, even Goodridge, the court opinion that everyone says “legalized gay marriage,” even that opinion says that the statute doesn’t allow gay marriage. And the attorney for the homosexual plaintiffs came out of the courtroom after that ruling and said, “The only thing that remains now for gay marriage to happen is for the Legislature to change the law.”
Well that never happened. The law in Massachusetts, the statutes, ratified by the people’s elected representatives in the Legislature, still did not allow gay marriage.
Well, what happened was Romney hired constitutional law professors and lawyers, Jay Sekulow and Mary Ann Glendon at Harvard (and some of this has never been reported, what’s happened), and they lined up and said he had no choice.
Now I happen to know some of these people like Mary Ann Glendon, a retired Massachusetts Supreme Court Justice, told him privately, told Romney privately, (that) he should ignore Goodridge, said it was not binding, it had no impact unless the Legislature changed the law.
But Romney had made promises to the Log Cabin Republicans.
Romney always opposed gay marriage, even back in 1994. But if you want to believe some blog over the truth, go right ahead. Convenient for you that it supports your opinion.
BTW, the term “reported” used to mean “told facts about”.
In the real world, in 2002 Romney was faulted for not supporting a constitutional amendment, because he said there was no way the court would legitimize same-sex marriage.
When they did, he immediately worked to pass the constitutional amendment, only to be stopped by the democrats. He even supported candidates to help him, who were rejected by the voters.
But you can believe the fantasy that all that work was some smokescreen, and that Romney’s position in 1994 was simply a ruse to help him win the Presidency in 2008..