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To: Edit35
FReeper: "He raised fees even in NH!!!!!!, and imposed socialized medicine and gay marriage."

RomneyBOT (sociopath in denial): "That 'raised fees' thing is laughable and juvenile in the extreme.
EVERY governor of every state has seen fees go up, if only to cover inflation. Romney lowered taxes where he could."

As Gov of Massachusetts, Romney managed to raise taxes on New Hampshire residents.

How Romney is that?


RomneyBOT (sociopath in denial): "His health care plan pushed private plans for all"

Romney's opening the Belmont criminal alien sanctuary and his inviting millions
of illegal crimigrants for "FREE HEALTH CARE" has bankrupted Massachusetts.
And so Romney fled Massachusetts to La Jolla where they don't know him yet.


RomneyBOT (sociopath in denial): "As for your gay marriage claim, that is more delusion. Romney didn't push for gay marriage."

Twisting words again, for your Master? The word was "IMPOSE". And Romney did.
Democrat, carpetbagger, backstabber Mitt Romney personally, as in himself, as in alone, personally destroyed the Massachusetts Constitution (the oldest in the USA).

"Experts: Credit Romney for homosexual marriage"
"What he (Governor Bishop Mitt Romney) did was exercise illegal legislative authority'

"While former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney claims he did everything possible to throttle homosexual marriage in his state – his campaign now saying he took "every conceivable step within the law to defend traditional marriage" – several constitutional experts say that just isn't so.

"What Romney did [was] he exercised illegal legislative authority," Herb Titus said of the governor's actions after the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court released its opinion in the Goodridge case in 2003. "He was bound by what? There was no order. There wasn't even any order to the Department of Public Health to do anything."

Titus, a Harvard law graduate, was founding dean of Pat Robertson's Regent University Law School. He also worked with former Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore, ...

Romney's aides have told WND that after four of the seven court members reinterpreted the definition of marriage, he believed he had no choice but to direct clerks and others to change state marriage forms and begin registering same-sex couples.

Some opponents contend that with those actions, Romney did no more or less than create the first homosexual marriages recognized in the nation. And Titus agrees."

"....But the court's decision conflicts with the constitutional philosophy of three co-equal branches of government: executive, legislative and judicial, Titus said. It also violates with the Massachusetts Constitution, which states: "The power of suspending the laws, or (suspending) the execution of the laws, ought never to be exercised but by the legislature..."

And it cannot even be derived from the opinion itself, asserts the pro-family activist group Mass Resistance, which says the decision did four things:

* First, it acknowledged that the current law does not permit same-sex marriage.

"The only reasonable explanation is that the Legislature did not intend that same-sex couples be licensed to marry. We conclude, as did the judge, that G.L. c. 207 may not be construed to permit same-sex couples to marry."

* Second, it said it is NOT striking down the marriage laws (among other things, the Massachusetts Constitution forbids a court to change laws)

"Here, no one argues that striking down the marriage laws is an appropriate form of relief."

* Third, it declared that not allowing same-sex marriages is a violation of the Massachusetts Constitution.

"We declare that barring an individual from the protections, benefits, and obligations of civil marriage solely because that person would marry a person of the same sex violates the Massachusetts Constitution."

* And fourth, given that the court is not changing any laws, the SJC gave the Legislature 180 days to "take such action as it may deem appropriate."

"We vacate the summary judgment for the department. We remand this case to the Superior Court for entry of judgment consistent with this opinion. Entry of judgment shall be stayed for 180 days to permit the Legislature to take such action as it may deem appropriate in light of this opinion."

After the Legislature did nothing during the 180 days, Romney then took action "on his own," the group said.

"Gov. Romney's legal counsel issued a directive to the Justices of the Peace that they must perform same-sex marriages when requested or 'face personal liability' or be fired," the group said."

895 posted on 05/02/2009 5:21:37 AM PDT by Diogenesis (Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum)
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To: Diogenesis
Dio, I stand in awe of you and the real work that you do. I am grateful for your presence here on FR. You don't just make charges, you do the work to document their basis in fact and evidence.

Thanks again for the work that you do.

975 posted on 05/02/2009 11:09:01 AM PDT by Finny ("Raise hell. Vote smart." -- Ted Nugent.)
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