Posted on 03/26/2012 10:57:16 AM PDT by SoConPubbie
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, now a WND columnist, to draft the Constitution Restoration Act, which sought to take out of federal court jurisdiction cases that involved public officials that acknowledged God as the sovereign source of law, liberty, or government.
He’s written “God, Man and Law: The Biblical Principles,” and contributed to “Judicial Tyranny: The New Kings of America?” and has been admitted to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court and a multitude of state and federal court jurisdictions.
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The Repblican establishment and a majority of its voters would have us trade one filthy liar for another.
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