“That’s simply a tired old completely disproven lie. The SJC in no way created “same sex marriage.” Mitt Romney did.”
How?
The Legislature passed no bill, the Governor signed no bill.
The Legislature (the General Court) is despite its name is supreme over the SJC & the governor per the Mass Constitution - read it. The Legislature allowed the measure to pass, blocked its repeal by Romney. That’s a fact.
Again just scroll up to the numbers above, anything Romney did would have been overrode, if he attempted to ignore the SJC he most likely would have been impeached in Mass, and gay marriage would still have been the law of the land in Mass.
Again look at the numbers of the Dem seats when Romney was governor, the dems even increased those seats after he left because he wasn’t lib enough.
Now we have Deval Patrick.
That’s the way things are in Sodom.
Your claims have no relationship to reality whatsoever. The court never had any power to change the marriage laws, and admitted as much. The Legislature never changed changed the marriage laws. It was Romney who exercised the executive power to implement it, entirely.
In Massachusetts in 2002, Romney refused to endorse an amendment banning gay marriage, saying it was too extreme. But after the Mass Court ruling and Mitt’s ordering the justices of the peace and clerks to marry gays, he decided to push for an amendment.
He knew the amendment would not get through the Mass legislature. But he had already instituted gay marriage by his “executive order.” You remember executive orders. Mitt was kinda like Obama, kinda like Clinton, kinda like Paul “the forehead” Begala saying, “Stroke of the pen, law of the land.” It’s the fascist socialist way — Mitt’s way. Just like Obama.
You are absolutely right about the legislature being in charge of changing the law. They should have been. The courts had addressed this very matter. Court could not change the law, only the legislature could. Mitt should have waited for the legislature to act. But he didn’t. It was Mitt in his infinite lack of wisdom, who decided Massachusetts needed gay marriage. No one ordered him to change anything. But the clerks and justices were under his authority so he used his executive power to order them institute gay marriage without the help of the legislature or a change in the law.
After the gays got what they wanted, and there was no way the legislature would overturn Mitt’s executive rule, he decided to push for an amendment. After doing all he could to make gay marriage a reality, he appealed to the same legislature that would never, even to this day, allow the people of Massachusetts to get an opportunity to vote on the matter. If he had really wanted to stop this, he would never had asked the justices and clerks to change a thing.
I remember the cry that came from family organizations in Massachusetts when Mitt pulled this garbage. Now his minions are out trying to lie about his hand in all this. Mitt and every single bot and minion that crawls out from under the rocks to protect him can quit their lying. Mitt and his paid minions constant twisting the truth to favor Mitt is one of the biggest reasons why I will never vote for that lying, piece of flim flamming deluder.