Romney created 'gay' marriage, family groups say
01/16/2007Nearly four dozen pro-family leaders and activists have made public their direct challenge to former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, who is considering a run for the presidency in 2008, to document his opposition to homosexual marriages.
And they say he ignored them.
According to the organization MassResistance.org, the leaders hand-delivered a letter to the former governor on Dec. 20, before he left office, documenting why they believe he voluntarily instituted directives that created homosexual “marriages” in that state, even though he did not have to.
They asked him to act in response, and they say he didn’t even acknowledge the letter.
Among those challenging Romney were Paul Weyrich, of the Free Congress Foundation; Sandy Rios, of Culture Campaign; Robert Knight, who drafted the federal Defense of Marriage Act; Linda Harvey, of Mission America; Rev. Ted Pike, of the National Prayer Network; Randy Thomasson, of Campaign for Children and Families; Peter LaBarbera, of Americans for Truth; David E. Smith, of the Illinois Family Institute; Joe Glover, of the Family Policy Network; Paul Cameron, of the Family Research Institute; John Haskins’ of the Parents’ Rights Coalition, and others.
The group’s letter cited state constitutional provisions and court rulings, showing that while the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ordered the creation of homosexual marriages, it did not have the authority to order the governor to institute them or the legislature to create them.
The letter had called on Romney to reverse his “erroneous directives which began homosexual ‘marriages’ through an executive order” but signers noted that Romney declined to act.
“Under the Massachusetts Constitution, only the Legislature may change the statutes,” the group said. “Of his own volition, Romney issued “constitutionally fraudulent ‘homosexual marriage’ licenses’” and with no authorizing legislation, he ordered marriage licenses to be changed from “husband” and “wife,” to “Party A” and “Party B.”
Cited as support in the letter is the legal and constitutional research posted by “Robert Paine” on his RobertPaine.blogspot.com.
“Mitt Romney is not the ‘Defender of Marriage and the Constitution he is posing as,” said Haskins. “There is no question that awareness of Romney’s abuse of power, in not even waiting for the legislature to change the law, is growing among conservative leaders and in the pro-family grass roots nationally.”
I know that, when Romney decided to run for President, groups started making this claim. What I am saying is that WHEN it happened, nobody made this argument. It is an argument from 4 years later. It is a re-writing of history. It is certainly an interesting argument, but it is interesting for example that your article is from WorldNetDaily, and one of my posts which claimed the SJC created gay marriage was from WorldNetDaily, and made no mention at all of this new argument made in 2007.
If the argument made here was valid, SOMEONE in 2004 would have actually filed a lawsuit to stop the Governor from committing this illegal act. Nobody did. Not even the lawyers who are now claiming that it was illegal and should have been stopped.
Every article I see that makes this claim leads directly back to MassResistance. But I have found no reference in 2003 or 2004 to MassResistance making this argument. Maybe you can find one.
The legislature did not change the laws; the argument is over whether they had to change the law to CREATE gay marriage, or to STOP it. In 2003, everybody said they had to act to stop it. in 2007 MassResistance argued that they had to act to create it.