He's been doing that for a long time.
"Marriage is more than a personally rewarding social custom. It is also critical for the well-being of a civilization. That is why it is so important to preserve traditional marriage – the joining together of one man and one woman. As president, Mitt will not only appoint an Attorney General who will defend the Defense of Marriage Act – a bipartisan law passed by Congress and signed by President Clinton – but he will also champion a Federal Marriage Amendment to the Constitution defining marriage as between one man and one woman."
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Nine conservative leaders from Massachusetts recently praised Mitt Romney’s record on protecting life, defending traditional marriage, and standing for religious freedom. The nine leaders wrote the following letter on Mitt Romney’s record in Massachusetts:
"Governor Romney immediately and strongly condemned the November 18, 2003 Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) decision that legalized “same-sex marriage” in our state. More importantly, he followed up on that denunciation with action – action that saved our nation from a constitutional crisis over the definition of marriage. He and his staff identified and enforced a little-known 1913 law that allowed them to order local clerks not to issue marriage licenses to out-of-state couples. Absent this action, homosexual couples would surely have flooded into Massachusetts from other states to get “married” and then demanded that their home states recognize the “marriages,” putting the nation only one court decision away from nationalizing “same-sex marriage.”…"In 2004 he lobbied hard, before a very hostile legislature, for a constitutional amendment protecting marriage – an amendment later changed by the legislature to include civil unions, which the Governor and many marriage amendment supporters opposed. Working with the Governor, we were successful in defeating this amendment.
"Provided strong, active support for a record-setting citizen petition drive in 2005 to advance a clean constitutional amendment defining marriage as the union of one man and one woman. The petition drive collected the largest number of signatures in Massachusetts history.
"Rallied thousands of citizens around the state to focus public and media attention on the failure of legislators, through repeated delays, to perform their constitutional obligation and vote on the marriage amendment. In November of 2006, Gov. Romney held the largest State House rally in Massachusetts history with over 7000 supporters of traditional marriage.
"Filed suit before the Supreme Judicial Court asking the court to clarify the legislators’ duty to vote and failing that, to place the amendment on the 2008 ballot. That lawsuit, perhaps more than any other single action, was by all accounts instrumental in bringing the ultimate pressure on the legislators to vote. The SJC unanimously ruled that the Legislature must vote and the historic vote was taken on January 2, 2007 winning legislative support. This cleared a major hurdle in the three year effort to restore traditional marriage in the Commonwealth…"
[Signed]
Rita Covelle
President, Morality in Media MassachusettsGerald D. D’Avolio
Former Executive Director, Massachusetts Catholic ConferenceRaymond L. Flynn
Former U.S. Ambassador to the Holy SeeProfessor Mary Ann Glendon
Harvard Law School
Former U.S. Ambassador to the Holy SeeKristian Mineau
President, Massachusetts Family InstituteDr. Roberto Miranda
COPAHNI Fellowship of Hispanic Pastors of New EnglandJames F. Morgan
Chairman, Institute for Family DevelopmentJoseph Reilly
Former Chairman of the Board, Massachusetts Citizens for LifeThomas A. Shields
Chairman, Coalition for Marriage and Family
See post 31.
The always radically pro-homosexual agenda, Mitt Romney did not suddenly find a homosexual goal that he did not share, instead, as Governor, he allowed homosexual marriage to start under his watch, he even participated, by issuing special licenses. “Boston Globe reports Romney issued special Governor’s ceremonial marriage licenses to 189 same-sex couples in 2005 (including to homosexual activist state senator), claiming he did not refuse because he was evenly applying the “statute”. [Note: There is no new statute establishing same-sex marriage.]”
More on Mitt and homosexual “marriage” from National Review, 2004.
http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/210678/missing-governor/hadley-arkes
No, he has not. He continues to support the gay agenda to degrade marriage.
6-13-2011 debate went to great lengths to say it was a state’s right.
He did reverse that on 8-11-2011 because what one state recognizes in this regard ties the other states’ hands. That’s the trouble. He is saying good things (now) more often than not, but he has a record of saying what he thinks people want to hear. He’s been all over the place on gay marriage (destroying marriage) in the last year.