Then why was signed into law while he was gov?
He ordered county clerks to issue gay marriage licenses, yet the legislature had never made such a law.
He did what the court had ordered the legislature to fix. The legislature refused.
So Romney stepped in and saved the day for gay marriage!
It wasn’t.
It was installed by a change of definition of words, using the existing law, by a ruling of the Supreme Court.
Notwithstanding some poor arguments otherwise.
He certainly had differing views about individuals that are gay than some conservatives, but never supported gay marriage or civil unions. (he ended up signing off on a marriage amendmend with civil unions, because that’s all he could get out of the pro-gay-marriage legislature — and then that same legislature ended up voting it down by 75%).