Romney Personally Issued Marriage Licenses to 189 Same-Sex Couples (October 4, 2011)

RomneyExposed.com ^ | October 4, 2011

[SoConPubbie]

Every since Mitt Romney first tossed his hat into the presidential sweepstakes in 2007, he has repeatedly maintained that he opposes same-sex marriages and has always portrayed himself as a champion of traditional marriage.

However, in an incident that has gone mostly unreported, Romney, as Governor of Massachusetts, personally issued at least 189 one-day special marriage licenses to same-sex couples in 2005. He likely issued a similar number of licenses in both 2004 and 2006 but the state records for these years are not easily available. One-day marriage licenses are in effect permits issued to a couple allowing them to designate anyone they choose to officiate at the wedding. These special one-day marriage licenses are not to be confused with the thousands of regular marriage licenses granted to same-sex couples by Justices of the Peace and town clerks by order of Governor Romney in the aftermath of the Goodridge same-sex marriage decision.

More than any other action by Romney, these special licenses demonstrated where his heart was on the same-sex marriage issue since they were purely discretionary. There was no mandate forcing Romney to issue such licenses. This calls into question his authenticity as an alleged social conservative candidate.

Romney began issuing the one-day marriage licenses shortly after the Massachusetts Supreme Court issued the Goodridge homosexual marriage decision. The court urged the legislature to codify its decision but to this day, this has never occurred. The marriage statutes on the books today remain the same – only male/female marriages are legal.

Incredibly, even though the state legislature never codified the Goodridge decision, Gov. Romney unilaterally ordered his Department of Public Health to print new marriage licenses for same-sex couples and ordered all Town Clerks and Justices of the Peace to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples or lose their jobs.

[SoConPubbie]

And the Un-Masking of Mitt Romney, the left-wing, Progressive Liberal, continues . . .
"If we must have an enemy at the head of Government, let it be one whom we can oppose, and for whom we are not responsible, who will not involve our party in the disgrace of his foolish and bad measures." - Alexander Hamilton

[IbJensen]

Apparently sodomites marrying others of the same sex is one of the tenets of Mormonism.

[Marathoner]

We are soo screwed either way. Either shot in the face by an open Marxist or stabbed in the back by a phony conservative.

[presently no screen name]

Mormonism is rooted in evil. Evil doing what evil does - the way the LIAR, Mitt, does things. He’s following his master, satan, the father of lies. Mitt is satan’s pawn in a suit, nothing more or less, IMO. He is the great deceiver!

[grundle]

I don’t think that Ron Paul has specifically ruled out running as a third party or independent candidate. I could see myself voting for him in 2012 - I did write him in in 2008.

[Cicero]

Romney wasn’t just pro-gay-marriage. He was the pioneer. Massachusetts was the first gay marriage state, and it was entirely his doing. Entirely. The state supreme court ordered the legislature to put through gay marriage, but they didn’t. Romney did it, all on his own. This is just one more piece of evidence.

Romney has that gay look. I suspect, although I don’t know, that he is gay. Certainly he is a gay activist, politically.

The Mormons are, or were, conservative. They opposed the gay marriage mandate in California. But, regretably, they also do whatever their leaders command them to do. They have repeatedly voted for Dingy Harry. And if Bishop Romney tells them that you can marry four gay husbands and have your own planet, and even have children, since you are now a God, they will follow his lead. That’s what they’ve always done—whatever the leadership commands.

[Cicero]

By the way, Romney imposed gay marriage by fiat on Massachusetts, and got away with it because it’s such a liberal state. That is yet another way in which he is like Obama.

As he has shown, if he can’t get something through in accordance with the law, and with the approval of the legislature, then he’ll just ram it through anyway.

Just like Obama.

[ScottinVA]

Running out of stories, SoCon? You’re cycling back to ones you’ve run before.

Really..you can call off the jihad now... Romney’s not going to win in November.

[Williams]

In less important news Barack Hussein Obama destroyed the United States of America and our kids died in a nuclear war.

Luckily we ignored Romney’s pledge to maintain a military second to none.

In other news, the Obama Supreme Court ruled that under the South African constitution and UN Anti Genocide Treaties, we deserved to be nuked.

[RIghtwardHo]

Yeah. Hold your nose. *eye roll*

Never. Ever.

[COBOL2Java]

Hey, it’s all good, right? I mean - that was 2 or 3 Etch-A-Sketch shakes ago!

[SoConPubbie]

In other news, the Obama Supreme Court ruled that under the South African constitution and UN Anti Genocide Treaties, we deserved to be nuked.

Well, you can scratch judicial appointments off your list as something Romney would be better at.

His own record disputes your claim.

He appointed 27 left-wing, extreme progressive Liberal out of 36 appointments.

Legal analysts say candidate Romney is different from Gov. Romney.

Liberty Counsel Action Vice President Matt Barber said Romney’s appointments were constitutional “living document” poster children.

“Many of Romney’s appointments were not only liberal, not only Democrats, but were radical counter-constitutionalists. How on earth can we expect that, as president, he would be any different?” Barber asked rhetorically.

“Actions speak louder than words, and Mitt Romney’s actions as governor scream from the rooftops that he cannot be trusted with this most important of presidential responsibilities.”

Barber cites two specific examples of Romney’s radical appointments.

“As governor of Massachusetts, Mitt Romney not only failed in this regard, he appointed a number of very liberal, if not radical, ‘living, breathing’-minded judges to the bench,” Barber said.

“Two that come to mind were extreme homosexualists Marianne C. Hinkle and Stephen Abany,” he said. “They both had a long history of pro-gay activism, yet Romney didn’t hesitate to put them on the bench.”

“These are people who outrageously believe the postmodern notion that newfangled ‘gay rights’ trump our constitutionally guaranteed First Amendment rights,” he said.

Baldwin agreed, citing Romney’s statements about the two requirements he actually used when selecting judges.

“Romney did focus on two criteria: their legal experience and whether they would be tough on crime. In other words, the nominee could be a gay activist or a pro-big government, pro-quota, pro-gun control Democrat Party hack who detests every judicial principle treasured by our founding fathers,” Baldwin said. “But if he happens to be tough on crime and have prosecutorial experience, he gets past the Romney filter. Many of Romney’s nominees fit that description.”

Baldwin added that Romney did have some ideological criteria for many of his nominees:

“It was criteria commonly used by the left. For starters, his nominees were mostly pro-abortion. Indeed, while campaigning for governor in 2002, Romney told the National Abortion Rights Action League (NARAL) that his judicial nominees would more likely protect abortion rights than would those of a Democrat Governor, according to notes from a person attending this meeting.”

Another Romney criteria, Baldwin explained, was “diversity.”

“The other criteria consistently emphasized by Gov. Romney in deciding judicial selections was ‘diversity.’ This is the silly notion that judgeships should reflect the population in terms of race and gender and even sexual orientation, regardless of a person’s judicial philosophy,” he said. “Clearly, the use of diversity quotas demonstrates Romney’s lack of a coherent conservative worldview.”

[Maverick68]

I just don’t know what to say to someone who thinks Romney is worse than Obama.
Fact is, we are simply faced with the lesser of two evils.
Barack Hussein Obama is a hate-filled racist who will have NOTHING stopping him from ruling like a tyrant if he wins re-election.....what’s the use in maintaining the integrity of our party if the govt. does away with elections?

[COBOL2Java]

Barack Hussein Obama is a hate-filled racist who will have NOTHING stopping him from ruling like a tyrant if he wins re-election.....what’s the use in maintaining the integrity of our party if the govt. does away with elections?

You forgot the 40 years of darkness, earthquakes and volcanos! Rivers and seas boiling! My God man, don't forget the rivers and seas boiling if Obama's reelected!

[sand lake bar]

A few facts, courtesy of Wikipedia:

At the beginning of his governorship, Romney opposed same-sex marriage and civil unions, but advocated tolerance and supported some domestic partnership benefits.[143][151][152]

Faced with the dilemma of choosing between same-sex marriage or civil unions after the November 2003 Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court decision legalizing same-sex marriages (Goodridge v. Department of Public Health), Romney reluctantly backed a state constitutional amendment in February 2004 that would have banned same-sex marriage but still allow civil unions, viewing it as the only feasible way to ban same-sex marriage in Massachusetts.[153]

In May 2004, Romney instructed town clerks to begin issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples, but citing a 1913 law that barred out-of-state residents from getting married in Massachusetts if their union would be illegal in their home state, no marriage licenses were to be issued to out-of-state same-sex couples not planning to move to Massachusetts.[151][154]

In June 2005, Romney abandoned his support for the compromise amendment, stating that the amendment confused voters who oppose both same-sex marriage and civil unions.[151]

Instead, Romney endorsed a petition effort led by the Coalition for Marriage & Family that would have banned same-sex marriage and made no provisions for civil unions.[151] In 2004 and 2006, he urged the U.S. Senate to vote in favor of the Federal Marriage Amendment.[155][156]

[Fawn]

I do hope that if Romney ends up being our nominee, that this site won’t trash him. He’s STILL better than OBAMA. The focus has to be on getting Obozo out.

[COBOL2Java]

I do hope that if Romney ends up being our nominee, that this site won’t trash him. He’s STILL better than OBAMA. The focus has to be on getting Obozo out.

You hear that, Jim? We must all get behind Bishop Romney if he's the nominee! Pass around the happy faces!

[StonyBurk]

Romney - a paler shade of Obama.Mormons and Muslims have a lot in common and Romney has the undying support of the Republican
elite. Except the Lord of Hosts had preserved a very small remnant(sperma)we would have all been as Sodom and like unto Gomorrah.”as the prophet wrote.

[GenXteacher]

Keep it up! Those who advocate Romney need to understand the true price of political expediency.

[Mad Dawgg]

"I do hope that if Romney ends up being our nominee, that this site won’t trash him. He’s STILL better than OBAMA"

To me the choice of voting for Romney or Obama is like the choice of eating a two inch dog turd or a one and three quarter inch dog turd.

Myself I am tired of eating shit when I vote for POTUS. So I ain't gonna anymore.