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People don't remember history well. Free to Marry is a story from the Globe on the day Gay Marriage started, and it gave a good description of how Romney tried to stop it, including his brilliant move finding a loophole so he could deny marriage to non-residents:

Governor Mitt Romney, who opposes gay marriage because he says it undermines the traditional family, has said that, under a 1913 law, only residents of Massachusetts are eligible to marry same-sex partners. If couples come from other states seeking to marry, their unions will be void because same-sex marriage is illegal in the rest of the country, the governor has said. Gay-rights advocates disagree with Romney's application of the law, and are likely to test it in the courts in coming months.

And also, how he wanted to appeal the case, but he had no power to force the State AG to take it to court, and the AG refused to do so:

The governor had tried to stay the SJC decision until after a proposed ballot question banning gay marriage is decided in 2006. But Attorney General Thomas F. Reilly refused to take Romney's case to the court, saying the governor had no grounds to seek the stay.

It is clear that if Governor was a dictatorship position, Romney would have banned Gay Marriage -- and to suggest otherwise is to ignore the facts.