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.

[Fawn]

Think about the judges at least......

[Linda Frances]

When you vote for the lesser of two evils, your still voting for evil. No me, romney is obama in republican clothing.

[Linda Frances]

When you vote for the lesser of two evils, your still voting for evil. Not me, romney is obama in republican clothing.

[GladesGuru]

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

Not true, insofar as I know, but I’m not Mormon.

However, I am sure that using Queer Power to diminish the traditional family IS a central goal of collectivism, be it communism, liberalism, progressivism, ad nauseam.

When Romnuzt went the extra mile to authorize queer marriage, his personal principles were demonstrated.

[SoConPubbie]

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.

First things first.

1. The primaries are just over half over. There are still 46% of the delegates available.
2. This is a conservative site, and a Republican site, if and when the Republicans are running a conservative.
3. Jim made it clear yesterday that this site STILL is NOT supporting Romney here.

You don't mind if we make it our first priority to beat the lying, left-wing, Progressive Liberal Mitt Romney first so that we don't face an inevitable loss to Obama?

[SoConPubbie]

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.

Oh, and by the way, we're not "trash"ing Romney, this is the TRUTH of his record.

And to fully answer your question, yes, we will continue to post the truth about Romney because we aren't voting for the Crypto-Communist Obama or his 2nd cousing, the lying, left-wing, Progressive Liberal Mitt Romney.

Personally, I'm with Alexander Hamilton:

"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

[Bikkuri]

Please look at #13....

[Linda Frances]

The Boston Globe confirmed that as a so-called “Republican” governor of Massachusetts, Mitt Romney appointed 14 Democrats, 13 Independents and only 9 Republicans as judges. That’s 27 of 36, or 3 of every 4, Romney judges that are liberal. So if President Romney someday appoints even one Supreme Court Justice, there’s a 75 percent chance they’ll vote with Kagan and Sotomayor 100 percent of the time. If we wouldn’t trust Romney himself on the Supreme Court, why let him appoint more Massachusetts Democrats to the federal bench?

[Fawn]

Don’t twist my words...I didn’t say not to post truths about him.....

[SoConPubbie]

Think about the judges at least......

Well Fawn, you're out of luck with that issue as well.

He nominated 27 left-wing, Progressive Liberals out of 36 nominations.

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.”

[Fawn]

Ok..you win. You convinced me. I won’t vote either.

[Fawn]

You're absolutely right.....and how dare he only appoint 9 Republicans as judges. Obama would do the same thing! I'm not voting either. It's all or nothing for my candidate too. 100% PURE conservative and nothing else. Santorum and Newt won't qualify either now :( Newt with Nancy Pelosi and Santorum with his love of social programs and pork belly spending!
I'm not going to think about this election anymore...it's over.

[SoConPubbie]

Don’t twist my words...I didn’t say not to post truths about him.....

Then why insinuate that we are trashing him?

[Fawn]

Then why insinuate that we are trashing him?

I didn't. Why don't you read what I said again genius and see if you can determine why your statement is incorrect:
I do hope that if Romney ends up being our nominee, that this site won’t trash him.

P.S. Are you 100% conservative?

[COBOL2Java]

Think about the judges at least......

You mean like the leftists Governor Romney appointed in Massachusetts?

[trisham]

Why do you care?

[COBOL2Java]

I do hope that if Romney ends up being our nominee, that this site won’t trash him.

If that's what you want, then you're on the wrong website. Maybe there's a RINO site more to your liking.

Given the way Romney has trashed conservative candidates, hiring goon squads of flying monkeys to take out everyone but himself, if there's someone who absolutely DESERVES to be trashed, it's him.

[cajungirl]

I guess you want another four years of Obama.

[cajungirl]

I guess you want another four years of Obama.

[cajungirl]

I guess you want another four years of Obama.