“UPDATE. Some of the troubling parts of the article for those claiming below “oh it’s just Massachusetts”.
Troubling Part #1
Romney, despite his opposition to same-sex marriage, in May selected for a district court judgeship Stephen S. Abany, a former board member of the Massachusetts Lesbian and Gay Bar Association who organized the group’s opposition to a 1999 bill to outlaw same-sex marriage. Just two days before the nomination, Romney was lamenting the liberal tilt of the state’s bench, telling Fox News that ‘’our courts have a record here in Massachusetts, don’t they, of being a little blue and being Kerry-like.”
Talk about doing one thing and saying another.
Troubling Part #2
Another Romney choice for the bench is Marianne C. Hinkle, a registered Democrat who worked as an aide to Governor Michael S. Dukakis in the late 1970s and prosecuted John C. Salvi III in the 1994 Brookline abortion clinic shootings. Hinkle, in her application for the bench, describes herself as a longtime active member of Dignity/USA, a group that advocates for expanded gay rights in the Catholic Church and society generally.
Great. Nice moderate choice there, Mitty.
Troubling Part #3
Romney, asked if he has engaged in any horse-trading with Democratic politicians, said: ‘’So far I have not ever given any weight whatsoever to whether I think someone can make it through the Governor’s Council. I send them individuals who I feel are highly qualified and have the right judicial temperament related to crime and punishment.”
I was about to give him some leniency due to the makeup of the council, but he says it does not matter. He only cared about crime, but not other judicial issues? Wow.”
http://archive.redstate.com/blogs/mikeks/2007/dec/20/romney_appointed_liberal_judges_in_massachusetts
Like I keep saying, it just comes down to hating Obama more.
Romney, despite his opposition to same-sex marriage... Yet he recently told the Washington Post here that he believes:
"If two people of the same gender want to live together, want to have a loving relationship, even want to adopt a child ... in my view, that's something which people have the right to do, but to call that marriage is, in my view, a departure from the real meaning of the word."
What statists like Romney mean by "right" is to deny adoption agencies the right to refuse to give a child entrusted to them to a homosexual couple. If you are a landlord who would just as soon not accommodate open homosexual lifestyles in your community and refused to rent to a gay or lesbian couple who wanted to "start a family," the statist mindset of Romney is to punish you because Romney agrees with the premise that discriminating that way is immoral, and that the government has a role in preventing it.
That is enforcing a gay "right" at the sacrifice of your right to make choices you consider moral.
Hate of someone else is a real bad reason to vote for that.
ABO is risking having it in the White House as the Republican party's most powerful representative -- even worse, risking a landslide of votes for Romney that would most likely be spun into another Mitt Myth, of being elected because he was loved -- ABO would quickly be pushed into the ashheap of history.
Barring a miracle, the reality is that we're going to have one of two amoral authoritarian statists as the next president. Fear and hate are deceptive, bad guides, in choosing the best way to deal with it.