Romney’s Insensitivity To LGBT People: ‘I Didn’t Know You Had Families’
Source: ThinkProgress
Boston Spirit magazine has dug a bit deeper into Mitt Romneys past interactions with LGBT people, particularly during his time as governor. Many of these stories are known: his firing of two state employees ostensibly for marrying their same-sex partners, his dissolution of the Governors Commission on Gay and Lesbian Youth, his blocking of an anti-bullying guide because it contained the words bisexual and transgender, and his testimony against marriage equality to the Senate Judiciary Committee after the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled the states ban was unconstitutional. But this new profile illustrates a more profound level of insensitivity to the experience of LGBT people than his past position statements suggest.
David Wilson and Julie Goodridge, two of the plaintiffs whose case led to the legalization of marriage equality in Massachusetts, described meeting with Romney to discuss their experiences. According to Wilson, it was like talking to a robot. No expression, no feeling. At one point, Romney remarked, I didnt know you had families. Goodridge recalls her final exchange with the governor, which proved to her that he had no capacity for empathy:
GOODRIDGE: Governor Romney, tell me what would you suggest I say to my 8 year-old daughter about why her mommy and her ma cant get married because you, the governor of her state, are going to block our marriage?
ROMNEY: I dont really care what you tell your adopted daughter. Why dont you just tell her the same thing youve been telling her the last eight years.
Romney described the meeting to the press as pleasant, as Goodridge cried.
Read more: http://thinkprogress.org/lgbt/2012/09/11/831201/romneys-insensitivity-to-lgbt-people-i-didnt-know-you-had-families/
SoapBox
(18,791 posts)For the fun of it, I'll say it again, IDIOT!
southernyankeebelle
(11,304 posts)DesertRat
(27,995 posts)dhill926
(16,343 posts)very much looking forward to dancing on his political grave.......
elbloggoZY27
(283 posts)The GOP is extremely intolerant.
So what else is new.
olddad56
(5,732 posts)Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)is to tight,you fake insensitive Mormon twit.
sakabatou
(42,155 posts)Gormy Cuss
(30,884 posts)that Goodridge doesn't have a "normal" family.
gordianot
(15,238 posts)DemKittyNC
(743 posts)Did he really say that? I don't really care what you tell your adopted daughter? My god how heartless!
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)I hate him more with each passing day. I can't even believe he said that. What a f**ktard.
valerief
(53,235 posts)calimary
(81,317 posts)To hell with how it impacts families. What does it do for business - especially if the business isn't "comfortable" with a couple or a family that "doesn't look like them."
SHEESH.
You don't run a COUNTRY with a mind focused ONLY on cost-benefit analysis. You run for-profit outfits on cost-benefit analysis, because the reason for being is profit. The government is NOT built on for-profit motivation!!!!
goclark
(30,404 posts)He is the same today...cold fish and pure evil.
tonekat
(1,815 posts)A tabula rasa, he would do his masters billing as commanded. No emotions to get in the way there. Prick.
pnwmom
(108,980 posts)together with grandiosity.
Romney's a classic.
BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)This sociopathic creep must NOT get the win.
There is just NO way!
god, I just am at a loss for words--who the hell treats other people that way????? Psycho/Sociopaths, that's who.
Festivito
(13,452 posts)Incredible ignorance.
xxqqqzme
(14,887 posts)Say it often and when others can hear you - loser.
TrogL
(32,822 posts)How in hell did he get elected in the first place?
"I don't really care..." sums it all up.