Parents rebuke Romney for gay marriage comments

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http://news.bostonherald.com/localPolitics/view.bg?articleid=70416

Parents rebuke Romney for gay marriage comments
By Associated Press
Friday, February 25, 2005

BOSTON - Gay and straight couples and their children delivered a letter to Gov. Mitt Romney on Friday condemning his recent remarks to South Carolina Republicans as ridiculing same-sex families. Julie and Hillary Goodridge, lead plaintiffs in the lawsuit that led to the legalization of gay marriage in Massachusetts, led a contingent of about 40 people who delivered the letter to the governor's office and requested a meeting. But Romney was out of state to deliver a speech in Utah. ``You are certainly entitled to court the right wing of your party,'' the letter read, ``but we respectfully ask that you not do so on the backs of Massachusetts families headed by same-sex couples.''

Speaking Monday to fellow Republicans in Spartanburg, S.C., Romney said same-sex couples ``are actually having children born to them. ... It's not right on paper. It's not right in fact. Every child has a right to a mother and a father.'' Though Romney has declined to say whether he plans to run for president in 2008, the South Carolina speech was broadcast live on C-SPAN and was widely seen as an early step in establishment himself as a candidate.

The governor ``can do what he needs to do to enhance his career,'' said Julie Goodridge, 47, who brought the couple's 9-year-old daughter Annie to the Statehouse. But ``it's completely inappropriate for him to make derogatory comments about families in the commonwealth.''

``The governor has made clear that he does not support gay marriage,'' Romney spokeswoman Shawn Feddeman said. ``However, he has consistently advocated respect and tolerance for gays and lesbians and their families.''

[BrklynLiberal]

1. I thought maybe Romney's own parents rebuked him!

How did that Mormon from Utah ever get to be Guv of Mass???

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2. 'Every child has the right to a mother and father.'

Hey, dipshit, why don't you address the problem of divorce in your own state, whose divorce rate is almost TWICE Massachusetts. What about those kids? Don't they deserve both parents? No, of course not, they are your constituents, no insulting them.

[Ian David]

3. I've been looking all over for the Spongebob Rainbow pic. Thanks!

Anyway, if children deserve both a mother and a father, then why do we keep sending so many fathers off to die in pointless wars?