Romney has pledged to support anti gay marriage constitutional amendment

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http://headlines.agapepress.org/printver.asp

Mass. Family Advocate Applauds Romney's Support for Traditional Marriage

By Chad Groening
June 24, 2005

(AgapePress) - A Massachusetts pro-family activist says he is pleased Governor Mitt Romney is supporting a constitutional amendment that would ban both same-sex "marriage" and civil unions in his state. Kris Mineau is president of the Massachusetts Family Institute (MFI), a group that is pushing a citizens referendum to address the November 2003 ruling of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, which said that the state's constitution guarantees same-sex couples the right to marry. "We have formed a ballot question committee," the activist explains, "to pursue a citizens' initiative petition to amend the Massachusetts Constitution to clearly define marriage between a man and a woman and no other substitutes."

Mineau says he is glad Governor Romney has pledged to support the citizens' effort. "He's definitely taking a stronger stand," the head of the MFI contends, "and I would suspect that it has something to do with him trying to get more 'conservative credentialed' in a national prominence -- but I'm not complaining. I think his true colors are coming out. He comes from a conservative, moral background." According to Mineau, the key to the measure the citizens group is promoting is that it prohibits both homosexual marriage and same-sex civil unions. He notes, "The governor has always stood with us in being against civil unions and for marriage being between a man and a woman."

The pro-family advocate points out that the group's attempt last year to get a legislative constitutional amendment "was thwarted by the legislature when they changed the wording to establish civil unions fully equal to marriage along with the definition of marriage between a man and a woman." He says MFI and other marriage defenders "see that as a totally flawed and unacceptable amendment."

Mineau says the current citizens' initiative being advanced by MFI is designed to replace a 2003 measure passed by Massachusetts lawmakers, which allowed legalized civil unions. If the state legislature approves the pro-traditional marriage measure, it would appear on the state's ballot in November 2008.


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Chad Groening, a regular contributor to AgapePress, is a reporter for American Family Radio News, which can be heard online.

[paineinthearse]

1. Related NYT article

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F70D11FF3F5F0C748DDDAF0894DD404482

A New Challenge to Same-Sex Marriages

By PAM BELLUCK (NYT) 902 words
Late Edition - Final , Section A , Page 16 , Column 1

More than a year after gay marriage became legal in Massachusetts, Gov. Mitt Romney said Thursday that he would support a newly proposed amendment to the state Constitution that would overturn that ... ''My view is that marriage should be defined as a relationship between a man and a woman,''...

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2. One nation, under God...

with liberty and justice for all straight people.

Our America, people!!

:beer: :puke:

[Carolab]

3. Hmm.

"...to clearly define marriage between a man and a woman and no other substitutes."

What about transgender?

[paineinthearse]

4. Show me "transgener" in the bible

...and I may understand the contempt.

:shrug:

[whalerider55]

5. safe and opportunistic

romney won't see the amendment come to him through the legislature.

as for a citizens petition, it could happen, but it would take a lot of work and there may not be enough conservatives to mad-dog it through.

the court has spoken, the world hasn't ended, and there a bunch of gay conservatives who have gotten married already arthur ("i hate clinton, I work for helms and i support gay-bashing) finklestein is the tip of the iceberg. The world hasn't ended here because of it.

i'm betting romeny doesn't run for re-election- he could very easily lose, and that might put a crimp in his yearning for the white house.

and somehow, i find it hard to believe his newly buffed conservative credentials will help him. i just can't imagine the south embracing someone of the mormon persuasion- ain't they polygamous? well, there is a lot of that in the old testament.

then again, i could be wrong.

whalerider

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6. I try not to descriminate anyone of any religion but...

If romney beleives that a man can marry as many women as he wants but he can't marry another man, he is............whacked.