GOP Presidential Hopeful Blamed for Massachusetts' Marriage Fiasco
by Jim Brown
May 30, 2006
(AgapePress) - - Some pro-family groups and the conservative media are being accused of covering up the fact that Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney is "the founding father of homosexual marriage' -- or so says a parents coalition leader in that state.
The Massachusetts-based Parents' Rights Coalition (PRC) claims it was Governor Romney's "illegal" executive order that imposed homosexual "marriage" in the Bay State, not the controversial Goodridge court decision in November 2003. PRC's John Haskins contends the 2008 presidential hopeful committed an impeachable act by violating several articles of the Massachusetts Constitution.
According to Haskins, PRC and the Article 8 Alliance -- another Massachusetts-based pro-family group -- notified conservative media outlets such as The Weekly Standard, National Review, and the American Spectator that Romney was personally advised in advance that he was violating the state constitution.
"The real tragedy here is that many pro-family groups and the conservative media continue to cover up for Governor Romney and ignore the plain meaning of the Massachusetts constitution," asserts Haskins, "which says that neither the governor nor any court can strike down laws -- only the Legislature can do that."
Consequently, he adds, "homosexual marriage is still illegal here in Massachusetts -- and yet it's conservatives propping it up by pretending it's legal."
A one-man, one-woman marriage law remains on the books in Massachusetts, he says, and is binding under the state's constitution. But conservatives fail to pint that out, says Haskins.
"Here in Massachusetts there are several pro-family groups that are close to the governor and [that] include prominent people who are personal friends of the governor," he explains. "And it appears that there's absolutely no price that they're not willing to pay to remain close to Governor Romney. That means they're not going to put the word out, as we've been trying to, that what he's done is exactly the opposite of what he wants the country to think he's done."
Haskins says by their silence "socially and professionally ambitious conservatives ... are covering up a huge political lie that is destroying the culture and constitutional law."
Jim Brown, a regular contributor to AgapePress, is a reporter for American Family Radio News, which can be heard online.
