Mitt Romney, in an interview with the Boston Herald, said he would support a constitutional amendment that could create a complex three-tier system of marriage — maintaining marriage rights for straight couples, allowing gays who have already married to remain married, but barring future same-sex marriages.
“I think it would keep intact those marriages which had occurred under the law but maintain future plans based on marriage being between a man and a woman,” Romney said.
Well, how nice. He would let those of us who are married to the person we love stay married. Generous of him. Then there's the part where he would deny future nuptials for gays and lesbians.
Perhaps he's trying to look a bit less hateful after his recent disastrous "meeting" on the campaign trail with gay Vietnam vet, Bob Garon. I don't think it's working.
Mitt Romney doesn't discriminate against gays...except when he does. Mitt's a funny guy, both of them.
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Mitt Romney completely ignores the separation-of-church-and-state principle.
ReplyDeleteHe so scorns the 31 million Americans who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender, that he this week proposed 3 new classes of citizenship: 1st class with full marriage rights (opposite-sex couples only); 2nd class with partial rights (legally wed same-sex couples, 2004-2012 only); and 3rd class with no rights (everyone else). His policy is that LGBT people are only partial citizens, entitled to only partial protection from SOME discrimination, but never full protection from all discrimination.
He thinks that his religion's supernatural superstitions about marriage should also become the national law for everybody, including the vast majority who don't even belong to or believe in his religion. He believes that discrimination against some people is just fine, so long as it’s his religion doing the discriminating. That's not a democracy; that’s a theocracy.