Today the Rev. Ted Pike of www.truthtellers.org, sent out an alert about Mitt Romney, the wanna-be Republican nominee for President. WND (World Net Daily) had their own write-up on this issue a couple weeks ago, as did MassResistance. So, where has the main stream media been on this? Too many big names were involved for the MSM to duck it. Those names are listed on www.MassResistance.org within the forty-four signers of a hand delivered letter to Mitt Romney before he left office. The following is the one page summery that Rev. Ted Pike sent out a link to in his 'Alert' today:

The damage done while Mitt Romney was governor of Massachusetts, simply put, needs reversing.

What was that damage? The damage was Romney's order for government clerks to hand out marriage licenses for same-sex marriages. Reportedly, the order was also for officials to perform these marriages or to resign, forcing state employees to break state law. (Governors cannot make laws.)

"[T]he people of this commonwealth are not controllable by any other laws than those to which their constitutional representative body have given their consent." (Mass. Const. Part I, Article X)

Four judges out of seven in the Goodridge trial handed down an opinion that state legislatures should vote to allow the issuing of marriage licenses for same-sex marriage. Problem was, the state law makers would not come together to vote on it and Romney did not choose to force them. Instead he took matters into his own hands and made his now infamous orders, then claimed he had to do it.

Reports have it that Romney had planned all along to help out this less-than-righteous cause. A 1994 letter by Romney during a senate race has him pledging to be a "bigger supporter of homosexuals" than the incumbent senator. Rojo, an online site, quotes Tony Perkins, the president of the highly conservative Family Research Council, as having said Romney will "have a hard time overcoming this." Click: http://ww.rojo.com/story/a8RJAFcH8H1CMIUR  

A recently publicized letter submitted to Romney before he left office, asserts discrepancies between his orders and the state  constitution, using excerpts from the constitution and court rulings.  While refuting Romney's actions, it urged him to reverse the resulting offense to the state constitution and rule of law before leaving office.

The letter, the work of numerous activists and attorneys, overseen by www.massresistance.org, and headed up by the Parents’ Rights Coalition, is said to have been signed by forty-four signatories, some of whom are quite prominent in the conservative movement. It calls into question Romney's legal stance that he opposed same-sex marriage. Pointing out that  the state statute forbids such and that only state legislature can make laws, it attests that Romney went beyond his constitutional authority, even beyond the expectations of the collective liberal opinion of the four judges. 

On January 2nd, Massachusetts lawmakers kept alive a proposed constitutional amendment that would put a stop to same-sex marriages. It is the first vote for approval that is needed for the amendment to appear on the ballot in 2008. As long as it is approved by the next legislative session, it will then be put on the ballot for Massachusetts's voters in 2008. However, reports of 8,000 same-sex marriages that already exist in Massachusetts would remain to be treated as legal.

To date, Mitt Romney has not responded to the hand delivered letter to the governor's office. However, it is obvious that nothing pertaining to same-sex marriage was reversed before he left that office. The letter is said to be part of an ongoing effort to correct the wrong done.

Along with an amendment to the state constitution denouncing such 'marriages,' there needs to be a declaration stating that marriage licenses issued for same-sex marriages in Massachusetts are, in fact, in violation of state law and are therefore not legally binding.

"Error is a stranger to no man. Courage to correct errors, visits only a few."

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© Copyright 2007 Debra J.M. Smith of: www.InformingChristians.com