Our friend Tom Blumer from Bizzy Blog thoroughly rebuts the claim that Mitt Romney had no other choice but to enforce the “decision” of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts when they issued the Goodridge decision which has been said to have “legalized gay marriage.” In fact, Tom demonstrates that it was not the MSJC who imposed “gay marraige” on Massachusetts citizens (even though the court acted unconstitutionally as well) but was Mitt Romney himself who in ordering the Justices of the Peace and Town Clerks to perform same sex marriage ceremonies violated his oath to uphold the constitution and enforce the laws of the Commonwealth.
Thanks again to Tom Blumer of Bizzy Blog for this outstanding analysis!
Tom pulls together a plethora of documentation and comes to the following conclusion:
Romney had marriage license certificates changed from “Husband†and “Wife†to “Person A†and “Person B†anyway. He didn’t have to, and further had no constitutional authority to do so.
He “ordered the town clerks, even ones with religious conscience concerns, to solemnize the marriages.†He didn’t have to, and further had no constitutional authority to do so.
In these and other actions, he “acquiesced in the SJC decision and actively authorized same-sex ‘marriage.’†He didn’t have to, and further had no constitutional authority to do so.
It is thus clear, again regardless of how one feels about the issue itself, that same-sex marriage certificates issued in Massachusetts under the Romney regime have been issued without requisite legal authority to do so (i.e., a real law voted on by the legislature and signed by the governor), and are, by definition, void.
So not only did Mitt Romney not have the required legislative authority tp implement Goodridge, the “ruling,†on its face, is objectively and irretrievably constitutionally flawed. He had a constitutional duty to the state’s citizens to ignore the “ruling,†and he failed in that duty.
And yet, somehow, Mitt Romney is considered A-OK by “conservatives†who clearly should know better.