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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRomney: If My Grandchildren Were Gay, ‘I’d Want Them To Be Happy’
I love my children, and I love my grandchildren, and of course Id want them to be happy. My view is this: individuals should be able to pursue a relationship of love and respect and raise a family as they would choose. I would like to have the term marriage continue to be associated with a relationship between one man and one woman, and that certainly doesnt prevent two people of the same gender living in a loving relationship together having a domestic partnership, if you will.
Romneys position is not new, but his disingenuous gall is telling. By amending the Constitution to define marriage narrowly as he has pledged to do he would create the very obstacles to happiness and fairness that his would-be gay grandchildren might face. As of 2004, he didnt even know that gays and lesbians had families. Though he speaks in favor of hospital visitation and other limited rights for same-sex couples, Romney continues to deny that their relationships are equal to those of heterosexual couples.
http://thinkprogress.org/lgbt/2012/09/20/879951/romney-if-my-grandchildren-were-gay-id-want-them-to-be-happy/
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Romney: If My Grandchildren Were Gay, ‘I’d Want Them To Be Happy’ (Original Post)
kpete
Sep 2012
OP
Fuck you, Mittens. You want happiness for your OWN family, but not for anyone else's.
kestrel91316
Sep 2012
#6
grasswire
(50,130 posts)1. when did he say the above statement? nt
DonViejo
(60,536 posts)2. By clicking on the link in the OP I was able to learn he made that
statement yesterday, while appearing on Univision. It's even in the first sentence of the TP article
Jennicut
(25,415 posts)3. Here is what he said in 2003:
When in 2003 the Massachusetts courts legalized same-sex marriage in the state, Mr. Romney, then governor, complained that the state had become San Francisco East. And, speaking with a sense of alarm about gay couples, he warned a conservative audience that some are actually having children born to them.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/10/us/politics/romney-reaffirms-opposition-to-marriage-or-similar-for-gay-couples.html?_r=0
Ryan is even worse on this issue.
rustydog
(9,186 posts)4. ...And then he'd send them to Michele Bachmann's husband to be "Cured"
of the gay.
Third Doctor
(1,574 posts)5. His nutty base
really deserves this. They don't believe in marriage equality at all and their collective chings are hitting the ground right now.
kestrel91316
(51,666 posts)6. Fuck you, Mittens. You want happiness for your OWN family, but not for anyone else's.
DonRedwood
(4,359 posts)7. If Mitt were my grandfather, and I am gay, I'd never talk to him again.
just sayin'