The Making of a Bigot

Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney recently said this on an issue of Hardball, the Chris Matthews show. Romney started out saying that he would support equality and that he didn’t discriminate. Then, after full marriage became available in his state of Massachusetts, and he started traveling around the country in an effort to make his name known (presumably for a run for the presidency in 2008), his true colors came out. He wants neither gay marriage or civil unions for us. In other words, he wants nothing at all for us.

So what if we are denied hospital visitation rights, the right to even write an obituary for our partner (yes, that comes with marriage), the right to make funeral arrangements, survivor benefits... the list goes on and on. I myself didn’t fully understand all of this until we spoke to our lawyer about all the little things that marriage offers.

Romney would deny us all of that. He is nothing but a low life bigot. My hope is that people will see him for what he is - sooner than later. I usually don’t resort to name calling of this sort, but this man deserves it. He’s earned it. I hope he gets what he deserves - a complete defeat if he decides to run for governor again, and especially if he runs for president in 2008. If he were to become president, that would make him the first Mormon president in our history.