Bigotry Won out in Massachusetts
Catholic adoption agencies in Worcester, Fall River, and Springfield will not be sanctioned at this time by Governor Mitt Romney’s administration over their refusal to accept gays and lesbians as prospective adoptive parents, even though the policies violate state antidiscrimination laws. [...]
Meanwhile, a major gay rights organization also cited a future change in the political landscape to explain why it has not publicly protested the refusal of those agencies to accept gay applicants. Gary Buseck, legal director of the Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders in Boston, said his group realizes that Massachusetts will have a new governor next year, and it expects that he or she will aggressively enforce the state’s antidiscrimination laws. (source)
At the very least, wouldn’t you expect the Governor of the State of Massachusetts to uphold the laws of the state?
Maybe this is a Republican trend. After all, President Bush seems to pick and choose which laws he will uphold and which laws he will break - apparently with no penalty what so ever. And now, Romney is doing the same thing.
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Not when he's running for President and wants to pander to the furthest right wing of the Republican party. Romney has spent his entire administration trashing the state he is supposed to be representing and insulting the gay and lesbian citizens of the state with his blatant bigotry and homophobia.
At least the legislature won't even touch his bill proposal that would allow Catholic Charities to continue discriminating.
What really makes this extra repulsive is that this is the same bigot governor that dug up the long dead law requiring residency or intent of residency in Massachusetts to get married to block thousands of same-sex couples from marrying insisting that the law is the law and the governor's job is to enforce the law decrying those that suggested the law should be ignored since its original purpose was racial bigotry.