NOT FAIR, GOVERNOR: Boston Globe editorial

IN ATTEMPTING to make points with national conservative audiences, Governor Romney is denigrating gay families, practicing divisive, mean-spirited politics. He is also peddling ignorance.

To say, as he did last week in Utah, that gay marriage is "a blow to the family" misrepresents the commitment lived by same-sex couples here and all over the world. To say, as he did in South Carolina two weeks ago, that gay couples "are actually having children born to them" castigates a loving relationship as somehow shameful. ...

Would Romney support dissolving that child's family? Would he prevent gay couples from adopting needy children -- products of often abusive homes or dissolved heterosexual unions?

Romney press spokesman Felix Browne answered "no" to both questions in a phone interview Tuesday but adds that while the governor realizes that an intact home with a mother and a father is "not the only environment where children are raised in the Commonwealth," he does feels that such a home is "the ideal environment."

That kind of thinking relegates gay couples and their children to second-class citizenship. It is the kind of thinking that barred black people from white lunch counters and kept women in the secretarial pool. It is the kind of thinking that had some people attacking Romney on the basis of his religion in his 1994 Senate bid -- something this page deplored.

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