Mitt Romney is criticized by gay-rights groups for blocking routine birth certificate approvals for same-sex parents
By: Murray Waas
Thursday, October 25, 2012
The president of the nation’s largest gay-rights advocacy group criticized Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney Thursday after the Globe reported how, as governor of Massachusetts, he blocked routine recording of births to same-sex parents.
"Mitt Romney has stood before the American people multiple times and said he does not support discrimination against LGBT people – and that is an outright lie,” said Chad Griffin, the president of Human Rights Campaign, a civil-rights group headquartered in Washington." Griffin goes on to explain that Romney has denied birth certificates of those a part of the LGBT. It has also been said that Romney's own Department of Public Health has rewritten statutes regarding birth certificates of individuals who have same-sex parents as " ''father’’ and write in ''second parent’’ on birth certificates, in pen." The Department wanted to label the document as "father or second parent" but Romney refused this change.
"The Family Equality Council, another national rights group, also condemned Romney’s actions. “We don’t advocate for candidates. We advocate for families, and we’ve long known of the difficulties that parents who are LGBT had under Governor Romney’s leadership,” said the group’s executive director."
Romney is not favored by the LGBT community because of his oppoition toward the organization. This can and will potentially effect him because he is losing votes from a popular community because of his strong views.
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