List
of Attorneys, Law Professors, Leaders Declaring:
-Romney forced same-sex marriage on Massachusetts
-Romney willfully authorized tax-funded elective abortions
(from the
Open Letter to Rush
Limbaugh at UndergroundJournal.net)
The
following attorneys, law professors and other holders of advanced degrees in
law or constitutional theory are among the many who state here (or have
previously stated in their own words) that Romney's claim that judges somehow
changed Massachusetts' marriage laws and he was "forced" or had legal
authority to bypass the Legislature and violate the marriage statutes with his
orders imposing homosexual "marriage" in Massachusetts, is legally
absurd and false.*
Most
have also stated that -- based on his record -- Mitt Romney is neither
"pro-life," nor a defender of parents' rights, children's rights,
freedom of religion or constitutional boundaries, and is unfit for public
office. (Of these roughly half are from
Attorney, Law
Professors, Legal Experts exposing Romney's same-sex
marriage scandal:
Judge Ned Kirby (ret.), also former Assistant Minority Leader, Massachusetts Senate
Atty. Edgar
Kelley, former Assistant United States Attorney, Massachusetts
District
Professor
Hadley Arkes, professor of jurisprudence, Amherst College
(Massachusetts)
Professor
Herbert Titus, former Dean, Regent U. College of Law, College
of Government, Co-Founder, American Center for Law and Government
Professor
Scott Fitzgibbon, professor of law, Boston College Law School
(Massachusetts)*
Professor
Hugh Hewitt, Chapman University***
Professor Mary Ann Glendon, Harvard Law School, U.S. Ambassador to the Vatican**
Justice Joseph Nolan, Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts (retired)**
Atty. Phyllis
Schlafly, President, Eagle
Forum
Dr. Scott
Lively, attorney, Defend the Family International
(Massachusetts)
Atty. Gary
Kreep, president, United States Justice Foundation
Atty.
Thomas Glessner, President, National Institute of Family and
Life Advocates
Atty. Jan
M. LaRue, former Chief legal counsel of Concerned Women for
America (CWA), currently affiliated with Brent Bozelle's Media Research Center
Dr. Alan Keyes,
(Ph.D, Harvard, constitutional theory), Reagan appointee as Ambassador to
United Nations' Economic and Social Council and an Assistant Secretary of State
Atty. J.
Edward Pawlick, founder, Lawyer's Weekly newspapers
Atty.
'Robert Paine,' author: "The Governor's New Clothes: How Mitt Romney
Brought Same-Sex 'Marriage' To America", veteran attorney (pen
name)
Dr. Ted
Baehr, Chairman, Christian Film and Television Commission (Juris Doctor, New York Univ. School of Law, former editor:
NY Law School Newspaper)
Atty. Larry
Cirignano, former Executive Director, Catholic Vote
(Massachusetts)
Atty. Owen
O'Malley, (Massachusetts)
Atty.
Chester Darling, (Massachusetts) former president, Citizens for
Preservation of Constitutional Rights, won a rare unanimous decision before the
U.S. Supreme Court)
Atty. Mat
Staver, President, Liberty Counsel, Dean, Liberty U. School of
Law
Atty. Matt
Barber, formerly at Concerned Women for America (CWA),
currently with The Liberty Counsel
(Charles E. Rice, Professor Emeritus of Law,
The
following public figures are among the many who state here (or have previously
stated) that Romney's claim that he was somehow "forced" and had
legal authority to bypass the Legislature, violate the marriage laws and give
unconstitutional orders imposing homosexual "marriage" in
Massachusetts, is constitutionally absurd and false -- and that based on his
actions as governor, Mitt Romney is unfit for public office.
Leading Public Figures exposing
Romney's same-sex marriage scandal:
Joseph Farah, Founder, WorldNetDaily, (the leading independent news source in
America)
Paul
Weyrich, Free Congress Foundation ("a founder of the Reagan
Revolution and the modern conservative movement")
Pat
Buchanan, former White House staff, Nixon administration,
author/columnist, former presidential candidate
Dr. William
Greene, President, RightMarch.com
Steve Deace,
talk radio host, WHO Radio - Iowa, author: "Without a Vision the People Perish"
Gregg
Jackson, Talk radio host, KDAR Radio - Los Angeles, author: "Conservative
Comebacks to Liberal Lies"
Dr.
Earle Fox, veteran political and social activist, author,
Oxford-trained philosopher, President, Road to Emmaus School of Judeo-Christian
Apologetics
John
Haskins, editor, The Underground Journal (http://www.undergroundjournal.net/) writer,
activist/strategist (Massachusetts)
Phil Lawler,
editor, Catholic
World News, author (Massachusetts)
Paul Likoudis,
editor, The
Wanderer - a national Catholic newspaper
Phillip
Magnan, President, Biblical Family Advocates
Dr. Randy
Brinson, Chair, Redeem the Vote
Rev.
William
Keller, TV host, founder Liveprayer.com
Ryan Sorba,
Chairman, Young Conservatives of California, author
Randy
Thomasson, Campaign for Children and Families
Stephen
Strang, author, national columnist, CEO, Strang Communications
Don Feder,
author, syndicated conservative columnist, political consultant (Massachusetts)
Sandy Rios,
talk radio host, Pres., Culture Campaign, former Pres., Concerned Women for
America
Deal Hudson,
author, philosopher, formerly editor, Crisis magazine
Karen
Testerman, Executive Director Cornerstone Policy Research
Randy
Thomasson, Campaign for Children and Families (California)
Philip
Zodhiates, President, Response Unlimited.
David E.
Smith, Illinois Family Institute
Joe Glover,
President, Family Policy Network (National)
Robert
Knight, Dir., Culture & Media Institute (Media
Research Center), formerly of Family Research Council, CWA, and a draftsman of
federal Defense of Marriage Act
Dr. Chuck
Baldwin, radio host, columnist, presidential nominee,
Constitution Party, 2008, pastor
David
Jeffers, author: 'Understanding Evangelicals: A Guide to Jesusland,'
columnist
Terry Moffitt,
Family Policy Network of North Carolina
Troy Newman,
President Operation Rescue
Rev.
Stephen Bennett, Stephen Bennett Ministries
Rev. Ted
Pike, National Prayer Network
Ron Shank,
Family Policy Network of Tennessee
Kevin McCoy,
West Virginia Family Foundation
Matt
Chancey, Family Policy Network-Alabama
Kim Lehman,
Republican National Committeewoman, Iowa
De Byerly,
statewide conservative activist, Iowa
Danny Eason,
Family Policy Network of Texas
Stephen
Cable, Center for American Cultural Renewal-Vermont
Marnie
Deaton, Family Policy Network-Virginia
Dr. Paul
Cameron, Family Research Institute
Micah Clark,
American Family Association of Indiana
Linda
Harvey, Mission America
Peter
LaBarbera, President, Americans for Truth
Michael
Heath, Christian Civic League of Maine
Gary Glenn,
American Family Association of Michigan
Michael W.
Calsetta, Former President, Conservative Democratic Alliance
Bunny S.
Galladora, Woman's Christian Temperance Union
Diane
Gramley, American Family Association of Pennsylvania
(Countless
state-level and grassroots leaders have not been listed in the interest of
brevity)
Additional
Massachusetts leaders familiar with Romney's record who reject him as a fraud
on defense of life, marriage, constitutions and other fundamental social and fiscal
conservative issues.
Massachusetts Leaders exposing
Romney's attacks on marriage, children, and the rule of law:
C. J. Doyle, Director, Catholic Action League
John
O'Gorman, Massachusetts Citizens for Life (Board of Directors)
R. T. Neary,
former president, Massachusetts Citizens for Life, now director, ProLife
Massachusetts
John R.
Diggs, Jr., M.D., Conservative activist, national expert on the
medical risks of homosexuality
Bill Cotter,
president, Operation Rescue Boston
Mark
Charalambous, Spokesman, The Fatherhood Coalition
Mike O'Neil,
CPF/The Fatherhood Coalition
John F.
Russo, Marriage & Family - Massachusetts
Rena Havens,
former director of Massachusetts Mothers Against Pedophilia
Rev.
Michael Carl, President, Greenwood Institute (a think tank),
pastor, columnist
Carol
McKinley, co-founder, Faithful Voice, veteran activist
(Many Massachusetts
leaders and pastors have not been listed in the interest of brevity)
(Note: Carla Howell, President, Center for Small Government in
The
following are among the many who have publicly called Romney
"dishonest" for signing in government-subsidized $50 abortions after
he claimed to have acquired "pro-life" convictions
Prominent Leaders exposing
Romney's elective abortion funding after his alleged 'conversion':
Charles E. Rice, Professor Emeritus of Law, University of Notre Dame Law School
Jerry
Zandstra, President, Pro-Life Federation
Judie Brown,
president, American Life League, Virginia
David
Brownlow, executive director, Life Support, Oregon
Deborah
DeBacker, 9th District GOP state committeewoman, Michigan
Mark Forton,
President of Michigan Conservative Union
John
Geisler, President, Michigan Republican Assembly
Tom
Hoefling, chairman, America's Independent Party
Brian
Kindzia, Georgians for Life
Barbara
Kralis, Catholic Activist, Texas
Mary
Starrett, executive director, Oregonians for Life
Judy Zabik,
board member, Genesee County Republicans, Michigan
Brian Rohrbough, president, American Right To Life.
* We
[UndergroundJournal.net] are able to fully document the statements about Romney
and his record made by all those listed above, including in many cases, private
communications put in our hands by their friends and colleagues.
** Nolan and
Glendon have contradicted Romney in private to multiple parties while allowing
him to lie to voters about his purported legal authority and obligation to give
orders establishing homosexual "marriage."
*** Hewitt,
bizarrely enough, published a very forceful and sound legal argument calling on
Romney to treat the Goodridge
opinion as fraudulent and legally void --
which it obviously is according to both the Massachusetts Constitution and the
same court's previous opinions -- but then, like Professor Glendon, Hewitt
quickly found it in his financial and career interest to flip flop and join
supposedly "conservative" atty. Jay Sekulow,
Right
to Life atty. James Bopp, Family
Research Council's Tony Perkins and the Alliance Defense Fund in going with the
political flow and backing Romney's lies about the judges' supposed authority
to overrule the Constitution, Romney's claim that they had issued orders legalizing
homosexual "marriage" and that his solemn constitutional duty
was not to defend the Constitution and oppose them but instead to surrender and
"obey" them.