Not Fair, Governor
IN ATTEMPTING to make points with national conservative audiences, [Massachusetts] 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.
Romney has taken a page from President Bush's illogic by insisting that every child "has a right to a mother and a father," implying that two women or two men could not possibly do the job. But many studies have shown that, while children fare better having two parents, the sexual orientation of those parents is inconsequential. […]
[From Not fair, governor, an editorial in the Boston Globe.]