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Anyone else out there recall Arkansas' inept pro-segregation Governor Orville Faubus?
He called out the National Guard in 1957 in a bid to stop the court ordered integration of Little Rock High school.
Romney is starting to remind me a little bit of old Orville.
More importantly will he do likewise come May 17th?
Yup despite a firm rebuff from the Attorney General and a clear mandate from the Supreme Judicial Court, today's Globe reports that Romney is still noodling around with "other means" to thwart the issuance of marriage licenses come May 17th 2004.
One Faubusian move requires that the State Legislature OUTLAW marriage entirely and simply compel the localities issue civil union licenses until November 2004.
Again, this is the sort of nasty passive aggressive Dairy Queen regional manager type thinking that will in sort order be the downfall of the Commonwealth.
It also irrationally presupposes that the lege will actually revisit the marriage issue any time soon, one doubts they will do this short of a sudden outbreak of galloping dementia.
Alas these are the tattered bankrupt notions the Kolobian Viceroy is conjuring with.
Of course this being Romney he could well invite the usual out of state "volunteers" and interested wowsers to invade and occupy all 351 town and city clerks offices in a mass act of civil disobedience.
The idea being to get all the brides and grooms in the Commonwealth mad at the gays for "causing" all this trouble.
I promise you, dangerous and inane stunts like this are under discussion in the Romney politburo even as I write this.
The court has spoken, the state legislature has spoken, but GOD FORBID Governor Romney should act as anything but an enforcer of the law...no no no....his sworn constitutional duty comes in a distant sad second when there is serious toadying to do before an ugly national constituency.
Rest assured that when the Governor settles on a "transitional" anti-gay marriage policy it will be a churlish and unpleasant thing indeed.

Sick
Demented
Typical....