Governor " Passive/aggressive" Romney

The Boston Globe reports today that Gov. Romney is telling hospitals to cross out the word father on birth certificates for the children of same-sex couples and instead write the phrase ''second parent". City and town clerks warn that the altered documents could be legally questionable, however, the Governor doesn't care.

In February, Romney, on a political trip to South Carolina, told a Republican group that he was dismayed by the clerks' effort to have birth certificates revised for the children of gay couples. ''Some [same-sex couples] are actually having children born to them," Romney said.

''It's not right on paper; it's not right in fact," he said. ''Every child has a right to a mother and a father."

So Governor "I only care about certain children" Romney isn't about to change the certificates. Still the clerks are undaunted:

''The fact remains that this is a document that could be questioned in years to come," said Linda E. Hutchenrider, Barnstable town clerk and past president of the Massachusetts Town Clerks' Association. She sent a letter in October asking Romney to formally revise the birth certificates for the children of same-sex couples.

...''I don't care whether there is one child in the Commonwealth or 500 children in the Commonwealth affected by this," said Hutchenrider. ''They should not have a birth certificate that has crosses on it. They should be allowed to have a birth certificates that really looks valid."

Bureaucrats who work for the government always get a lot of crap for being paper-pushers or do-nothing government employees. Then you get these unelected Town Clerks who are just trying to do their job and really care about the people they serve. They take their jobs serious and are dedicated civil servants.

On the other hand, you have a man, very well educated, ran a number of successful companies which have made him a millionaire. Took over and headed the Olympics and was elected to be the Governor of one of the original 13 colonies. Yet for all his wisdom, he is having a hissy fit over BIRTH CERTIFICATE FORMS!

Maybe he's hoping it will all go away? Or maybe he's hoping he will go away...we won't.