james chen

James Chen has been an activist on LGBT and other human rights issues for more than two decades in the Boston and Cambridge, Mass. area.

Mitt Romney was against gay adoption before he was for it. Recent reporting from his home state of Massachusetts shows that during his term as governor, Romney opposed many popular gay rights causes. Romney opposed anti-bullying efforts, adoption rights for gays and efforts to prevent hate crimes, Murray Waas just reported. When lobbied by gay rights groups he was unwilling to engage. When urged to reconsider by his own state officials, Romney refused to listen to reason, the Boston Globe's Murray Waas story reported.

As I reported last week, the Log Cabin Republicans endorsed Romney, claiming he is a relative moderate on gay rights. When I pressed their executive director on how Romney’s policies differ from those of homophobes who LCR would have declined to endorse, such as Rick Santorum, one of the examples he cited was Romney’s support for gay adoption.