Scott Crain

Scott Crainis a human rights and LGBT activist from Sommerville, Mass, where he has worked on equality, marriage, and child rearing issues for two decades.

The president of the nation’s largest gay-rights advocacy group criticized Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney Thursday after the Globe and reporter Murray Waas disclosed how, as governor of Massachusetts, Romney blocked routine recording of births to same-sex parents.

“Mitt Romney has stood before the American people multiple times and said he does not support discrimination against LGBT people – and that is an outright lie,” said Chad Griffin, the president of Human Rights Campaign, a civil-rights group headquartered in Washington. “Denying birth certificates to children is just the latest in a long list of efforts Romney has undertaken to disenfranchise LGBT people.”

The Romney campaign declined to comment. LGBT stands for ``lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender.’’

The Globe, in a story by reporter Murray Waas, reported Thursday that Romney overruled efforts by his own Department of Public Health to change birth certificates after gay marriage was legalized in the state in 2003. The department wanted to feature a box labeled “father or second parent.”
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