Projo Reports: The governor’s office signed a $15,000 contract with Indiana lawyer James Bopp Jr. to file a friend-of-the-court brief last week with the state Supreme Court, which had invited public comments while deciding whether to grant a divorce to a lesbian couple married in Massachusetts.
The case has drawn national attention as it is believed to be the first time any of the same-sex couples married in the Bay State have sought a divorce in another state.
Carcieri is doing everything in his power to prevent gay marriage in RI. He's joined his candidate for president, Mitt Romney, in joining the extreme rightwing in an attempt to put their social views at work in Rhode Island. As a citizen, he certainly has the right to do that, but he just spent 15K of TAX PAYER money to promote his personal, not government's, views.
But also in this particular case, the wacko rightwing is traveling around the country fighting at every opportunity the rights of gay americans and women who want to control their own bodies. They saw that RI was going decide on a gay marriage issue and looked for a dup in RI who could help them "fight the fags. " As the Projo Reported, they found their dup in Carcieri.
Now he's in bed with James Bopp, Jr. James Bopp is the right-to-life, anti-women, anti-gay official advisor for Mitt Romney. He's also a good friend and member of the EVANGELICALS for ROMNEY.
Bopp will do anything to promote the extremist right wing....He was at the very center of getting congress involved in the Teri Schiavo case...that circus....disgusting... But even the rightwing is upset at Bopp because he has no ethics or principles and sold out to Mitt Romney so that Romney could say he has pro-life, anti-gay credentials.
Carcieri, his candidate for president, Mitt Romney, and James Bopp. Now there is a trio and all bringing their hateful rhetoric about women and choice, gay people, poor people to the Ocean State. Bopp and his kind have a history, also, of anti-Catholic rhetoric. Many on the Christian right consider Catholicism a "cult"...Carcieri does not represent RI values of inclusion and his hiring of James Bopp to push an anti-fairness, fundamentalist, anti-gay personal agenda is evidence of that.
He clearly committed an ethics violation by using his own money to pay for the hired-gun, James Bopp of Indiana.