Romney lied during GOP debate about French marriage law

Gee, what a surprise. Mr. Religious Right lied during the debate in an effort to seem all pro-marriage-y. You'll recall that Romney criticized this new wildly popular supposed French marriage contract where you only get married for 7 years. Well, I did a little searching and found out (via another blog) what Romney was talking about: France's new civil unions law, the PACS as they call it. A law that was passed in an effort to give gay people kind-of-sort-of some of the rights of marriage without actually giving them marriage (and at the same time, it gave straight couples the same right since you couldn't just give the right to gays and not straights).

Romney is against gay marriage. He's against gay civil unions. He's against gay everything. Putting aside the fact that up until two years ago Romney was pretty much for gay everything, it's rather incredible of Romney to complain that the French aren't giving gays full marriage when he won't give gays full marriage. And his central criticism about the law only being for a seven year contract, well nobody can find that anywhere - it's just not true. And yes, the law does provide a watered down version of marriage for straight couples, but that's only because people like Romney opposed giving gays full marriage - he can't have it both ways.

So, Mitt Romney is now upset that France isn't letting gays have real marriage? Or does Romney, who doesn't come off as the brightest bulb in the bunch, even have any idea what he's talking about? The man was handed some France-bashing talking points and he ran with it like the good slick-haired, well-monied, flip-flopping dimwit he really is.