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Dept of Public Health -- the lawsuit that brought same-sex marriage to Massachusetts. In this video, Goodridge shares her family's encounters with Gov. Mitt Romney, including a meeting with Romney, which Goodridge describes as \"the most frustrating experience in the entire marriage case.\"\n\nTRANSCRIPT\nHe said he was a friend of the gay community. He tried to block our marriages. There's no doubt in my mind that if Mitt was elected president, it's going to get a lot worse.\n\nMy name's Julie Goodrich, and I was half of the lead plaintiffs in the Massachusetts marriage case that brought same sex marriage to the commonwealth.\n\nMitt Romney did everything he could possibly do to block our ability to get married. But I was still really hopeful, you know, I, in some ways, I'm sort of the eternal optimist, and I went and I thought \"You know what? If we can change the minds of all of these citizens in Massachusetts, to understand why we need to be married, why our family needs to be protected, you know, we can talk to the Governor.\"\n\nSo we went in to try to talk to him, and you know, it was truthfully the most frustrating experience that I had in the entire marriage case, and during that time, both Hillary and I had some pretty frustrating conversations. But this one took the cake.\n\nWhen we met with Mitt, he didn't know who we were, he didn't have time to meet with us in\nadvance, he wouldn't schedule an appointment with us. He met with us only because he was being forced to by the media.\n\nI looked him in the eye as we were leaving the meeting, and I said in exasperation, \"Governor Romney, tell me, what would you suggest I say to my eight-year-old daughter about why her mommmy and her ma can't get married, because you, the governor of her state, is going to block our marriage.\"\n\nAnd he looked at me and he said, kind of looked sort of over my\nshoulder with this blank stare and said, \"I don't really care what you tell your adopted daughter. Why don't you just tell her what you've been telling her for the last eight years?\"\n\nOur entire story was about the fact that when I gave birth to Annie, there were such severe complications that she was rushed off to neonatal intensive care. Hillary had to go with Annie, and then she couldn't get back into see me in recovery because she wasn't my next of kin. And then when she tried to see me and wasn't allowed she tried to get back in to see Annie, and she couldn't go into see Annie because she wasn't seen as her real mother.\n\nThis story was in every single, it was in the New York Times. It was in People Magazine. It was in every single public media outlet that their there was. It was on the front of Newsweek.\n\nBut the governor of the state of the first gay marriage case in this country didn't feel it was necessary to read about who we were, and why we wanted these rights?\n\nI have never in my life stood before someone who had no capacity for empathy like Mitt Romney.\n\nHe didn't care about my daughter. He didn't care about what we should tell her.\n\nAll he cared about was his political future and blocking our rights to get married. Gay marriage is thorn in Romney's side. His goal is to make it go away. He doesn't believe that we need\nrights, or want rights, or deserve rights.\n\nI have never felt so strongly that this man cannot be the next President of the United States. Because let me tell you, it gets worse. 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US News reports that two Democratic Super PACs have launched “Mitt Gets Worse,” a new website inspired by the “It Gets Better” campaign designed to prove that if Romney is elected, things for all of us will get worse.The site bills itself as “an oral history of Mitt Romney’s efforts to diminish the rights and the freedoms of LGBT Americans, told by the brave people who have fought back against Mitt’s anti-equality agenda.” It references Romney’s reputation as a flip-flopper but promises that “when it comes to LGBT issues, there’s one thing you can always count on: Mitt Gets Worse” and cautions that Romney is “campaigning for president on an extreme and inhumane platform.”Currently, “Mitt Gets Worse” features four first-person accounts from people who have had personal experiences with Romney about LGBT issues. According to The American Bridge 21st Century, the Super PAC that launched the site, we can expect more in the near future.Julie Goodridge, one of the women who led the fight for marriage equality in Massachusetts, recalls in her video a meeting she had with Romney as governor. She asked him how to explain to her 8-year-old daughter why her moms couldn’t marry, and apparently Romney responded: “I don’t really care \u2026 why don’t you just tell her what you’ve been telling her for the last eight years.”Watch for yourself and share these videos so that everyone can see exactly how Romney will treat the LGBT community if he makes it to the White House.Watch the campaign video here:"},{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org\/","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Mitt Gets Worse Campaign Shows Romney’s True Colors [VIDEO]","item":"https:\/\/equallywed.com\/mitt-gets-worse-campaign-shows-romneys-true-colors-video\/#breadcrumbitem"}]}]