The Mitt Romney campaign on Sunday
denied that Romney had anything to do with a 2002 gay pride flyer,
The
Huffington Post reported.
“Mitt and Kerry [Healey] wish you a
great Pride weekend!” the pink-colored flyer reads. “All
citizens deserve equal rights, regardless of their sexual
preference.”
The flyers were reportedly distributed
at a Gay Pride event and include the tagline: “Paid for by the
Romney for Governor Committee and the Kerry Murphy Healey Committee.”
“I don't know where those pink flyers
came from,” said Eric Fehrnstrom, Romney's chief spokesman. “I
was the communications director on the 2002 campaign. I don't know
who distributed them. … I never saw them and I was the
communications director.”
“I never saw them and I never
approved them,” he said. “I'm not quite sure where they came
from.”
Fehrnstrom made his remarks immediately
after Sunday's NBC News-Facebook GOP presidential debate in New
Hampshire, where Romney
said he was opposed to discrimination based on sexual orientation and
giving gay and lesbian couples the right to marry.
Fehrnstrom said his boss doesn't even
support civil unions for gay couples.
“[H]e has not been in favor of civil
unions, if by civil unions you mean the equivalency to marriage but
without the name marriage. What he has favored, and he talked about
this, I believe, last night, was a form of domestic partnership or a
contractual relationship with reciprocal benefits.”