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(Boston, Massachusetts) Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, fighting for an amendment to the state constitution to ban same-sex marriage has become the biggest contributor to a similar campaign in South Carolina a Boston newspaper reports.
The Boston Globe says that Romney's political action committee has given SCformarriage.org $5,000.
The paper also reports that Romney, who has presidential aspirations in 2008, intends later this month to send out a fundraising letter on behalf of the group to about 150,000 South Carolinians.
In addition he is expected to headline an event for it after Labor Day.
The extent of his involvement with the South Carolina group is seen as the beginning of an attempt to build a national coalition of conservative groups - something he will need if he goes ahead with his quest for the GOP presidential nomination.
South Carolina holds one of the most important Republican presidential primaries, and Romney's PAC has just hired a director to build support in the state.
But Romney's support has raised the ire of liberals in both South Carolina and at home.
Asha Leong, the campaign manager for the Fairness for All Families Campaign which is fighting the proposed amendment says that Romney should butt out of South Carolina state affairs.
"The thing is that South Carolinians want to hear from other Southerners and other people from South Carolina about what this is going to mean in our daily lives," said told the Globe.
With or without Romney's help the amendment is expected to pass by a wide margin in November.
The revelation of his involvement in the campaign comes just days after he held a State House new conference with conservative Christian leaders, including Boston's Cardinal Sean O'Malley, to put pressure on Massachusetts lawmakers to vote on a homegrown amendment banning gay marriage. (story)
A proposed amendment proposed by lawmakers last year failed to get enough votes to have the issue placed before voters. A conservative citizens group then collected enough signatures to have a second proposed amendment go to the legislature.
A citizen based referendum needs the support of only 50 lawmakers - 25 percent of the House and Senate - in two constitutional conventions for it to be put to voters.
The earliest it could be put on the ballot would be 2008.
©365Gay.com 2006
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