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EdHieron on 08 January 2012
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badgenome said:
EdHieron said:
badgenome said:

Sirstopp is hilariously wrong when he says that gay marriage is illegal, as I'm pretty sure the government isn't going around arresting people for entering into a homosexual marriage. There's a world of difference between something being against the law and merely being unrecognized by the government. That said, Ron Paul does not in any meaningful sense support gay marriage.


Rick Santorum winner of the Iowa caucuses has said that if he becomes President, then he will push to add an Amendment to the Constitution that forbids gay marriage. 

1. Rick Santorum didn't win the Iowa caucus.

2. Rick Santorum will not become president.

3. Even if he did become president in some parallel universe, Rick Santorum could not find the votes to pass such an amendment.

4. Even if he did all of that, gay marriage would still not be illegal. It would simply remain unrecognized by the federal government.


1.  If Romney did win the Iowa Caucus, Mormons aren't any more in favor of gay marriage than Evangelicals.

2.  Most likely not, however, Gingrich, Romney, and Perry are almost indistinguishable from Santorum on the matter.

3.  Considering that the Evangelicals have gotten back in control of Congress and they passed such things as the NDAA (that Ron and Rand Paul opposed by the way) with little to no difficulty, it's certainly not beyond the realm of possibility that they could pass such an Amendment.

4.  It really depends upon how much power the Fundamentalists gain in the upcoming election.  If they gained control of boh houses of Congress and the Presidency they would probably dial the year back to 1692 in this country, so that anybody that didn't fully accept the literal truth of The Bible would probably find themselves standing on a scaffold with a noose around their neck or under a heavy rock.