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Rick Santorum: If Elected I Will Nullify All Existing Same-Sex Marriages Nationwide
Rick Santorum says that if elected he would ensure that all existing same-sex marriages will be nullified. That's not too surprising actually, but that's a step further than we've heard from the other GOP tools.
There are 18,000 married gay and lesbian couples in California and at least 131,000 nationwide according to the 2010 census, conducted before New York state legalized same-sex marriage in July. Rick Santorum says he'll try to unmarry all of them if he's elected president. Once the U.S. Constitution is amended to prohibit same-gender marriages, "their marriage would be invalid," the former Pennsylvania senator said Dec. 30 in an NBC News interview. "We can't have 50 different marriage laws in this country," he said. "You have to have one marriage law."
Romney also wants a federal constitutional ban on same-sex marriage, but has said he would allow existing marriages to remain legal. The Family Research Council yesterday voiced their support for Santorum's plan to rip apart gay families.
http://joemygod.blogspot.com/2012/03/rick-santorum-if-elected-i-will-nullify.html
pnwest
(3,266 posts)marriage laws in this country?? Isn't this the guy who wants to turn everything over to the states?
WillParkinson
(16,862 posts)Everything else is cool.
Conservatives are all for "states rights" and "limited government" except for this one issue. Which to me shows their true hatred and bigotry.
bluestateguy
(44,173 posts)nt
muntrv
(14,505 posts)Ruby the Liberal
(26,219 posts)he would have just lost the 10th amendment nuts.
Reality tells me that they will all still be driving their pick-ups with the "Respect the 10th" (or whatever) bumpersticker while voting for Christy McSweaterVest in another month.
sabbat hunter
(6,835 posts)that he would have a constitutional amendment passed, which would eliminate the 10th amendment issues.
he maybe crazy but apparently he isn't stupid.
Ruby the Liberal
(26,219 posts)htuttle
(23,738 posts)customerserviceguy
(25,183 posts)at least as far as eligibility is concerned. Now, there's DOMA, which theoretically gives one state the right to not recognize a same-gender marriage legally contracted in another state, but it hasn't been through the SCOTUS for a constitutional check.
There is no Federal power that can tell a state that a marriage conducted under the laws of that state is invalid within that state. He's just talking out of his ass here.
sabbat hunter
(6,835 posts)which then would give the federal government power over marriages....
He is apparently just crazy, not stupid.
But his thought pattern saddens me greatly.
customerserviceguy
(25,183 posts)Is thirteen states willing to say "No". By the time Sicky Ricky or any other Rethug could get the necessary two-thirds majorities in both houses of Congress to pass such an amendment, we will have at least thirteen states with marriage equality. And the President is Constitutionally nothing but a cheerleader for or against any amendments.
He's talking out of his ass, I say. Let the voters reject him, like they did in Washington state this last weekend. Now, there's a state where the fundies should have been up in arms about equal marriage, having just seen it pass their legislature and be signed by the governor. Santorum worked it the day the bill was signed into law, and still, WA state GOP'ers said, "OK, we don't mind your stance on this issue, but even WE don't want to take away other people's (and our own) contraception.
I doubt that enough signatures will be gathered to force an initiative in WA, and even if it does happen, I expect the people of that state to turn it down at the ballot box. His thought pattern is just that, HIS thoughts. Fortunately, few of of our fellow Americans feel like he does about sexuality.
Loudmxr
(1,405 posts)And those silly laws of 1964 and 1965 that gave "equal rights" to those inferior brown people.
Never ever be in the same room with me.
provis99
(13,062 posts)they just don't get the idea of a Constitution, which was to guarantee, protect, and expand people's rights.
Blue Owl
(50,494 posts)TygrBright
(20,763 posts)Prophet 451
(9,796 posts)Initech
(100,102 posts)Fearless
(18,421 posts)You really need to pick one side or the other. Either they are legitimate and can be taken away (in theory) or aren't legitimate and therefore couldn't ever be taken away because they don't exist.
So dumbass, which one is it?