Rick Santorum, perhaps the easiest Republican to loathe since Satan, has said he would invalidate all gay marriages to this point, given the chance:
In an interview with NBC’s Chuck Todd at his campaign headquarters in Iowa, Santorum said there needs to be one marriage law for all 50 states. When asked if he would make same-sex couples get divorced, he responded, “Well their marriage would be invalid. If the constitution says ‘marriage is this,’ then people whose marriages are not consistent with the constitution … (shrug.) I’d love to think that there was another way of doing it.”
Yep, there is another way. Allow gays to get married since, aside from marriage not even being about procreation anyway, it is illegal to give one group a set of rights whilst simultaneously discriminating against another group for no good reason. That is, after all, the very definition of bigotry.
But hang on, I haven’t even gotten to the best part of Frothy’s hatred:
Santorum said he has hesitations about the Supreme Court taking the decision about marriage away from the people. “32 times marriage has been voted on, in 32 different states from Maine to California, and 32 times marriage has won,” he said. But later in the interview Santorum acknowledged that “just because public opinion says something, doesn’t mean something’s right if it’s not right.”
For someone who hates homosexuals so much, he sure does like to have it both ways.
I’m really excited for the years to come. I can’t wait to see how religious bigots change their arguments from “It’s the will of the people! Listen to the will of the people!” to “Well, what’s right is right.” Santorum seems to have gotten a head start, but I don’t think there can be any doubt that this is the way conservatives will be stating their case in the future. After all, gay marriage will become the law of the land. It may happen in the next few years, or it may happen in 30 years. Either way, it is going to happen (and we will look at today’s laws as we now see anti-miscegenation laws). That means the religious will necessarily need to change their arguments to fit the changing landscape – a landscape on which they will enjoy ever-shrinking relevancy.
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For the Sake of Science 
This comes to mind:
http://graphjam.memebase.com/2009/07/18/song-chart-memes-find-closet/
The people will invalidate Santorum and then the people will invalidate the Republican nominee. The party of clowns will sink down to the bottom, its natural level.
His latest statements reiterate the reason why his last name absolutely required a new definition.
In addition, ANYONE who spends so much time concerning himself about 3-6% of the population is himself attempting to exorcise his own demons.
And finally, he’s a meglomaniac. HE has no such power. Only Congress and 3/4 of the states have that power, and NO one in their right mind will even attempt to amend the US Constitution regarding marriage. Prohibition proved that doing so only sullies the purpose of that document.