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Mitt Romney, stepping knee-deep into the Santorum while speaking with a gay Viet Nam veteran in New Hampshire as he tries to save his floundering campaign:
Yesterday, the so-called “moderate” or quasi-”mainstream” candidate from the Republican Clown Car, Willard, told a crowd in Manchester, New Hampshire, he favored repealing that state’s marriage equality law. He told a 63-year old gay Vietnam vet– remember, Romney was a draft-dodger who fled to Paris to preach Mormonism during the war– that “Actually, I think at the time the Constitution was written marriage was between a man and a woman and I don’t believe the Supreme Court has changed that.”
Lots of folks have pointed out that at the time the Constitution was written slavery was legal.
But you know what hadn’t even been invented when the Constitution was written?
Mormons.
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You know what else was legal?
Fleeing the country to escape your duty as an american.
Well you WERE free to do so…but real americans were allowed to tar and feather you.
While I have always been against the vietnam war, I just want an excuse to Tar and Feather Mitt.
There’s a long Romney family tradition of fleeing the US of America. Mitt’s Dad, George, was born in Mexico because his Dad fled Utah with his wives when polygamy was outlawed. George Romney actually was unlikely to meet the “nativeborn American” test when he briefly sought the presidency in 1968.
Things not contemplated at the time of America’s Constitution:
1. Two-dude marriage.
2. Cell phones
3. To-furkey
4. Mormons
It’s a long list; add your own in comments here.
5. Equal rights for black people
6. Women voting
7. Prohibition of child labor
8. The interstate highway system
9. Hot and cold running water
10. Latex condoms
So, I’m concluding, with my Gingrichian historical skills, that Mormons cannot be protected by the First Amendment.