I encourage the GOP to push for a constitutional amendment against gay marriage......

[Logical]

Because they will give us the 2016 election on a golden platter.

The more these asshats look crazy the better!

[RKP5637]

1. They can't get it that many in the GOP are LGBT and many very religious people

are LGBT. They just consistently demonstrate how F'en stupid they are.

[Logical]

2. So true! nt

[Agnosticsherbet]

3. They will treat marriage equality with the same tactic they use against abortion

It will become a perenial campaign issue, and we will see lawsuits every year as sates try in one way or another to overthrow the ruling.

[Jim Lane]

5. There's a key difference.

According to the polling data that I remember, acceptance of marriage equality has been on a steady upward trend over the last several years. By contrast, support for reproductive rights has shown small peaks and valleys over the years, but by and large it's still about where it was in 1973, when Roe v. Wade was decided.

The result is that the Republicans can continue to use abortion as an effective campaign issue. If they try the same thing with same-sex marriage, though, I think it will backfire on them.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

6. Precisely

The pro-choice/anti-choice debate is much, much, much...more polarizing.

[Agnosticsherbet]

7. Republicans of the Religous Right don't care about polling data.

For them it is a moral issue.

[Gothmog]

4. Yes, the GOP needs to put all of its effort into such an amendment