In a case of blatant pandering to violent homophobes. The source of this nations economic angst is not deregulation of financial markets but the social acceptance of human rights.
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich has suggested gay marriage is to blame for America's economic woes.
He decided his audience would accept his premise so he threw them the reddest of meat.
In a radio interview on Catholic Radio San Diego to pitch his book A Nation Like No Other, his short film Nine Days that Changed the World, and his wife Callista Gingrich's upcoming children's book Sweet Land of Liberty, host Charles Limandri asked Gingrich why he believed “radical secularists” are attacking the family.
In ignoring millennia of human interaction and family structure prior to the baby boomers Gingrich places the blame for our economic problems on an already violently oppressed minority:
“The concept of family being between man and woman and the concept of all these core values that grow out of 3,000 years of Judeo-Christian tradition,” Gingrich answered. “This is a direct threat to the entire secular world