Please read this through before you judge, but - I am actually pleased to hear rhetoric like that employed by pro-horrible-legislation advocates. It just highlights how ridiculous and perverted those ideas are. How can anyone actually take that guy seriously without realizing what a whack job he and his ideas are? No wonder the support for that amendment is at an all time low!
Recently in the province where I live, we had an election where absolutely everyone who was a pundit was convinced this new ultra conservative party was going to take at least a minority government, if not a very strong majority... We're talking 70 out of 88 seats. There are three things that kept them down to 20 seats in the ultra conservative farming communities their support base was from:
1) the candidate who claimed he was at an advantage over another candidate in his riding because he was white (and the lack of response from the party leader)
2) the candidate who said all gays should burn in hellfire (and the lack of response from the party leader)
3) strategic voting in the cities where the liberal/socialist types held their noses and voted for the old conservative party because at least they weren't quite as bat shit crazy.
I don't know how effective that third part would have been if the idiots in the first and second part had kept their mouths shut. Likewise, zealots like this pastor fellow do more to help the side of rationalism than to harm it.