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Romney cites scripture on gay marriage:

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney is defending his opposition to gay marriage by citing the Scriptures.

The former Massachusetts governor, who in his 1994 Senate bid pledged to be a more effective champion for gay causes than his Democratic rival, discussed gay marriage in an interview set to air Sunday on CBS' "60 Minutes."

"This isn't just some temporary convenience here on Earth, but we're people that are designed to live together as male and female and we're gonna have families," he tells interviewer Mike Wallace, according to an excerpt CBS released Friday. "And that, there's a great line in the Bible that children are an inheritance of the Lord and happy is he who has or hath his quiver full of them."

If we're gonna have families, and if "children are an inheritance of the Lord" and "happy is he who has ... his quiver full of them", then shouldn't you be fully supportive of gays marrying, forming families, and raising children?

Or do gays not deserve quiver-derived happiness?

Furthermore, Mr. Romney, maybe we should revisit some of your previous statements:

You know, I'm never going to get into a discussion about my personal beliefs and about particular doctrines of my church, and so forth. I'm very proud of my church. It was the church of my father, and his father, and his father before him.

But what I can say is this. And I go back to a speech that Abraham Lincoln made when he was 28 years old, the Lyceum Address, when he said that America has a political religion and that people who are elected to office subscribe to this political religion, which is to place the oath of office, an oath to abide by a nation of laws and the Constitution, above all others.

Remember, Mr. Romney, you swear on the Bible to uphold the Constitution--not the other way around. And that constitution guarantees equal treatment before the law.