God over Economy?......No

Ever since the recession of 2008, the economy has been the most important issue for politicians seeking office. It has definitely been the key issue in each of the last two presidential elections. That is, however, except for one high profile Republican canidate. Time Magazine ran a story this week discussing Rick Santorum's unique stance on what is most important. The GOP hopeful believes that America's problems can be more easily solved by addressing the so called "family problem." He believes that increased marriages among parents will lead to other problems fixing themselves. While this isn't necesarily wrong, there's one major problem with it: You Can't legislate marriage. As President what is he expecting to do? Force the lower class to get married and stay together while having a good home life and thus producing a productive member of society? This can't possibly be accomplished and is ridiculous to even think of. Seperation of Church and State is clearly established and any educated voter should see that Santorum should more focused on economic issues and less focused on eradicating gay marriage and legislating family life. Even though he's of the more conservative belief that the government should interfere less with the economy; he should be campaigning on that. He should be focused on changing the economic policies of the current administration if he is against them. He should be focused on anything but what he's campaigned on. It's a good thing he'll never be president.