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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSantorum Insists On Comparing Marriage Equality To Polygamy In Heated Exchange With Students
http://thinkprogress.org/lgbt/2012/01/05/398861/santorum-insists-on-comparing-marriage-equality-to-polygamy-in-heated-exchange-with-college-students/Santorum Insists On Comparing Marriage Equality To Polygamy In Heated Exchange With Students
By Faiz Shakir and Igor Volsky on Jan 5, 2012 at 5:00 pm
Addressing a college student convention in Concord, New Hampshire moments ago, Rick Santorum was put on the defensive by numerous members of the audience who pressed him about his opposition to marriage equality. Santorum tried engaging in a Socratic dialogue on gay marriage, parrying the students responses with nonsensical theoretical tangents.
So if youre not happy unless youre married to five other people, is that OK? Santorum asked one student. Reason says that if you think its okay for two {individuals to marry}, then you have to differentiate for me why its not okay for three, he argued later.
Watch a compilation @ link~
To be clear, Santorums offensive and circuitous responses are all meant to reject the natural desire of two same-sex individuals to join in a union and enjoy the same rights as heterosexual couples.
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Santorum Insists On Comparing Marriage Equality To Polygamy In Heated Exchange With Students (Original Post)
babylonsister
Jan 2012
OP
So if we let 2 heterosexuals marry ... then we have to allow 5 or more people to marry.
JoePhilly
Jan 2012
#1
I just don't know why people try to talk to this idiot. He believes what he believes. We are not
southernyankeebelle
Jan 2012
#2
JoePhilly
(27,787 posts)1. So if we let 2 heterosexuals marry ... then we have to allow 5 or more people to marry.
The dude is an idiot.
But please GOD, let him win South Carolina!!!
southernyankeebelle
(11,304 posts)2. I just don't know why people try to talk to this idiot. He believes what he believes. We are not
going to change his mind.
dimbear
(6,271 posts)3. Anything to do with two of his opponents being Mormons? n/t