Spreading Santorum: Slick Rick says an imprisoned father is better for a child than same-sex parents

[marmar]

from the LA Times:



Reporting from Manchester, N.H.—

For the second time in as many days, Rick Santorum waded into the issue of gay marriage, suggesting it was so important for children to have both a father and mother that an imprisoned father was preferable to a same-sex parent.

Citing the work of one anti-poverty expert, Santorum said, "He found that even fathers in jail who had abandoned their kids were still better than no father at all to have in their children's lives."

Allowing gays to marry and raise children, Santorum said, amounts to "robbing children of something they need, they deserve, they have a right to. You may rationalize that that isn't true, but in your own life and in your own heart, you know it's true."

At a private boarding school Friday, the Republican presidential candidate's voice grew emotional as he argued that only a man and woman should be able to marry. "Marriage is not a right," Santorum said. "It's a privilege that is given to society by society for a reason.... We want to encourage what is the best for children." .................(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-na-campaign-20120107,0,4461003.story

[racaulk]

1. Geez...

The race to the bottom continues.

[roguevalley]

10. someone needs to beat the crap out of him. i volunteer. l am

Older but i could do it.

[treestar]

2. OK, so it sounds like two gay men parents would be even better

Right Ricky?

[Tuesday Afternoon]

3. Slick Rick is a dumbass.

[Gormy Cuss]

4. Which anti-poverty expert was he claiming to cite?

I'd love to know.

[mzteris]

5. I bet you anything

he has "secret longings".

Methinks he doth protest WAY too much!

[Mz Pip]

6. Keep talking Ricky

The more you talk the more people get to learn about your bigotted homophobic beliefs.

[City Lights]

7. He's obsessed with the sex lives of other people.

And to a lesser extent, the skin color of other people. Nothing he says and nothing he wants to implement should he become president ( ) will do anything to help America as a nation. He is a freak and gives me the creeps.

[fascisthunter]

8. He Just SOunds Like a Hateful Person trying to make Jabs at people he doesn't like

he is a very sick human being... very disturbed human being who has no clue what he's talking about.

[newspeak]

11. I had a very "sick" abusive step father

I would have loved to have had a loving gay couple adopt me. What matters is if the child is loved, nurtured by the parents. Who is he to determine what defines a family unit?

[Bluenorthwest]

9. In the past, he's gotten donations from Prison Industries, so far this cycle, none.

Old Rick is out to slander gay people, yet he can always work in some pro-prison rhetoric in case it calls a few dollars out of the woodwork. Dads in prison-it's good for kids!
Fairly amazing how corrupt and ignorant he is.

[ehrnst]

12. Better a gay dad in prison than Santorum as a dad. (nt)

[DevonRex]

13. WTF is it with the GOP and homophobia?

They seem even worse now than ever before. Disgusting.