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Related: About this forumSantorum Claims ‘I Haven’t Been Talking A Lot About’ Gay Issues
http://thinkprogress.org/lgbt/2012/01/05/398196/santorum-claims-i-havent-been-talking-a-lot-about-gay-issues/?mobile=ncstart around 3:00
Santorum may have failed to mention LGBT issues in every one of his 350 Iowa town halls, but as ThinkProgress has chronicled, he did spend ample time arguing that gay couples destabilize society and comparing same-sex relationships to inanimate objects like trees, basketballs, beer, and paper towels and even tried to blame the economic crisis on gay people. As Santorum explained back in August, religious people have a constitutional right to discriminate against gays: We have a right the Constitution of religious liberty but now the courts have created a super-right thats above a right thats actually in the Constitution, and thats of sexual liberty. And I think thats a wrong, thats a destructive element.
Santorum also slipped in a coded reference to marriage in his Iowa acceptance speech Tuesday night, saying, Those are the same people that President Obama talked about who cling to their guns and their Bibles. Thank God they do. They share our values about faith and family. They understand that when the family breaks down, the economy struggles. In de-emphasizing the issue in New Hampshire, Santorum is acknowledging that Granite State voters are less driven by social issues than economic concerns and thats particularly true when it comes to the states own marriage equality law.
mattvermont
(646 posts)own glorious gayness...I mean watch this guy.
w8liftinglady
(23,278 posts)Santorum raises polygamy in defending stand against gay marriage
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-57353422-503544/santorum-raises-polygamy-in-defending-stand-against-gay-marriage/?tag=contentMain;contentBody
CONCORD, N.H. - In a spirited debate with gay rights supporters, GOP presidential candidate Rick Santorum on Thursday defended his opposition to liberalizing marriage laws by raising the specter of polygamy. "What about three men?" he asked.
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Are we saying that everybody should have the right to marry?" Santorum said, issuing a challenge to his audience.
"Yes!" several shouted.
Santorum: "So anyone can marry anyone else?"
"Yes!"
Santorum: "So anybody can marry multiple people?"
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Replied Santorum: "What about three men?" He was being provocative and might not have expected the answer he got.
"Go for it," she said. Once he realized that she was condoning polygamy among same-sex couples, Santorum sarcastically framed the pro-gay marriage argument: Anybody, he said, can marry as many people as they want. The gay rights supporters stood and applauded Santorum, apparently mocking him.
dsc
(52,130 posts)Santorum isn't gay.
Initech
(99,914 posts)Yeah... he hasn't been talking about it or anything.
RetiredTrotskyite
(1,507 posts)That's why practically every other word out of your mouth is "gay".