Santorum: ‘I Love My Brother. Should We Call This Relationship Marriage Too?’

[LynneSin]

OMG this asshole just doesn't GET it does he?

http://thinkprogress.org/2008/05/22/santorum-gay/

Santorum Mocks Gay Marriage: ‘I Love My Brother. Should We Call This Relationship Marriage Too?’»
Today’s Philadelphia Inquirer column by former Republican senator Rick Santorum is a shrill rant against the California Supreme Court for its recent ruling allowing gay marriage. Santorum worries about the “future of marriage as the union of husband and wife” and points out that he was “sounding the alarm about marriage” back in 2003.

To underscore his assertion that gay marriage = the collapse of civilization, he points to Norway:

Look at Norway. It began allowing same-sex marriage in the 1990s. In just the last decade, its heterosexual-marriage rates have nose-dived and its out-of-wedlock birthrate skyrocketed to 80 percent for firstborn children. Too bad for those kids who probably won’t have a dad around, but we can’t let the welfare of children stand in the way of social affirmation, can we?

But what about love? That’s the question a student asked this winter when I spoke at Georgetown University.

Is anyone saying same-sex couples can’t love each other? I love my children. I love my friends, my brother. Heck, I even love my mother-in-law. Should we call these relationships marriage, too? Marriage is and always has been more than the acknowledgment of the love between two people.

[Mabus]

1. No clue about the difference between "loving" someone and being "in love"

That just says scads about him. And none of it is good.

What an idiot. US heterosexual marriage rates have also nose-dived in the US since 1990 and until recently we didn't have gay marriage.

God, he is such a tool. Why won't he crawl under a rock somewhere?

[HockeyMom]

2. He has no right to talk about fathers

What kind of a father would bring a dead fetus home for his children to see and hold? In my mind that is child abuse.

Santorum is one sick individual.

[bunkerbuster1]

3. "Too bad for those kids who probably won’t have a dad around..."

Prove it, asshole. Prove that those horrible, sinful Norwegians are a bunch of deadbeat, no-show dads.

[murielm99]

4. We don't allow gay marriage,

and our heterosexual marriage rates have dropped. I heard some stats on that on the radio news last night. I think they said that the marriage rates have dropped by about a third over the last decade. People are deciding to live together without getting married. Sorry, no link.

But gay marriage did not cause the drop here. How is he connecting the two things? It makes no sense.

[LynneSin]

5. How do you connect loving your brother or mother-in-law with marrying your life partner

the man's brain is beyond warped

[JerseygirlCT]

6. You just KNOW

were the situations reversed, that a statement like that would result in someone like Limbaugh screaming about the Democrat advocating incest, right?

Just an idea... I can see the headline now:

Rick (man on dog) Santorum now advocating incest with brother!

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

7. What... the... fuck?

Look at Norway. It began allowing same-sex marriage in the 1990s. In just the last decade, its heterosexual-marriage rates have nose-dived and its out-of-wedlock birthrate skyrocketed to 80 percent for firstborn children. Too bad for those kids who probably won’t have a dad around, but we can’t let the welfare of children stand in the way of social affirmation, can we?

So homosexuals are having children out of wedlock? Does he even understand how sex works?

[libodem]

8. Well, for the worthless job he does in congress

We can say, "He's fuckin' the dog". Is that a marriage? That cheap bastard will be selling the puppies.