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Former PA Senator Rick Santorum has been hanging much of his presidential campaign on bashing LGBT folks. He’s made a lot of hateful comments over the years, but we rounded up the seven dumbest things he’s said about gay people. And this has us wondering why the GOP contender is so darn obsessed with gay people anyway? Does thou protest a little too much?
1. “Even fathers in jail who had abandoned their kids were still better than no father at all to have in their children’s lives.”
2. He argues that gay soldiers would disrupt the military because “they’re in close quarters, they live with people, they obviously shower with people.”
3. “Now the courts have created a super-right that’s above a right that’s actually in the Constitution, and that’s of sexual liberty. And I think that’s a wrong, that’s a destructive element.”
4. “Every society in the history of man has upheld the institution of marriage as a bond between a man and a woman….In every society, the definition of marriage has not ever, to my knowledge, included homosexuality. That’s not to pick on homosexuality. It’s not, you know, man on child, man on dog, or whatever the case may be. It is one thing. And when you destroy that you have a dramatic impact on the quality.”
5. He blames liberalism on the Catholic Church sex abuse scandal, saying that it’s “no surprise that the center of the Catholic Church abuse took place in very liberal, or perhaps the nation’s most liberal area – Boston.”
6. “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?”
5. “A lesbian woman came up to me and said, ‘why are you denying me my right?’ I said, ‘well, because it’s not a right.’ It’s a privilege that society recognizes because society sees intrinsic value to that relationship over any other relationship.”
6. “ I have no problem with homosexuality. I have a problem with homosexual acts. As I would with acts of other, what I would consider to be, acts outside of traditional heterosexual relationships.”
7. “What we’re talking about, basically, is priests who were having sexual relations with post-pubescent men. We’re not talking about priests with three-year-olds, or five-year-olds. We’re talking about a basic homosexual relationship.”
Well, I guess SOMEONE had to bring the spirit of Jim-Crow-esque supremacists into the 21st century.
I think he had a failed same sex relationship @ one point in his life & is doing his darndest to justify his new found “heterosexual” life!!!
A couple years ago a news article said that a couple gay men came to see Santorum in his office
When he found out they were gay, he bounded away nearly breaking his neck in the process.
What in the world does this guy have to fear about a simple meeting on govt property in his office?
His past comes back as a flashback?
His minds simply so poluted with hate that normal discourse is impossible.?
I leave you to judge, but something is terribly terribly wrong.
I love the fact that since he has a religiously-informed view on homosexuality that makes him obsessed. Also, love the insinuation that anyone who shares his view, must be a closet homosexual just like it is suggested that all homophobic bullies are latent homosexuals. The key there is if that is true, then they are still homosexuals who are tormenting others which means gays who are homophobes are pathological and need to hurt others due to mental dysfunction.
If there are so many homophobes who are closeted and simply need to come out and now people are free to come out, where are all of those former homophobes who simply needed to come out? Where are their stories? It doesn’t add up. Its blather from the gay community. Its a red herring.
Santorum isn’t obsessed. Gays are obsessed with Santorum.
I have nothing but admiration for CIC private Manning who apparently is gay and a rather small and defenseless young man who while in the Counterintelligence Corps was able to obtain Classified Intelligence information about our Federal Government and leaked this information to th believee press so that now we have the proof of what we all have suspected for years —our politicians in the Federal Government are a bunch of narrowminded ignoramissis who lack any understanding of poverty or healthcare or international relations but due to their overwheling arrogance and feelings of superiority and inherited or stolen wealth think they know everything when in fact they are all merely missing a link and intellectually dissabled!