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By Dan Savage: “My youngest son is gay," a woman asked Rick and Karen Santorum at a campaign event yesterday. "I debated for the longest time how to handle my support of you, because what he’s been hearing is, ‘Oh, Rick Santorum hates gays.’ I still have that sense of guilt, because his friends react to what they hear. Help me. How do I deal with that?”
Karen Santorum defended her husband:
“I think it’s very sad [what] the gay activists have done out there,” she replied. “They vilify him, and it’s so wrong. Rick does not hate anyone. He loves them. What he has simply said is [gay] marriage shouldn’t happen. But as far as hating—it’s very unfortunate that that has happened. A lot of it is backyard bullying.” The former Senator added in his defense, “I think the problem is that some see that public policy difference as a personal assault.”
Karen? Your husband compared gay people to dog @!$%#ers and child rapists and you didn't call him out on that at the time. So it would seem that vilification was fine with you until someone decided to give your vile husband a taste of his own medicine.
I'm thinking that "public policy difference" line must have been polled by the Santorum campaign. Rick Santorum doesn't hate gay people! He just thinks we should be locked up, banned from the military, unable to marry or adopt—but that's not hate! Oh, no: it's just a "public policy difference."
[Video: Santorums answer question from mother whose son is gay]
Rick Santorum: I Don't Hate Homosexuals! My Comparing Them to Animal and Child Abusers, and Pledging to Constitutionally Ban Same-Sex Marriage, Reinstate DADT, and Criminalize Gay Sex Is All Just a 'Public Policy Difference'
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And in answer to the woman's question: Rick Santorum's hatred of gay people is clear and unambiguous and well-documented. Rick Santorum will do everything in his power to harm gay people—your son included—if he wins the White House. So you can love your gay son or you can support Rick Santorum, lady.
But you can't do both.
- 8 votes
#1 - Tue Jan 17, 2012 4:13 PM ESTWell if Santorum doesn't hate gays, then he has a creepy obsession with the community, at the very least.
- 7 votes
#2 - Tue Jan 17, 2012 5:14 PM ESTHe says it's about the children, I say he's fulla BS. The man is just waaaaay too concerned about sex and about what goes on in other people's bedrooms. From what I've read of his beliefs, "sex is only for making babies", Ricky and his wife need to get it on more often. Maybe then he'll stop thinking so much about the sex life of other people.
- 7 votes
His 'Public Policy Difference' is @!$%#ing with my Constitutionally guaranteed civil rights.
- 4 votes
I think Santorum and the religious right wing are doing more harm than good with all there Social Agenda that divides this Country.
- 4 votes
#3 - Tue Jan 17, 2012 5:56 PM ESTAs an "out" gay man myself now for 26 years I have had many, many experiences with people like Mr. Santorum. Rarely in life is someone that interested in something that doesn't impact them directly like Santorum is re: the GLBT community. Yes you could say that his passion against the homosexual agenda (by the way could someone clue me into what that agenda really is anyway? I must have missed the orientation.) is simply a moral man's effort to selflessly save us from sin but I think it's just because he hates himself.
"Methinks he dost protest too much" comes to mind right about now.
- 6 votes
#4 - Tue Jan 17, 2012 7:04 PM ESTI stand corrected and it's even more appropriate. I'm terribly afraid I misquoted Hamlet. The actual quote is;
The lady doth protest too much, methinks.
- 3 votes
As I remember it "It takes one to no One" Rick is a closet case if I have ever know one.
- 3 votes
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