Holy Santorum's family life. (Another not for the easily nauseated)

[BurtWorm]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A61804-2005Apr17?language=printer

Father First, Senator Second
For Rick Santorum, Politics Could Hardly Get More Personal

By Mark Leibovich
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, April 18, 2005; Page C01

In his Senate office, on a shelf next to an autographed baseball, Sen. Rick Santorum keeps a framed photo of his son Gabriel Michael, the fourth of his seven children. Named for two archangels, Gabriel Michael was born prematurely, at 20 weeks, on Oct. 11, 1996, and lived two hours outside the womb.

Upon their son's death, Rick and Karen Santorum opted not to bring his body to a funeral home. Instead, they bundled him in a blanket and drove him to Karen's parents' home in Pittsburgh. There, they spent several hours kissing and cuddling Gabriel with his three siblings, ages 6, 4 and 1 1/2. They took photos, sang lullabies in his ear and held a private Mass.

http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/images/I61787-2005Apr17

"When you stick your head out of the foxhole, people shoot at you. I've stuck my head out of a foxhole," says Sen. Rick Santorum. (Robert A. Reeder -- The Washington Post)




"That's my little guy," Santorum says, pointing to the photo of Gabriel, in which his tiny physique is framed by his father's hand. The senator often speaks of his late son in the present tense. It is a rare instance in which he talks softly.

[Bill McBlueState]

1. eeks.

Upon their son's death, Rick and Karen Santorum opted not to bring his body to a funeral home. Instead, they bundled him in a blanket and drove him to Karen's parents' home in Pittsburgh. There, they spent several hours kissing and cuddling Gabriel with his three siblings, ages 6, 4 and 1 1/2. They took photos, sang lullabies in his ear and held a private Mass.


That's really, really, really creepy. No atheist would ever do that.

[BurtWorm]

3. "Sang lullabies in his ear..."

:scared:

[wellst0nev0ter]

2. For Those Of You Who Think It's Wrong To Belittle A Grieving Father

Remember he is using his son's corpse for a political agenda. And making his other children pose with a dead body is beyond morbid.

And, yes, the Santorums would have had an abortion if the baby was not born prematurely due to his wife's life-threatening infection.

Fuggin hypocrites.

[beam me up scottie]

10. Thank you for preempting the inevitable

hissy fit.

[Straight Shooter]

4. Republicans, the party of ghouls and cannibals

Using the dead, any way they can, to promote their agenda.

I wonder if a Democratic Senator could get away with bringing home a dead baby for his young children to "kiss and cuddle," without an outrage and accusations of child abuse from the right wing fundies. Score another one for the Cult of Life. *ahem* Cult of Death.

[Midlodemocrat]

5. My God.

He is an unbelievable freak. I feel for those kids being raised by those maniacs.

[Ironpost]

6. rick santorum stinks to high heaven

I can smell his stinking ass all the way to Oklahoma.

[Stephanie]

7. This is child abuse

Isn't it? Would a psychologist weigh in here. This has to be highly traumatic for those very young children.

[BurtWorm]

8. "Kiss your little brother, Timmy.

Sing a lullaby in his cold, dead ear..."

[AlCzervik]

9. I read that yesterday and almost puked and then heard randi going off

about it, thats just weird and sick. Thats some article btw.