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

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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.

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

[Unvanguard]

1. Well, is he married to his sister?

Seriously, in what world does this bigoted moron live?

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[NJSecularist]

3. Who's Rick Santorum?

He's irrelevant at this point. Pennsylvania voters told us what they thought of him when they voted his sorry ass out by 10%.

[Joe Bacon]

10. Bob Casey kicked his worthless man on dog ass!

It was worth every cent I borrowed on my Mastercard to see Casey kick the Santorum out of Sick Rick!

[Lex]

4. His Norway "facts" have been widely debunked

I do believe.

He's an idiot and a homophobe. Wait, that's redundant.

[angstlessk]

6. exactly, here is a link to a slate article on gay marriage in Scandinavia

http://www.slate.com/id/2100884/

[madeline_con]

5. Is he having incestuous sex? n/t

[fascisthunter]

7. So... to Fetus Boy, having a Brother is seen as the same as a Gay Relationship

man is he one confused weirdo.... let it go! Spend time in your own personal life and let people do what they want without your bizarre obsession. It's pathetic and embrassing!

Mind your own private life, and stay out of other's, because yours is pretty f*cked up.



Notice how the kids are dressed up like the kids from "Little House on the Prairie"?

[rurallib]

8. Santorum

:grr: :grr: :grr: :grr:

Isn't he the one who wanted to marry his brother's dog?

[tishaLA]

9. he's a frothy mixture, alright

[Bluebear]

11. Why, is he committing to his brother in an incestuous lifetime bond?

[Lex]

12. the dude needs help

post-haste

[Ilsa]

13. Uh, Rick, I think your momma must have slept with her daddy to make you.

What a typical response from an idiot thug: try to confuse the issue with nonsense that has nothing to do with the subject.

[belpejic]

14. I've heard Ricky also loves his dog.

Not that there's anything wrong with that...

[gollygee]

15. He's being deliberately obtuse

He knows it's about romantic love, not brotherly love. He's playing dumb. Which is probably not a great stretch for him.

[Solly Mack]

16. apparently, the Santorum family does everything together

to include Fido...

[DefenseLawyer]

17. Slow day at the car wash, Rick?

[rockymountaindem]

18. One would assume that since he cannot marry his sister under current law

he would have no better luck marrying his brother if gay marriage is legalized.

[Canuckistanian]

19. Santorum needs counselling. First, his dog and now his brother.

He really needs to have an outlet for his sexual fantasies.

Does his wife know about his problem?

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[pleah]

20. And we care what he thinks, WHY?

:shrug:

[Fleshdancer]

21. No, but keeping your head firmly up your own a$$ might count as sodomy

This man child is a piece of work. :eyes:

[Puzzle]

22. Just sent him and the newspaper this note

Rick,

If you think your love for your child is the same romantic love a gay couple has for each other, no wonder you are confused and scared.

If it acts like a homophobe and a bigot and talks like a homophobe and a bigot, it is a homophobe and a bigot.

[mach2]

23. Loves his brother...? Did he happen to mention how often?

:eyes:

[backscatter712]

24. There's a reason why a certain bodily product is called "Santorum"

:puke:

[SalmonChantedEvening]

25. Saintwhorum strikes again.

Rickie hasn't gotten a lot of attention lately, and aside from taking cash from suckers, it's what he craves most in life.

[kskiska]

26. Where does Santorum live these days?

Is he still claiming to live in that 2-bedroom house in Pennsylvania?

[MiniMe]

27. Sounds more like incest to me

[Rosemary2205]

28. Funny how his first thought goes right to incest.

Freepers........... sigh.

[Charlie Brown]

30. another nutter trying to win the veepstakes

and why was he speaking at Georgetown? I thought they were a credible institution.

[Nikki Stone1]

31. Oh, come on. His brother probably doesn't love him anyway.

:)

[LucyParsons]

32. Theocratic ideology posing as intellectualism, once again

What's wrong with more children born out of "wedlock" (how terrible does THAT sound? I don't want be be "wedlocked" to anyone, thankyouverymuch!)?

What's wrong with less people getting married?

I guess that, despite having his ass handed to him in the last election, Rick still hasn't gotten the memo that we don't all share his Biblical-literalist assumptions.

Norway is not the USA. Fewer marriages does not necessarily mean less present fathers. I daresay their more liberal birth control and abortion policies will result in FAR fewer fatherless children - because they won't have been born in the first place.

Nevermind that most of us younger people today either grew up in nontraditional families (be they divorced, single-parent, step-families, extended families, or same-sex-parent families) or witness enough of them among our peers that they do not seem abnormal to us - growing up outside a Victorian-style nuclear family doesn't necessarily mean that we will turn out to be morally and civically deficient citizens. Forms of societies change, Rick. Women don't all want to get married at 18 and surrender their personal sovreignty and have four kids and be trapped in a loveless marriage anymore, Rick. Deal with it.

What an asshole.

[Bette Noir]

33. Santorum is pure evil.

I knew that from the time he was on "The Daily Show," telling Jon Stewart that fathers have an absolute right to raise their kids as they see fit, even if that means beating and raping them.

[Withywindle]

34. Message to Rick Santorum: Just stop.

Just fucking stop. I don't want to have nightmares about you and your dog and your brother and your mother-in-law and whatever fellow ex-Senator you're having unbecoming feelings about this week.

That needs to be between you and your therapist (and the Humane Society, if you were serious about the dog thing).

Your personal life, and your private fantasies are that: personal and private.

Just stop please. Thank you.

[Toucano]

35. FUCKING LIAR!

Marriage rates have INCREASED in Norway. In 2000, it was the highest in 30 years.




They also have a higher life expectancy than people in the United States, Ricky. Not to mention lower incarceration rate, lower crime rate, lower murder rate. So "the welfare of the children" seems to be just fine.

[Jed Dilligan]

36. I just cannot wait for his Larry Craig moment

[SoCalDem]

37. Aaaw. Ricky's back... How special.. Let's go down memory lane with Ricky

[bumblebee1]

38. Idiot. Sanscrotum is thy name.

Apparently when teaching about the different kinds of love, Sanscrotum was probably out sick from school.