Tag: Rick Santorum

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Rick Santorum: “Whaaaaa… mommy, they made fun of me after I made fun of them”

If you should Google Rick Santorum you find some widely read links at the top of the search results ever since gay columnist Dan Savage organized an online campaign to link graphic sexual terms to the socially conservative senator’s name.

Now, the Republican presidential candidate says he’s convinced Google could do something to remedy the issue, if the company wanted to, according to Politico.

“I suspect if something was up there like that about Joe Biden, they’d get rid of it,” Santorum said. “If you’re a responsible business, you don’t let things like that happen in your business that have an impact on the country.”

He continued: “To have a business allow that type of filth to be purveyed through their website or through their system is something that they say they can’t handle but I suspect that’s not true.”

I’m not quite sure what he’s complaining about. If you Google Rick’s name, you find out a lot about him quite easily. Isn’t that the point of a search engine on the internet???

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Rick Santorum tweaks Rick Perry on gay marriage

Rick Santorum, currently running in the back of the pack of contenders for the GOP nomination for President, now says he didn’t compare same sex couples to incest back in 2003. However, just as a reminder, here’s what he said back then:

“The Supreme Court says that you have the right to consensual sex within your home, then you have the right to bigamy, you have the right to polygamy, you have the right to incest, you have the right to adultery.”

That sounds like a comparison to me.

He says in this clip “States do not have the right to destroy the American family.”

I completely agree. And equal rights for all doesn’t destroy the American family. It strengthens it.

Santorum went on to say, “It’s not fine with me that New York has destroyed marriage, it is not fine with me that New York is setting the template that will cause great division in this country.”

That comment, of course, was a dig at potential competitor Rick Perry, who initially said he supported state’s rights regarding marriage, and was then forced to reiterate his opposition to gay marriage to save face.

Years ago, the conservative stance was gays were promiscuous and were unable to commit to long-term relationships. Now, the position is we shouldn’t have the right to commit and enjoy the same rights as other tax paying citizens.

Santorum says that NY state just “destroyed” marriage.

How? I don’t know. I’ve been in the same relationship for 17 years. I’ve been legally married for almost 8. My marriage hasn’t “destroyed” anything or anyone.

What I do know is a lot of tax paying citizens of NY state just got a little more equal by being allowed to marry the person they love.

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Santorum wants to repeal NY state marriage equality

Big surprise. GOP presidential contender Rick Santorum says he will go to NY state and help repeal marriage equality.

Notice the ‘thunderous’ applause of the dozen or so people listening to him.

In the recording, Santorum asks “for what purpose?” do gays want the right to marry?

Rick – one word. Equality.

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Santorum Loses Again

From the Advocate: Rep. Michele Bachmann can claim she was the first to actually sign a document pledging her faithfulness to a list of homophobic beliefs, but Rick Santorum was a close second.

The Family Leader, which invented the pledge as a litmus test for its endorsement, clarified that although Santorum signed the document on Friday, he was the first to make contact after “The Marriage Vow” was announced on Thursday.

It seems Bachmann must have beaten him to the fax machine with her signed copy. The results of the photo finish were reported by the Des Moines Register.

The two were racing to profess their belief that gay men are a public health risk, that gay parents are inferior to straight parents, and that homosexuality is a choice. Those are a few of the boldly inaccurate arguments made by the pledge for banning gay marriage with a constitutional amendment at the federal level.

Santorum has long held claim to the socially conservative vote, but Bachmann has been outshining him in polls in Iowa and elsewhere. For example, the well respected Des Moines Register poll taken of likely caucus goers in late June found 22% support Bachmann while just 4% went for Santorum.

The Family Leader’s endorsement could be coveted since it’s a powerful force in the state, having successfully campaigned to unseat three Iowa Supreme Court justices who legalized gay marriage there.

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Rick Santorum on his Google problem: “there are vile people out there who do horrible things”

Rick Santorum discusses his Google problem with Chuck Todd on MSNBC.

Santorum has compared same-sex marriage to sex with dogs, has said that it’s “common sense” to keep gays from marrying and adopting children, wants to reinstate the ban on gays in the military, and has said that gays shouldn’t have the “privilege of government benefits” offered to heterosexual couples, yet Santorum claims he’s not a homophobe.