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Rick Santorum Supports Constitutional Amendment Banning Marriage Equality

Presidential hopeful Rick Santorum tells John King that he supports a federal constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage:

I support a constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage. I believe that marriage should be a consistent thing across the country. Marriage is the union of one man and one woman…

Once people realize the consequence to society of changing this definition — it’s not that we’re against anybody. People can live the life they want to live. They can do whatever they want to do in the privacy of their home with respect to that activity.

But now you’re talking about changing the laws of the country. and it’s gonna have a profound impact on society, on faith, on education. And once people realize that, they say, you know what, we respect people’s right to live the life they want to lead but don’t try to fundamentally change how society functions by changing that definition.

No, he’s not ‘against’ anybody, He’s just against gays having the same rights as he does.

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Santorum “had nothing to do” with his campaign slogan

Rick Santorum’s Thursday announcement that he will build his presidential campaign war chest under the slogan “Fighting to Make America America Again” hit a snag when ThinkProgress pointed out it bears more than a striking resemblance to a poem by Langston Hughes.

During a Friday afternoon New Hampshire appearance, Santorum was asked by the site’s Lee Fang whether he was aware that the slogan was lifted from the Harlem Renaissance poet’s “Let America Be America Again.” A gay rights advocate, Hughes’ work includes “Café: 3 a.m.,” which criticizes a police raid on a gay establishment.

The antigay pol replied that he had “nothing to do” with the slogan.

“I didn’t know that. The folks who worked on that slogan for me didn’t inform me that that’s where it came from, if in fact it came from that,” Santorum said.

Nice to know “Man-on-dog” Santorum has no idea how or by whom major campaign components are coming together.   Sounds like a born leader to me.
(via Advocate.com)