Karen Santorum: Gays 'Vilify' My Husband
Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum's wife, Karen, on Monday accused the gay community of vilifying her husband.
At an event with mothers in South Carolina, a woman, who said her son was gay, told the candidate that she felt guilty for supporting him due to his opposition to gay rights.
"I still have that sense of guilt because his friends react to what they hear," the woman explained. "Help me. How do I deal with that?"
Karen Santorum spoke up in defense of her husband.
"As Rick's wife, I have known him and loved him for 23 years," she said. "I think it's very sad what the gay activists have done out there. They vilify him. It is so wrong. He loves them. What he has simply said is marriage shouldn't happen."
"As far as hating, it's very unfortunate that has happened," Karen Santorum added. "A lot of it is backyard bullying, where people will come up to us and they'll say something. And we'll ask them to give us an example, and they can't even provide one example as to why they took the position they took."
After Santorum compared homosexuality to "man on child, man on dog, or whatever the case may be" in an interview with The Associated Press in 2003, gay activist Dan Savage created a website redefining the former Pennsylvania senator's last name as "the frothy mixture of lube and fecal matter that is sometimes the by-product of anal sex."
For years, Google has returned Savage's website as the top search result for "Santorum."
"The Internet allows for this type of vulgarity to circulate," the candidate complained to Roll Call last year. "It’s unfortunate that we have someone who obviously has some issues. But he has an opportunity to speak."
Speaking to CafeMom's "Moms Matter 2012" on Monday, Santorum said he was "doing what I'm called to do, which is to love everyone and accept everybody."
"This is a public policy difference," he said. "And I think the problem is that some see that public policy difference as a personal assault, that because I believe that marriage, which has existed before governments existed -- marriage existed from the very beginning of time -- it's the way we were meant to be."
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Good to know. His wife is just as crazy as he is. I'm still trying to wrap my head around any woman being able to love little Ricky for 23 years. I am so repulsed by him that I can barely watch him speak.
When you define any position by saying, "And I think the problem is that some see that public policy difference as a personal assault, that because I believe that marriage, which has existed before governments existed -- marriage existed from the very beginning of time -- it's the way we were meant to be.", they are on shaky ground. It's the way we were meant to be, meant by whom?
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
to a guy in his 60's. An abortion doctor. Imagine that.
She did a 60 year old guy for years. I'm sure she has no problem doing Mr. Frothy Mix.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/sant...
Allen, now 92, remembered his ex as “a lovely girl, very intelligent and sweet,” The Daily Beast’s Nancy Hass wrote.
Yet in those days there was no sign of the devout Christian anti-abortion crusader that she became later in life, alongside her politician husband, Allen said.
“Karen had no problems with what I did for a living,” Allen said. “We never really discussed it.”
She moved into the 63-year-old’s basement apartment in 1982, and before long the two were sharing a bed, Hass wrote.
Allen said the romance “wasn't a big deal,” adding that he had a couple of younger girlfriends before bedding the future wife of Santorum
The article in Salon goes on to say that into a 20 week pregnancy Ms. Santorum, for health reasons, hers not the fetus, took a drug that would induce labor, which lead to the fetus being aborted.
http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2012/01/...
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By the admission of their own beliefs, she only had to let Rick bang her 7 times.
I'm sure she got all the pipe she needed laid to her by the old guy.
Vote GOP and move forward to the 18th Century.
santorum believes that civil law should follow
shari'abiblical law.that means 2nd class citizenship for gays AND women.
The audience she was addressing has been marginalized by her husband's staff.
Of course the email "was personal and not meant for the public", like that somehow changes the meaning.
a santorum staffer said women shouldn’t be President because it’s against god’s will.
http://caucuses.desmoinesregister.com/2012/01... (#5)
""santorum’s Iowa coalitions director, Jamie Johnson, sent out an email saying that children’s lives would be harmed if the nation had a female president. He wrote it in June, but it surfaced on the campaign trail in the fall."
“The question then comes, ‘Is it God’s highest desire, that is, his biblically expressed will, … to have a woman rule the institutions of the family, the church, and the state?’ ” Johnson’s email said."
Johnson said the email was meant to be a private message to a friend, that he sent it from his personal email account, not his campaign account, and that he hadn’t intended it to be read by anyone else.
“We did believe that sexism — I use the stronger word misogyny — was at play,” said Peter Waldron, Bachmann’s faith outreach coordinator.
Three influential pastors called for her to bow out of the race, and numerous others said “that a female could not be a civil magistrate,” said Waldron, who lives in Florida and has worked six presidential campaigns dating to Ronald Reagan’s in 1980.""
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It's been my policy to not criticize these two people for grieving for their lost wanted pregnancy (the method they chose to act out that grief, then to publicly share that method as if it's something sane... that's another matter entirely).
That said, I don't think this apparently quite fragile woman really wants to enter into that fray... Savage's brilliant revenge is full notice that one can say the most batshit comments on earth, but there will be at least someone willing to call it what it is.
As a aside... I found something really kind of funny about Yahoo's filtering mechanism... it's very much like Carlin's riff about piss and **** (didn't know if we filtered the latter)...
I found that words like "damn" are replaced with comicbook-like mixed characters, yet lets "batshit" sail right on through... I found that out when commenting to someone and it turned out something like:
"@58&*(, you batshit (()&**&T&*... I'll be ^#$!&* if I let a batshit &^&*&^ refer to me like that &&*(& it!"
LOL
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Apparently we do filter that word... thanks... not one I use often, but nice to know where the filter draws the line here.... truly.
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Latinos don't think too highly of Joe Arpaio.
Muslims aren't exactly buddy, buddy with Pam Gellar.
Dog lovers dislike Micheal Vick.
Little brown boys aren't too fond of Limbaugh.
Awesome. XD
from the days when little brown boys disliked Pete Wilson.
but that might be a regional SoCal thing.
Wow, he really does always wear that sweater vest...
I'm sure anti-civil rights speakers "loved" blacks, too. They just didn't want to give them equal rights. What's the big deal?
I guess she's not noticed, her husband vilifies gays.
me-oww!
And people should continue to vilify Santorum as long as he insists on vilifying fellow Americans.
You stop bigotry by making it socially unacceptable to be a bigot. If you give bigots a free pass, they'll just go on being bigots.
Hypocrisy. Selective memory. Rationalization. Projection. Riech winger.
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Nah, they both like dogs. They just don't want them to marry.
So she's saying what goes around comes around. Good to know.
But that's different.
When Gay's do it, it's mean.
Republicans: Steal your retirement, foreclose your home after they ship your job overseas, take away your health care, and vilify innocent people for personal gain.
Then complain when the GOP victims have the nerve to stand up to them.
If I were a psychopath, I would join the republican party, and get in on the gravy train taking the Teabircher morons to the cleaners.
hey karen santorum,
give your husband a box of
BELGIUM CHOCOLATE.........
deservedly so!
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With little ricky's fascination with gays she must have thought about the fact that her husband is living in the closet as a gay man. His life would be so much better if would just face his orientation honestly.
Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.
I know this is O/T, so I'll try to make it short.
I heard Romney himmin' and hawin' on the radio today, disgussing his tax returns, and saying he paid roughly 15% in taxes the last several years - because his earnings were investments. Ahem....
The fascist aren't even hiding it anymore. The are fully out of the fascist closet now, because they know how stupid the GOP base is, and dispite his revelation, 45% of the people will still go out and vote for this woking class serial killer..
If I were a psychopath, I would join the republican party, and get in on the gravy train taking the Teabircher morons to the cleaners.
The geek only wears those sleeveless things so he can probe all the way up the sphincter.
Tilly
Those mean old' Jews keep vilifying our poor Hitler.
Mrs. Santorum,
A couple of things. Even though I am a gay man, I don't vilify your husband. I vilify his personal and political views. I vilify the fact that he is a member of Opus Dei. I also vilify the fact that your husband doesn't wish to be President of the United States, he want's to Supreme Theocrat of the United Christian States.
Also, Adam and Eve were never married, according to the bible that your husband holds so dear. They lived in sin. Think about it and you will see the fallacy of your arguments.
Your husband should never be allowed near the Oval Office, not even for a visit. The Office of the President of the United States is not a religious office. The fact that a person such as your husband even has a national stage is disgusting.
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Ah, yes. Santorum, the wealthy white man is the victim in all this. So sad.
The last refuge of a cowardly man...hiding behind his wife.
Vote GOP and move forward to the 18th Century.
now his wife is coming to his defense??!?!
I knew he was shady by the cut of his sweater vest.
or was that too much?
sorry couldn't help it. this blog doesn't have enough holocaust humor.
but we sure do have some sex jokes.
anyway these santorum types don't understand that making people adopt your beliefs is not acceptance, it is in fact, material and psychological oppression. imagine if an athiest lawmaker suggested we make all marriage illegal, no more christian marriages, would santorum say that the secular left was simply accepting the religious right. of course not, there would be a call to arms. seriously, civil war would break out if you said straight people couldn't get married. so "acceptance" really means "I hear you, but I don't give a shit". They treat non-belief as if you were a delusional child. hush hush little gay person with your feelings and desires for silly equal rights, you're just having a bad dream. shut your eyes and go to sleep and never talk about this again. they think stockholm syndrome is a method.
Come on, we're better than they are. Stop it C&L!
She said "Gay Activists" not "Gays". It makes a huge difference.
They're bigots, of course. But don't misquote them to make it worse than it is.
they said "Black Activists" not "Blacks" see if you could word it like that and get away with it.
like gays that aren't "activists" don't want equal rights. His problem isn't with gays just the ones that want to be treated equal to everyone else. huge difference, excellent point.
Whether its blacks or gays or the left-handed, the issue is the same. The statement itself that "Gays are attacking my husband" is prejudiced, regardless of her husband's other bigoted opinions. But that's not what she said, and pointing out that activists for a cause are attacking him is a factual statement.
We don't need to make these people sound worse than they already are.
I'm usually calling out misquotes and bending stories to a certain slant here, but I don't really see what the big deal is between 'gays' and 'gay activists'. It's not as if the activist part is what she has a problem with. Republicans tend to think that any gay person who doesn't simper and pray for forgiveness for existing is an activist anyway.
"Being attacked by Gay Activists" is a factual statement (though the attacks are justified).
"Being attacked by Gays" is a statement of prejudice. Not all gays are attacking him and being Gay doesn't in-and-of-itself cause a person to attack Rick Santorum.
Its the only way she can justify her husband spending 30 hours a week studying gay porn on the web.
It's just another way he shows his love of the gays.
"A lot of it is backyard bullying, where people will come up to us and they'll say something. And we'll ask them to give us an example, and they can't even provide one example as to why they took the position they took."
Examples of what? This sentence appears to make no sense. She's expecting people to provide examples as to why they're not bigots?
Holy shit, the blinders on this woman are so thick I'm amazed she can even WALK.
There's always free cheddar in the mousetrap, baby. - Tom Waits
Santorum cannot explain why infertile heterosexuals should be allowed to marry, but homosexuals cannot. If a woman has dropped her last egg, what is the point of marriage for her? What's the point of having sex with her, if you're her husband? If it's not to produce children, then it's for love. And that's a rather serious logic problem for him -- and he should be pressed on it.
Children cannot give informed consent any more than animals can. It's a red herring. But a homosexual couple can have love for each other -- on par with the love shared between an infertile man and his fertile wife, or a fertile man and his infertile wife.
Oh please spare us your victim mentality and paranoia--get some fucking help. Or maybe you are beyond it already.
"We will find fulfillment not in the goods that we have, but in the good we can do for each other."
Robert F. Kennedy
What an asshole. "I said terrible things about homosexuals...then they responded. I'm the victim!"
Ricky's crocodile tears plus his wife sticking up for that pussy. The bastard deserves every joke, insult and google search that comes his way.
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Any criticism of the ideas, policies and pronouncements of so-called Christians tends to be whined about as criticism of someone's faith these days.
Got no problem with Christianity, per se... just don't believe in it, or I'd be a Christian. But these folks remind me of Bill Cosby's riff about cocaine, when some blow-head said "but it enhances your personality," to which Bill's answer was "Yeah, but what if you're an asshole?"
I've known plenty of people of faith, by whatever label, that don't use said faith as a cover for being "an asshole... just a forgiven asshole." Sorry, that doesn't wash... and for these people to use their Catholic faith in the way they do... not only does it put them well outside the mainstream of US citizenry, but their cafeteria selections of the most reactionary elements and teachers of the faith puts them well outside the bounds of modern Catholic doctrine and policies... further to the right than Pope Dominic, and that takes some doing!
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I would bet that Jesus wants nothing to do with Santorum. It appears to me that Jesus despised the smugly self-righteous haters and the hypocrits, especially those who behaved as they did in the name of God.
Cosby said that?
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As I read that article I realized they could use the exact same words only changing them to Black when his next "scandal" from poorly chosen words arises.
I think you mean 'blah,' as in
me-oww!
or the candidate?
He masks his crucifixion of homosexuals in universal biblical terms, which draws faithful people in, as if he is speaking in Jesus's name. But, his personal judgment seems priority in his own soul... his words make that clear for those who are listening.
"information is a very powerful thing."
Karen Baby, He earned and deserves VILIFICATION!
"marriage existed from the very beginning of time": not in any version of history I know. Not even in the Bible. Please point out to me the verse/verses in Genesis where Adam and Eve are married? And if one is rational, the beginning of Time is either the Big Bang or even before, so marriage was unlikely to be performed in the primordial Quantum soup, no?
So Santorum, you're a liar.
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Santorum is a deranged hate peddler who imagines his self-righteous hate and bigotry to be virtues. What a schmuck.
http://oursilverribbon.org/blog/?p=188
"Santorum: Our Abortion Was Different"
talks about after the ultrasound where she was informed that the baby would die, she all of a sudden 'needed' this procedure..(that couldn't wait until the baby was viable)....interesting.....they knew the risk of infection with this surgery..how convenient.
Have to read the whole thing...describes the procedure that she 'needed' in the paragraph beginning: (..)"After consulting with specialists who offered several solutions including abortion, the Santorums decided on a long-shot intrauterine surgery to correct an obstruction in the urinary tract..."(......) the procedure carried a high risk of infection.
I believe The Allies 'vilified' the Hitler during WW2 as well. How could they have done such a thing to such an innocent man who kept his words and military to himself?
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"It’s unfortunate that we have someone who obviously has some issues."
Well, you married him and have been married to him for over two decades. It's a bit late to complain now.
doesn't need a delusional, religious f_cknut in the White House. The Constitution is clear on religion and public office. What don't the right wingnuts understand about this??
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Marriage as you know is a construct of the Middle Ages, a social contract that allowed two families -- not individuals -- to arrange the future of their children under legal contract. The beginning of time had nothing to do with it and there were certainly governments around long before. The fact is that the GLBT community is simply asking for the right form the same business contract you so ignorantly enjoy.
And as for gay people vilifying your husband? He's doing a pretty good job of that all by himself. And how do you like being Mrs Frothy?
...but he wants to be Pope.
It's because she really knows her husbandis a habitual liar and always was hiding in the closet himself. She knows he can't come out of the closet because Reslugs would hang him.
She is absolutely a nutcase too like her husand passing their dead babies corpse around to their kids to hug and talk too. Really FK'N deranged sicko's who shouldn't ever have been allowed to have or keep children.
There is nothing "simple" about what that moron has said over the years about gays and being gay.Secondly, there are a lot of things that have been around since the beginning of time and marriage ain't one of them.And everybody knows that marriage was more about property and dowrys where the man "owned' his wife and everything she brought to the marriage.So it would be safe to say that marriage itself has changed and will continue to change like it always has.And thirdly, and most laughably,she claims that he actually "loves" the gays but disagrees with them on policy. What a load. Typical Catholic hypocrisy.They seem to have collective amnesia when it comes down to "We're all God's children" or "Love thy neighbor as thyself".
Historical revisionism. He wasn't talking about marriage. He was defending laws that allowed consenting adults to be thrown into jail for what they did behind closed doors, equating what consenting adults do with each other to something that an adult does to a non-consenting party like an animal or a child. In his world, it should still be a crime to engage in non-procreative consensual sex, and the police should have the power to incarcerate people for engaging in such activities or facilitating such activities by selling, for example, contraception.
Sex with Rick has never been the same eh?
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