Rick Santorum: Gays already have enough rights
Likely Republican presidential candidate and former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum told Fox News' Chris Wallace Sunday that LGBT people don't deserve equal rights.
"You opposed gay marriage," Wallace noted.
"I did," Santorum agreed.
"You oppose civil unions, you want to reinstate 'don't ask, don't tell.' Do you think gays have any rights, should have any access to benefits as partners?" Wallace asked.
"Well, sure. I mean there are all sorts of contractual benefits that anybody can contract for. But the question is whether we should institutionalize that in public policy? My feeling is that people can live their lives however they want to live it," Santorum explained.
"The question is: what are you going to do to try to impact public policy to recognize particular relationships?" he continued. "My feeling is the relationship that should be recognized in public policy that provides exceptional benefit, unusual unique benefits to society is marriage. Marriage between a man and a woman who are there to join together for the purpose of continuing society, which is having children and raising the children in a home with a mom and a dad."
"But you wouldn't give them any rights as a matter of public policy?" Wallace wondered.
"It depends what you mean by 'rights.' Are you talking benefits as far as rights? They have the right to be able to -- employment. I don't know what you mean by rights. What I'm talking about are privileges. Privileges of marriage, privileges of government benefits is a different thing than basic right to live their lives as they well should and can as free Americans," Santorum replied.
The former Pennsylvania senator came under fire in 2003 when he suggested that gays did not have the right to privacy with respect to sexual acts.
"If the Supreme Court says that you have the right to consensual (gay) 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. You have the right to anything," he told The Associated Press.
"In every society, the definition of marriage has not ever to my knowledge included homosexuality. That's not to pick on homosexuality. It's not, you know, man on child, man on dog, or whatever the case may be," he added.
Wallace gave Santorum a chance Sunday to plug his website and plead for contributions. The controversial Republican has launched an exploratory committee and said he will run for president in 2012 if he gets enough donations.
fuck you, you religious asshole...bring home more dead babies for your children to see
Santorum just wanted his other children hold, play and sing to the corpse. Wow, how normal is that??He's a sick FK'N Reslug, as they all are.
What's wrong with man on sheep?
ol rickie hates the'sheep on man' thing,just a guess.
....the fools do not realize,a population that can ,..... not paticipate .............in the 'economy'...,can not keep it viable!..........."we are listening,.......and we're not blind.,......this is your life....this is your time."
"baah" means "no"
Sheep can't enter into a marriage contract.
Sheep can't give informed consent.
Sheep can't express a clear desire and understanding for inter-species sex.
There's that divine right crap, being spewed again. The GOP/teapuppets are the only ones that god loves, and they are more American than anyone else- so all others don't deserve as much rights and acceptance. Because you know, to THEM its so Christian to HATE!
Any group going around saying they are divine should have no problem with teh gays.
What's next the "fabulous" right?
He really has man-on-dog-on-the-brain, doesn't he.
Makes one wonder...
and is more compassionate.
The frothy mix of lube and fecal matter that is sometimes the byproduct of anal sex. Nothing further to discuss.
Humpty Dumpty was pushed.
This guy is off the charts in how offensive he is. Guy is basically saying "well, they have the right to exist... everything else is a 'privilege' that I don't think they deserve."
I have nothing to add. Fuck off, Santorum.
Infertile/Postfertile Hets Beware.. same for hets who don't want children.. cuz Rick says marriage is not for you.. see, the world needs more children.
"If the Supreme Court says that you have the right to consensual (gay) 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
1. Pretty sure adultery isn't illegal already
2. The other 3, as long as it's done by consenting adults, I really don't have a problem with
The corrupt, Reslug leaning Supreme Court needs an overhaul. They are a paid off political machine for the Koch bros. and the rich and do nothing else but suck their little pee-wes.
What I find odd is that the US Supreme Court has a majority of far-right extremist Catholics!
6 or 7 now? scary pathetic....in jebus name,of course.
....the fools do not realize,a population that can ,..... not paticipate .............in the 'economy'...,can not keep it viable!..........."we are listening,.......and we're not blind.,......this is your life....this is your time."
"Next thing you know people will be wanting to marry goats and snakes."
Limp-Dick is just anxious to get to the Dominican Republic to round up his special little sex boys and have a big orgy for a week. The LARD ASS has plenty of viagra for all his sexual baby boy toys, but won't get caught and embarrassed in the airport with massive amounts to bring home again for his boy toys at home.
Those gays already have rights: they are allowed to live at all! Isn't that enough for them?
When President, Santorum will immediately order the US Army to sweep across America and round up all those awful gay people and put them concentrated camps,
for making fun of him- for the good of the nation. Everyone related to gay people will be forcibly sterilized, just in case gay is genetic.Remember: If you like Germany in the 1930s and want gays murdered by the millions, then vote Santorum!
Spears for 55 hours during a bipolar bender, but lesbian couples who've been together for 50 years are not entitled to any such privilege.
"The greatest tyranny is censoring information in order to be better able to control people." - Cristina Saralegui
And your point is???
/SNARK!!
claims to love the lawd.
"The greatest tyranny is censoring information in order to be better able to control people." - Cristina Saralegui
I can't begin to tell you all how much this pisses me off. According to this stupid motherfucker, the only purpose of "marriage" is what he calls "continuing society," in other words "fucking and producing ugly, useless, mouth-breathing kids." So what about all those straight couples out there that choose to not have kids, or can't have them biologically for whatever reason? Hmmm?? I want some fuckin' answers, and if your answer contains the phrase "the Bible says," I will personally track you down and shove your precious Bible up your rural asshole.
And Christians have WAY too many.
Max Blumenthal captured holy-Joe Lieberman giving a shout-out to his friend Rick in this wonderful clip, at about the 6min. mark... it's kinda old but in case ya missed it? "Rapture Ready" :-P
Study the symptoms not the virus...
I think we are going to hear a lot more of this argument that rights are actually privileges that should only be bestowed on the correct people.
Voting rights argued as state controlled privileges.
Citizenship rights argued as state controlled privileges.
Better to restrict the rights of millions than let one undeserving person enjoy a right they are not entitled to.
It is getting downright creepy out there.
We've been free from rickyticky's brand of nazi-ism for a few years. Its like that game of whack a mole. Hey, there's an idea for a new game for dems. Whack a rickyticky instead of moles. If anybody decides to manufacture that game, just remember I thought up the idea and I want royalties!! :-) Thats assuming you can find a manufacturer in the usa; you may have to outsource it to China....
We've all had enough of the right...
Wait...oh, RIGHTS.
Sorry they need to be equal.
Nice shit-eating grin on the guy.
far left loon >.<
"It's not, you know, man on child, man on dog"
That leaves a lot of the Republican Party out...
Similar sentiment to that expressed by many southern whites in the early 1960's with respect to the Civil Rights movement.
It's not surprising that conservatives cannot learn from history, since they are continually revising it.
Santorum should know this. Or at least pretend that he does
That's all you need to know.
Should he or of his ilk ever gain power this nation is finished as a pluralistic and just society. He and his fellow reactionaries unfortunately comprise a significant percentage of our population and actually constitute a form of socio-pathological plague that continues to infect the body politic. Although we believed that the civil rights movement had provided a vaccine against the further spread of the dread disease of ignorance and intolerance, Nixon re-infected us with his Southern Strategy and the ineffectual Carter allowed Reagan to spread the pestillence virtually nationwide. Presently there is no cure visible on the horizon and it may be time to leave the Reich before the impending holocaust!
And extreme-right-wing former-US-Senators have too many.
How dare you. There should be absolutely NO DISTINCTION.
Check out the Constitution, it's your job, you posturing closet case.
me-oww!
What percentage of rights are gay people supposed to have compared to us "normal" folks, Sick Rantorum?
There's really no reason to remind everyone, unless you're trying to embarrass us Pennsylvanians, that slick Rick was once the Senator of PA. It's bad enough we're known as the state that elected Corbett.
just a request, from now on when referencing Santorum could you please refer to him as "The Former United States Senator".
Thank You
is intended to be a factual statement
Study the symptoms not the virus...
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