Someone asked how Santorum made his $$, So I checked.

[napi21]

It appears he made it as an lawyer practicing in Pgh. But I found something on the web site that absolutely blew my mind!!!!

Read THIS:

He and his wife have six children, Elizabeth Anne, Richard John ("Johnny"), Jr., Daniel James, Sarah Maria, Peter Kenneth, and Patrick Francis. Their son Gabriel Michael was born prematurely in 1996--at 20 weeks--and died two hours after being born. Instead of taking the baby to a funeral home, Rick and his wife brought the palm size Gabriel home to show to their other children (then ages four, six, and eight), take photos and sing to the newborn. <2> Karen used the experience to write a book, Letters to Gabriel: The True Story of Gabriel Michael Santorum ISBN 1568145284. Earlier in the pregnancy, a sonogram revealed their unborn child's closed posterior urethral valve and they were informed of the low probability of his survival to birth.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Santorum

I knew he was a nutcase, but that story about their baby is flat out bizzare!

[merh]

1. So what do you tell the 4 and 6 year old?

How on earth are they expected to understand about Gabriel?

That is just too damned weird, definitely not normal. :crazy:

[sniffa]

2. i'm sure his kids aren't fucked up

[ironman202]

3. a hypocrit's hypocrit.

He was an attorney of the abulance chasing variety.

At the same time he was marshalling through "tort reform" in the senate (if by reform he meant "getting rid of the ability to sue for punitive damages), he was prosecuting a law suit for a relatively minor car accident in which he got $750,000 in punitive damages for his wife and $3million in punitive damages for himself.

[Quakerfriend]

9. This is what's really important.

What they choose to do with their dead baby does not matter.

[Coexist]

4. that is the stuff of nightmares.

those poor kids.

[JohnnyBoots]

10. My folks finally pulled out my little bro and sis from CCD

when they started showing slides of aborted fetuses. That was 10-12 years ago too. It is a very odd and rabid, politicized world view.

[FreedomAngel82]

5. Malloy has talked about this before

And sometimes brings it up out of the blue on his show. It really is weird and shows just more of how messed up this guy is. :crazy: How could HE get elected? :crazy:

[SoCalDem]

6. Hey Doc...Can we take it home to show the kids?

HOW UTTERLY CREEPY...

For YEARS I had dreams after I found a box of old black & white framed pictures of babies in the same old carriage..6 of them. I asked my mother who they were.. She said they were the babies that had died before she and her borther and sister were born. They dressed the baby up and had a photographer take a picture..My grandmother had SIX stillborn before the last 3 survived.

I was a teenager, and it freaked me out.. Can you imagine what those little ones were thinking?

[Beaverhausen]

7. Thanks. That was me who asked about his $$$ and...ewwww!

I heard that baby story before. But still...ewwww!

[napi21]

11. Sorry I didn't answer you directly, but I was SO appaled by that

story, I wanted to give it it's own thread.

I never heard about that before, and sure never heard of anyone doing such a bizzare thing!

I can't even imagine that being a religious thing to do! What in the world was their reasoning????

AGGGGHHHHH!

[Lannes]

8. That is beyond sick

The man is a psychopath.

[DemGirl7]

12. Yeah, he is

and the kids will probably spend a great deal of their adult lives in the psychologist office because that psychopath.

[NMDemDist2]

13. yes I've read about that before here, IIRC they kept the pitiful corpse

at home for THREE DAYS!!

now, I know in the old days families would "lay out" the dead in the parlour for a couple days and pray and folks would have time to travel to the funeral, but IIRC the Santorums hugged and kissed and held and rocked the corpse

There's just something too bizarre about that scenario......

[BlueEyedSon]

14. I heard that they slept with it in bed with them too

dunno how many days or weeks...

[napi21]

15. I don't mean to sound stupid, but are you ALLOWED to do that?

I mean, take a dead baby from a hospital and just take it home? I don't know why, but it just sounds like something that the hospital authorities would say "hey, you can't do that."

BTW, my mother told me about how they used to lay dead relatives out in the parlor too. We are Irish, and the family would have a wake. You see, they celebrated death, since that person had endured the trials of earth and were now reaping their rewards in heaven. There was always irish whisky and beer at the wake, and it wasn't unusual to put a drink in "poor old Uncle Patty's hand".

I've never been to one of these however. Happened long before I was born.