Rick Santorum Thinks Gay Marriage Is Like Slavery

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http://www.deathandtaxesmag.com/151853/rick-santorum-thinks-gay-marriage-is-like-slavery/

The most notable thing about bland presidential candidate Rick Santorum is his tenacious, almost obsessive crusade against gay rights. The former Pennsylvania senator has compared same-sex love to bestiality, says gays are waging a “jihad” against him, wants to reinstate Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell and continues to peddle predatory “reparative therapy,” or the gay “cure.”

He is so impassioned by his fight, Santorum compares himself to Abraham Lincoln fighting another “moral wrong,” slavery.

“I have been a long-time advocate for states’ rights. However, I believe as Abraham Lincoln did — that states don’t have the rights to legalize moral wrongs,” said Santorum yesterday.

The comment came in response to rival Herman Cain’s assertion earlier in the day that states should be allowed to decide gay marriage on an individual basis.

“I wouldn’t seek a constitutional ban for same-sex marriage, but I am pro traditional marriage,” Cain told ‘Meet the Press’ host David Gregory. States “ make up their own minds” under his hypothetical presidency. It’s surprising that Cain, a man who so often toes the extreme right wing line, as he does when it comes to Islam, would take a relatively moderate stance on marriage. The Republican Party’s base, particularly religious social conservatives, want to see a ban on gay marriage from coast-to-coast. But Cain’s position is less shocking that Santorum’s misguided comparison between himself and Lincoln.

[Ian David]

1. What KIND of gay porn has Rick Santorum been reading??

[Scuba]

2. Rick, you dumb shit. Lincoln was working to free the slaves, not enslave them. n/t

[NMMNG]

3. You know what they say about legislating morality

(Regardless of whose version of "morality" it is.) Too bad the RRRWers never learned that lesson.

[Zoeisright]

4. "Rick Santorum thinks" is an oxymoron.

Sick Rantorum (sic) is an incredibly stupid asshole.

[chollybocker]

5. I think straight Christian marriage is slavery.

For the Missus, anyway.

[Initech]

6. Will he ever shut up about this?

[shraby]

7. the noisiest and most anti-gay are usually ones in the closet.