This is not any kind of big news. We already know that Rick ("Man on Dog") Santorum is a flaming homophobe. But on Sunday he reiterated it on Fox News, and I just had to share my thoughts because he makes me so furious.
In the Fox interview, he implied that gays already have the right to live as they want, and now they just want special privileges.
"It depends what you mean by 'rights'," he said. "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."
Um, Rick: They do NOT have the basic right to live their lives as they well should, because they cannot marry the person they love.
Previously in the same interview, Santorum had said, "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 what about same-sex marriages that do not produce children, due to medical issues, advanced age, etc?
The homophobes never seem to address those cases, or they try to tapdance around them.
What worries me most is that Santorum is thinking about running for president in 2012.
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