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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSantorum Says He'll Be A Strong Leader Because He Backed Gay Sex Bans
At a meeting with Iowa state legislators yesterday recorded by the Iowa conservative blog Caffeinated Thoughts, Rick Santorum boasted that he proved himself as a strong leader when he opposed the 2003 Supreme Court decision striking down anti-gay sodomy bans. Without such leadership against LGBT rights, he warned, life as we know it, particularly the family, is going to be on a very, very bad track over the long term.
Addressing the controversy over so-called religious freedom measures in Arkansas and Indiana that were softened by legislators to make it more difficult to use them as a cover for discrimination, Santorum lamented that what happened there was the media created a firestorm and leaders didnt lead.
Ive been through that firestorm, he explained. I go back 13 years to when I was in the Senate and stood up and said, If the Supreme Court decides a case this way, then all these bad things are going to start happening. And I said we would have same-sex marriage in this country in ten years. I was wrong: it was five years. And I was put through a national wringer like no one had been put through and I have been put through over and over and over again because I am not going to back down from what I believe is the right course for our country.
Although Santorum likes to claim that all of his dire predictions about the aftermath of Lawrence v. Texas came true, that isnt exactly accurate. He told CNN at the time: "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."
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Santorum Says He'll Be A Strong Leader Because He Backed Gay Sex Bans (Original Post)
DonViejo
Apr 2015
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The 13 yr old classmate who always ran and told the teacher on you when you swore or smoked
NoJusticeNoPeace
Apr 2015
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NoJusticeNoPeace
(5,018 posts)1. The 13 yr old classmate who always ran and told the teacher on you when you swore or smoked
a cigarette, etc.
They didnt grow up, their bodies did but not their brains or emotions.
Add the religion to a grown man who thinks like a 13 yr old and this is the result.
Enrique
(27,461 posts)2. cut him some slack
he has a name to live up to
Historic NY
(37,453 posts)3. Its starting to spread already.
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)4. Who is this Santorum person I keep hearing about?
Guess I'll go Google him.
jmowreader
(50,562 posts)5. If this was about guns you'd hear a different tune