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Rick Santorum Says Gay Marriage Is Like Marrying Your Brother Or Niece, Sexual Abuse Higher In Gay Families

Republican Presidential Rick Santorum isn't running away from his confrontational views on same-sex marriage, and there's no shortage of them. In a 2008 interview with radio host Mike Signorile, Santorum said same-sex marriage is similar to marrying your brother or niece and that sexual and physical abuse to children is higher in gay households (a statistic the American Psychological Association calls a “myth.”) posted

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  • Natalie Belmonte thinks Rick Santorum Says Gay Marriage Is Li... is Fail & Trashy  about 2 months ago
  • adrianecoblentzh thinks Rick Santorum Says Gay Marriage Is Li... is Fail  about 2 months ago
  • STFU

    ricks15
    2 months ago
  • ricks15   Rick Santorum Says Gay Marriage Is Li... and thinks it’s Ew, Trashy & Fail  about 2 months ago
  • ionicwalrus thinks Rick Santorum Says Gay Marriage Is Li... is Trashy & Fail  about 2 months ago
  • Alice M. thinks Rick Santorum Says Gay Marriage Is Li... is Fail, Trashy & Ew  about 3 months ago
  • Nigelmc thinks Rick Santorum Says Gay Marriage Is Li... is Fail  about 3 months ago
  • billm12 thinks Rick Santorum Says Gay Marriage Is Li... is Fail, Ew & Woof!  about 3 months ago
  • tonedeadj thinks Rick Santorum Says Gay Marriage Is Li... is Fail  about 3 months ago
  • tonis3 thinks Rick Santorum Says Gay Marriage Is Li... is WTF & Fail  about 3 months ago
  • Has this guy said anything about something other than social issues? Every time I see this blowhard on TV he's saying something about how women and gays are basically sub-human. What makes it even worse is that there are people out there that actually agree with this jerk. I weep for society.

    BlueSerenade
    3 months ago
  • theonlyad thinks Rick Santorum Says Gay Marriage Is Li... is WTF & Fail  about 3 months ago
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  • josephb16 thinks Rick Santorum Says Gay Marriage Is Li... is Ew, Fail & WTF  about 3 months ago
  • Hotspot F. thinks Rick Santorum Says Gay Marriage Is Li... is Fail  about 3 months ago
  • peterhollens   Rick Santorum Says Gay Marriage Is Li... and thinks it’s Trashy, Fail & WTF  about 3 months ago
  • laicid thinks Rick Santorum Says Gay Marriage Is Li... is Fail  about 3 months ago
  • I find it funny that Santorum answers questions with irrelevant, pointless questions. It's insulting to our intelligence, and it's a cop-out. He's basically saying, I don't know the answer to this, and since he doesn't want to come out and say that directly, he's going to answer with question that divert attention away from the topic at hand. And, as the interview progresses, if that doesn't work, he's just going to make stuff up.

    amandah45
    3 months ago
  • amandah45 thinks Rick Santorum Says Gay Marriage Is Li... is Fail  about 3 months ago
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  • aed0924 thinks Rick Santorum Says Gay Marriage Is Li... is WTF, Trashy & Fail  about 3 months ago
  • How would the christians like it if an atheist candidate proposed a law to get rid of marriage and just allowed civil unions because they hate anything to do with christians and their traditions?

    Hatter
    3 months ago
  • lchen12345   Rick Santorum Says Gay Marriage Is Li... and thinks it’s Fail  about 3 months ago
  • Mark Castle   Rick Santorum Says Gay Marriage Is Li... and thinks it’s Fail  about 3 months ago
  • cypress213 thinks Rick Santorum Says Gay Marriage Is Li... is Fail  about 3 months ago
  • Santorum's a jerk, but the interviewer is totally useless too. Why can't he answer the question about polygamy?  The ugly truth is that it wouldn't affect anyone if siblings could marry, or if polygamists had a legal framework to work within. The examples of abuse and exploitation occur in these compounds precisely because polygamy is driven underground and illegal.  It's both hilarious and disheartening to hear marriage equality campaigners using the same empty arguments against polygamy that are used against gays.

    tristram13
    3 months ago
  • sylviel   Rick Santorum Says Gay Marriage Is Li... and thinks it’s WTF, Ew & Fail  about 3 months ago
  • theresap4 thinks Rick Santorum Says Gay Marriage Is Li... is Fail  about 3 months ago
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  • elisep   Rick Santorum Says Gay Marriage Is Li... and thinks it’s Fail & WTF  about 3 months ago
  • That fucker will lie about the change in his pockets.

    Tom D.
    3 months ago
  • maryk9   Rick Santorum Says Gay Marriage Is Li... and thinks it’s Fail, WTF & OMG  about 3 months ago
  • samb19 thinks Rick Santorum Says Gay Marriage Is Li... is Fail  about 3 months ago
  • jenniv thinks Rick Santorum Says Gay Marriage Is Li... is Fail  about 3 months ago
  • Keep spreading the Santorum lol

    auntpotato
    3 months ago
  • mariannen thinks Rick Santorum Says Gay Marriage Is Li... is Fail  about 3 months ago
  • Em0987654321 thinks Rick Santorum Says Gay Marriage Is Li... is Trashy, Fail & WTF  about 3 months ago
  • Anything I don't believe in is absolutely wrong anything I do believe in is absolutely right and there's no evidence to support either.

    luno
    3 months ago
  • LV thinks Rick Santorum Says Gay Marriage Is Li... is WTF & Fail  about 3 months ago
  • EmmaLead thinks Rick Santorum Says Gay Marriage Is Li... is Trashy & Fail  about 3 months ago
  • bradb6 thinks Rick Santorum Says Gay Marriage Is Li... is Fail  about 3 months ago
  • j9mg thinks Rick Santorum Says Gay Marriage Is Li... is WTF  about 3 months ago
  • nomejuzgues thinks Rick Santorum Says Gay Marriage Is Li... is WTF, Fail & OMG  about 3 months ago
  • Emily R. thinks Rick Santorum Says Gay Marriage Is Li... is Trashy  about 3 months ago
  • PurpleStuff   Rick Santorum Says Gay Marriage Is Li... and thinks it’s Trashy, WTF & Fail  about 3 months ago
  • stolid thinks Rick Santorum Says Gay Marriage Is Li... is Fail  about 3 months ago
  • I feel like Santorum is just a sexy nominee to the far right, fringe Republicans and evangelicals. (Read as: The Tea Party) He is so far right, I don't know how any self-respecting moderate or independent could stomach voting for him.

    BlueSerenade
    3 months ago
  • It's like the republicans just don't want to win. Somebody on that side has to know that this is assbackwards talk that sets civilization back a century right? HOW DOES THIS EXIST?!?

    Aaron C.
    3 months ago
  • This man is the Strom Thurmond of our time. I am suspicious of any person this obsessed with what homosexuals do with their lives. I can't wait for news of his gay sex scandal to come out.

    nonatitania
    3 months ago
  • Good thing for Santorum that facts don't matter to Republicans.

    deaddrift
    3 months ago
  • He is so fucking ignorant. I hate people who are uneducated and so damn close minded. His followers must be weak minded idiots to buy this bullshit.

    ashleyo6
    3 months ago
  • WHY IS NOBODY CALLING HIM ON THIS MOTHERFUCKING BULLSHIT?!?!

    MK03
    3 months ago
  • I would just laugh this off - his complete insanity - but people parrot this shit everywhere they go. I constantly hear people spread lies about homosexuals, and it starts with their disgusting, bigot poster-boys like Santorum.

    Diana
    3 months ago
  • Ok, all Santorum puns aside. This is serious. How fucked up is our country right now, that someone like Santorum is an actual possibility. This is sad and frightening. The fact that he has followers that aren't family members is really appalling.

    Ignatius O'Toole
    3 months ago
  • sexual abuse of kids highest in catholic churches and so is covering up that abuse and knowingly allowing it to continue unabated. please keep lecturing us on morality though. but i know the easy and obvious solution to this moral decay: start each day with a prayer and post the 10 commandments on the wall. that should solve it.

    wwew
    3 months ago
  • “Marriage has remained the same for centuries” It was just a few years ago that a black and a white person couldn't marry, Mr Santorum. Marriage is evolving for the better. Just let people be happy.

    miked00d
    3 months ago
  • JERK

    Mom
    3 months ago
  • Once again the special mixture of froth Santorum discharges from his obicularis oris is the kind of outpouring we've come to expect from him.

    Freelance Spy
    3 months ago

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