10 Completely Vile Things Rick Santorum Has Said
Former Republican senator and known right-wing extremist Rick Santorum is officially running for president again, and this time around he’s trying to be a voice for America’s “working families.” That might sound downright wholesome to someone who doesn’t know what he actually believes. Here are some of the White House hopeful’s most revealing comments from over the years:
1. On same-sex marriage, 2004: “This is an issue just like 9/11. We didn’t decide we wanted to fight the war on terrorism because we wanted to. It was brought to us. And if not now, when? When the supreme courts in all the other states have succumbed to the Massachusetts version of the law?”
2. On sex between gay people, 2003: “If the Supreme Court says that you have the right to consensual 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.”
3. On birth control and having sex for pleasure, 2011: “One of the things I will talk about that no president has talked about before is I think the dangers of contraception in this country, the whole sexual libertine idea. Many in the Christian faith have said, ‘Well, that’s OK. Contraception’s OK.’
It’s not OK because it’s a license to do things in the sexual realm that is counter to how things are supposed to be. They’re supposed to be within marriage, they are supposed to be for purposes that are, yes, conjugal, but. . .also procreative. That’s the perfect way that a sexual union should happen. We take any part of that out, we diminish the act. And if you can take one part out that’s not for purposes of procreation, that’s not one of the reasons, then you diminish this very special bond between men and women, so why can’t you take other parts of that out? And all of a sudden, it becomes deconstructed to the point where it’s simply pleasure. . .This is special, and it needs to be seen as special.”
4. On how abortion is harming Social Security, 2011: “The social security system in my opinion is a flawed design, period. But, having said that, the design would work a lot better if we had stable demographic trends. . . .The reason social security is in big trouble is we don’t have enough workers to support the retirees. Well, a third of all the young people in America are not in America today because of abortion, because one in three pregnancies end in abortion.”
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