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Anti-gay leaders endorse Santorum: ‘He’s one of us’

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By David Edwards
Tuesday, December 20, 2011

Leaders of an anti-gay conservative Christian organization on Tuesday endorsed Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum ahead the upcoming Iowa caucuses.

The Family Leader CEO Bob Vander Plaats said that while his organization would not endorse a candidate at this time, he could personally Santorum because the former Pennsylvania senator was the “champion for the family” who is the best position to beat President Barack Obama.

Earlier this year, Santorum, Rick Perry and Michele Bachmann all signed The Family Leader’s pledge, agreeing to opposes same sex marriage, oppose Sharia law and ban “all forms of pornography.”

“Everything he brought back to the family,” Vander Plaats said during his endorsement of Santorum Tuesday. “He has been a stalwart and a soldier for the sanctity of human life, and God’s design for the family and one man, one woman marriage.”

“I believe Rick Santorum comes from us,” the conservative leader added. “Just not to us, he comes from us. He’s one of us.”

Chuck Hurley, head of The Family Leader’s Iowa Family Policy Center, who also endorsed Santorum Tuesday, said that his group had gotten death threats from supporters of other GOP candidates.

“I do regret that one erstwhile friend and culture warrior has threatened to — quote — ‘burn Bob’s body, drag it through the street and hang it from a bridge’ — unquote — if Bob doesn’t endorse who that person wants him to endorse,” Hurley explained, refusing to name the supporter or their preferred candidate.

“What sold me on Rick Santorum?” Hurley continued. “He meets and exceeds the biblical qualifications.”

Soon after launching The Family Leader’s pledge in July, Vander Plaats was caught on video praising a joke that used the word “fag” in the punchline.

“You know what my wife says?” an attendee at an event in Audubon asked Vander Plaats. “She says: Iowa, the state where you can’t smoke a fag, but you can marry one.”

“Oh shoot, that’s pretty good,” Vander Plaats replied. “That’s pretty good.”

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Watch this video from CNN, broadcast Dec. 20, 2011.

"If I ever decide to run for any type of office, I want the Haters on My Side, seems to say a lot about a candidate these days, don't Ya' Think???" =(

"Just Kidding, I would never want to be associated with such Narrow Minded individuals!!!"
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23 comments // Anti-gay leaders endorse Santorum: ‘He’s one of us’

  • PatrickEdgar
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      PatrickEdgar  
    • The "gay rights agenda" is the most self centered selfish narrow minded ignorant manipulative "civil rights" cultural movement that has ever existed in modern times. It cannot see past it's own self absorbed issues and has little or no concern about how it may be affecting other people who do not have a sexual issue, not to mention how irreverently disrespectful they are to those that would have an intelligent sensible opposing argument. They just don't want to hear it and they don't care either.

      The truth is that sexuality is an all humans issue. It concerns everyone because our sexuality, human sexuality, is formed, matured, and learned collectively, and culturally. What other people go about society expressing and saying, from our close family members to strangers all around, does very much influence what we will be curious or allow ourselves to try. So the propagation of social homosexuality culturally is audaciously irresponsible. No less than it is irresponsible that we don't provide good sound knowledge of the true sociological psychological reasons for it's occurrence in human civilization. We should be aiming at not just being able to express homosexuality alone, and only settling for installing social acceptance it, rather that should only be the first small, though very important, step from which we must proceed building our self awareness and healing, up and onward, having the freedom as well to be able to say: "I want to understand why it develops, learn to leave it behind or grow out of it", and not be called either a Nazi, a repressed anal individual nor a racist bigot for wanting that much for me or for someone I care for. And my alternative should neither have to be to enclose my self for the rest of my life in some kind of social ghetto because it would be the only place were i could have friends and substantially be my self; assuming they would accept my preferring a girl were the right one for me to show up.

      One has to be thinking really stupidly to believe that our natural anatomical body and mind would intentionally make us so that for some random incomprehensible reason, a number of us would find it life's optimal expression the exercising of our sexuality not with our complimenting opposite, but with our same gender. It is simply insanely absurd to conclude that. Social homosexuality is simply humanity's invention, and an individuals intuitive seeking to compensate something that is going on inside his or her mind, sitting well in the spaces we have created for it throughout history out of ignorance and shear need to settle our discomfort with it. Meaning simply that we have always done so only because we never had a grip on the behavioral patterns in our societies that cause it psychologically to become inflamed beyond a superficial and harmless awareness of it, which would otherwise be naturally expressed by all through some form of culturally unanimously accepted proportional social form.

      There is a wealth of literature and medical understanding of the sociological developmental reasons and mind psychology dynamics of why it occurs in a society. We just don't want to face it. And for that we have condemned millions and several recent generations to not be aware of the alternative: The awakening, liberation, maturing and enoying of their true self.

    • 3 months ago
  • bike10
  • nardo1224
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      nardo1224  
    • If only "real, true" Christians would stand up against people like this I would have a lot more respect for them, However, seeing as how they just fall in line behind any asshole who tattoos the label christian on their forehead., they can all drop dead.

      Any religion that takes away the freedom to think for yourself is a cult. Ask Jim Jones followers, oh that's right, you can't because they are all dead.

      These people claim to be interested in 'FAMILY", however, they don't tell you the family they support are the blond haired, blue, eyed Hitler babies created in a test tube that to them are the perfect specimen.

      Please keep allowing these people to deceive you and one day we may just see a massive cyanide laced "going to meet our maker" group meeting and the world will be a better place for it.

    • 5 months ago
  • HarukoHaruhara
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      HarukoHaruhara  
    • You know something interesting.

      Most liberals don't really care about gays, other than, "hey, leave 'em alone."

      Most conservatives seem to.

      Draw your own conclusions.

    • 5 months ago
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  • littlwarrior
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      littlwarrior  
    • Biblical qualifications? WTF people? I am sorry I just cant stand these people, they are so fucking stupid it makes me want to wrap my fingers round about their necks and squeeze until their beady little eyes pop out of their heads. Judgmental bastards. I just have to keep reminding myself they will be caught with a goat or sheep in their beds soon enough, or a male prostitute really who knows, all when can know is when they are finally busted it will be juicy.

    • 5 months ago
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      KB723  
    • Anti-gay leaders endorse Santorum: ‘He’s one of us’

      “You know what my wife says?” an attendee at an event in Audubon asked Vander Plaats. “She says: Iowa, the state where you can’t smoke a fag, but you can marry one.”

    • 5 months ago
  • KB723
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    • Anti-gay leaders endorse Santorum: ‘He’s one of us’

      "If I ever decide to run for any type of office, I want the Haters on My Side, seems to say a lot about a candidate these days, don't Ya' Think???" =(

      "Just Kidding, I would never want to be associated with such Narrow Minded individuals!!!"

    • 5 months ago
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