Santorum: LGBT equality ‘waters down marriage’

Beware of this bigot! Rick Santourm a hater; first it starts with gay people and then womens right's which 'we' have all seen with birth controll and then minorities and finnaly the poor and the midle class! Give a bigot an inch and Rick Samtourm will take miles! Rick Samtourm has even said he would put our country back to war!

Everyone loves 'Rick Santourm' for President. Why so more gay people can live with injustice as I do? Rick Santourm for President a far right wing bigoted man that America just doesn't need!!!

I thought divorce watered down marriage? But what do I know, I live in a country where the majority of people get divorced and gay marriage isn't even legal.

Santorum's bigoted and prejudicial beliefs defy reason, but as anyone that knows a bigot can tell you, there is no reasoning with a bigot.

Anyone this narrow minded should not hold any office.

Marriage....

it's cats and dogs!

I was married 42 years before my husband passed away. We never felt anyone watered down our marriage. Our marriage vows were made to each and to nobody else. I'm more worried about the people that are quick to marry and then quick to divorce making a sham of marriage.

I read a great book some years ago: "Same-Sex Unions In Premodern Europe" by Harvard Professor John Boswell. In it he thoroughly documents that until the First Millennium A.D. Christian churches did not perform weddings between men and women. Marriage was considered strictly a civil union to be conducted by local government for the first thousand years of Christianity.
However, Boswell uncovered scores of "Sacred Unions" between men (usually monks or saints) performed in Christian churches -- Catholic and Eastern Orthodox.
Interesting read is you care about real history.

Santorum is a slug that is oozing his way into the political scene through pandering to hot button issues with evangelicals and right wing fundamental christians.

This so called bulwark of society has been the cause of so much suffering and alienation at every level of society. People kill themselves for not meeting up to the expectations of this institution and the associated compulsory heterosexuality.

Gee, the libs must think Santorum must be a threat to the King. He seems to be squarely in their sights.
After posting here for some time and reading how libs "think" I don't even read crap like this. Obummer cannot run on his accomplishments, he has none. He is a lying, incompetent failure unfit for his position. Libs must do all in their power to discredit anyone who is an electorial threat to the King (king - sorry he doesn't rate a capital K). They did it with Cain, Gingrich, Palin, Bachman etc., etc. Their tactics are deplorable but do seem to have traction, especially with the small minded.
We need to replace Obummer in November to try and fix the disaster he has put this country in. Double the debt, criminal Justice Department, knocking over Border Patrol Agents to facilitate their war on the Second Amendment, bailing out their banking buddies, making beaucoup stupid investment decisions (the fed gov has no right making investment decisions) in more and more bankrupt "green" companies, conducting class warfare designed to divide the country and polarize the electorate, controlling our lives through more and more regulations. The problem is I think the king will prevail in November. There are enough guillable and stupid people to vote for this idiot- again. In fact, it is so necessary that he gets run out of town on a rail that I don't care what is printed here to denigrate his opposition. I believe that the left will go to any lengths regardless of morality, legality or truth, to keep the king in the White House. He is dangerous and needs to go but as long as he can buy enough votes, and he is trying to do just that, he will win. If he does, this country is so screwed.
Anyone but the king in November.

It is nice that Mr. Santorum likes to make promises to bigots but who cares? He is never going to be President and he will never be able to do anything to stop Same Gender Marriage.

Santorum makes me ill. Everything he stands for is the opposite of what I believe. A war on contraception and abortion is an attack on Women's rights. Is he planning on feeding the billions of babies that would be unwanted if anyone let his backward ideology take hold anywhere? I guess he believes women belong barefoot and pregnant in the kitchen like his wife.

That Santorum must have to lube up something fierce in order to continually force his way against the tide of history the way he does...

LBGT equality does not water down marriage.... Arguably "gay-marriage" does... And there is a difference between equal rights, and a cultural invasion of sorts.

I 100% agree, homosexual couples deserve, in the context of committed relationships, all the rights as heterosexual married couples, from insurance, to tax-breaks, on down the list... But then I'd have to think that non sexually involved couples that choose to coexist in the same household because they prefer each others company/partnership in getting through life to a marriage of any sort, should have that right too... You should be able to have all the same rights as a sexually involved partnership if you're committed to having a world built with whomever that person may be, and are sharing a home.

As far as my "cultural invasion" statement... It isn't even arguable, a LARGE percentage of homosexuals certainly aren't born they're conditioned by sexual abuse, one coach Sandusky comes to mind. And sometimes it's societal factors...

A healthy percentage of "gay" or "bi" people get done being a whore, and decide to settle on a monogamous heterosexual committed relationship that often ends in marriage... I know I have a relative, and have known a few "gay' or "bi" people that have done just that.

So there is a little bit of an issue, especially with the percentages of STD's in certain subcultures, and the fact that not everyone who identifies as "gay" was born that way. That's why people who won't argue the point of rights, and don't seek to take anyones rights away, will argue on terminology...

I don't want to raise a heterosexual child, that feels naturally attracted to the opposite sex, to become confused and drawn in to a homosexual subculture, just to later determine, "Gee I wasn't really gay I was just rebelling...."

That shit has happened.... allot......

And that is at least a portion of the argument of using the terminology "marriage" in a homosexual context.

(Not a defense of Santorum though)

If a marriage is strong, why would the marriage of ANYBODY else have any negative effect on it? Why would love between any two people water down your marriage? I find it sick that supposedly "moral" men or women would spend so much time thinking about what others do in their bedrooms - what are they thinking about? This rightness they spew has nothing to do with what is right.

I think somebody needs to water down whatever this guy is drinking.

but Really how do people like him even get into office?

AHA HA HA HA HA He went to collage and all he learnt was to be ignorant , one sided and blind to the rights of others. AHA HA HA HA Thats funny.

Satantorum has water on the brain.

Wonder if he sees gay clowns in his sleep...:)

This guy is seriously insecure.

That's right Rick, get out the hangman's noose and threaten anyone who decides to end their marriage regardless of the reason. Open your eyes slick Rick, Gay people don't ruin straight marriages, STRAIGHT people do.