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By David Edwards
Friday, February 10, 2012 11:31 EST
Former Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee on Friday said that President Barack Obama had turned evangelicals into Catholics by requiring private health insurance plans to cover contraception for women.
Speaking at the Conservative Political Action Conference, Huckabee gave “a great big thank you to President Obama.”
“You have done more than any person in the entire GOP field, any candidate has done to bring this party to unity and energize this party as a result of your attack on religious liberty and the attack on the personhood of every human being in America,” the former Arkansas governor declared.
“The fact that Catholic hospitals– and not just Catholic hospitals, but any hospital, any organization — would be required to provide not just contraceptive services, but Plan B abortion pills and other services that are outside the conscience of people of faith is, in fact, a direct violation of the First Amendment,” Huckabee, who is an ordained Southern Baptist minister, insisted.
“I remember very vividly when John F. Kennedy said that we are all Berliners. Well, in many ways, thanks to President Obama, we are all Catholics now.”
He added: “Growing up a Baptist in the South, I never thought I’d see the day when I would stand in front of several thousand people and say, ‘We’re all Catholic!’ Praise the Lord, pass the offering plate. It’s time to get serious.”
Reports on Friday said the Obama administration would move to accommodate Catholics in a way that would make still contraception available to all women.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/02/10/huckabee-tells-cpac-we-are-all-catholics-now/
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"They folks just can't figure out who they will Pander to day to day!!!"By David Edwards
Friday, February 10, 2012 11:31 EST
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Thursday, February 9, 2012 10:37 EST
Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum warned on Wednesday that President Barack Obama and other liberals are leading people of faith down a path that ends at the guillotine.
During a campaign event in Plano, Texas, the candidate charged Obama had an “overt hostility to faith.”
“When you look and see what the left is trying to do in America today, progressives are trying to shutter faith, privatize it, push it out of the public square, oppress people of faith, strip their charitable deductions away from them, trying to weaken them, churches — trying to say that anyone who believes in the value of Judeo-Christian principles,” Santorum explained.
“As we saw in the Ninth Circuit just this week, that if you believe that [same sex marriage is wrong] — this is what the court said — that if believe that, if believe what’s taught in Genesis, if you believe what’s practiced Biblically and a generation since then you are irrational. The only possible reason you could believe this, according to the Ninth Circuit, is that you are a bigot and that you are a hater.”
He continued: “They are taking faith and crushing it. Why? When you marginalize faith in America, when you remove the pillar of God-given rights then what’s left is the French Revolution. What’s left is a government that gives you rights. What’s left are no unalienable rights. What’s left is a government that will tell you who you are, what you’ll do and when you’ll do it. What’s left in France became the the guillotine.”
Santorum admitted that the U.S. was “a long way from that,” but if Obama had his way then “we are headed down that road,” citing the Obama administration’s decision to require nearly all private health insurance policies to cover family planning, including female contraceptives.
“Now is the time for America to rise up and say enough!” the GOP hopeful exclaimed.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/02/09/santorum-obama-leading-christians-to-the-guillotine/
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"Why is this Guy always claiming that the other side is doing what his Party is Guilty Of???"By David Edwards
Thursday, February 9, 2012 10:37 EST
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By David Edwards
Monday, February 6, 2012 14:24 EST
Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum on Monday asserted that former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney was “uniquely unqualified” for the GOP nomination because of the similarities between health care laws in Massachusetts and President Barack Obama’s health care reforms, including the repeatedly debunked claim that “death panels” would ration care to seniors.
Speaking at a ballroom across the street from the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, Santorum pointed to a report (PDF) from the the non-partisan organization Families USA that found at least 15 major similarities between Obama’s Affordable Care Act and the reforms Romney enacted in Massachusetts.
“Both create government panels to dictate quality and cost containment,” Santorum explained. “Some of you may be familiar with the Independent Payment Advisory Board — which is a board separate from Congress, independent of Congress — that President Obama created to control health care costs. How? By cutting reimbursements to doctors and hospitals under the Medicare program. Well, Gov. Romney has a similar program called the Council on Health Quality and Costs.”
“Some people refer to these types of boards as death panels,” he added. “Why? Because they ultimately decide to ration care to those procedures and people because they don’t believe these procedures are effective in providing care, that the utilization isn’t worth the costs.”
“So, again, you have government making decisions and rationing and apportioning care based on research that shows what outcomes are dictated by the research that’s out there.”
In 2009, Politifact named “death panels,” a term thought to have been first used by former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R), as their “Lie of the Year.”
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/02/06/santorum-romney-and-obama-both-created-death-panels/
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By David Edwards
Friday, February 3, 2012 9:06 EST
A day after insisting that the media had taken his comments about not being concerned for the poor out of context, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney shifted positions on Thursday, claiming he simply “misspoke.”
On Monday, Romney had told CNN’s Soledad O’Brien that he wasn’t running for president to help the most impoverished Americans.
“I’m not concerned about the very poor, we have a safety net there, if we need to repair, I’ll fix it,” he said. “The challenge right now — we will hear from the Democrat party the plight of the poor. And there’s no question it’s not good being poor. And we have a safety net to help those that are very poor, but my campaign is focused is on middle-income Americans.”
A day later aboard his campaign charter plane, the candidate blamed reporters for not putting his comment in context.
“No, no, no, no,” the former Massachusetts governor said. “You’ve got to take the whole sentence, all right, as opposed to saying, and then change it just a little bit, because then it sounds very different. I’ve said throughout the campaign my focus, my concern, my energy is gonna be devoted to helping middle income people, all right?”
Speaking to KSNV’s John Ralston later that afternoon, Romney finally began to take responsibility for his remarks.
“John, it was a misstatement,” the candidate asserted. “I misspoke.”
“I’ve said something that is similar to that but quite acceptable for a long time. And you know when you do I don’t know how many thousands of interviews, now and then you may get it wrong. And I misspoke, plain and simple.”
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/02/03/romney-i-misspoke-about-the-poor/
Watch this video from KSNV, Face to Face, broadcast Feb. 2, 2012.
"Please Define Middle Income, many folks do not get Married because they have to pay Higher Taxes, and speaking of marriage, why are you against Same Sex Marriage???"By David Edwards
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By David Edwards
Thursday, February 2, 2012 13:36 EST
President Barack Obama proved on Thursday that conservatives don’t have a monopoly on using religion to advocate for specific public policies.
Speaking to a group of mostly-conservative politicians at the annual National Prayer Breakfast, the president quoted scripture in a effort to get Republicans to support a fairer tax code and caring for the poor.
“When I talk about our financial institutions playing by the same rules as folks on main street, when I talk about making sure insurance companies aren’t discriminating against those who are already sick or making sure that unscrupulous lenders aren’t taking advantage of the most vulnerable among us, I do so because I genuinely believe it will make the economy stronger for everybody,” Obama explained. “But I also do it because I know far too many neighbors in our country have been hurt and treated unfairly over the last few years. And I believe in God’s command to love thy neighbor as thyself.”
“And when I talk about shared responsibility, it’s because I genuinely believe at a time when folks are struggling, at a time when we have enormous deficits, it’s hard for me to ask seniors on a fixed income or young people with student loans or middle class families who can barely pay the bills to shoulder the burden alone. And I think to myself, if I am willing to give something up as someone who has been extraordinarily blessed, give up some of the tax breaks that I enjoy — I actually think that’s going to make economic sense.”
He added: “But for me as a Christian, it also coincides with Jesus’s teaching that for unto whom much is given, much shall be required.”
“Treating others as you want to be treated, requiring much from those who have been given so much, living by the principle that we are our brother’s keeper, caring for the poor and those in need, these values are old and they can be found in many denominations and many faiths and among many believers and among many non-believers. They’re values that have always made this country great when we live up to them, when we just don’t just give lip service to them, and we just don’t talk about them one day a year.”
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/02/02/obama-gets-biblical-on-republican-tax-critics/
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"Excellent job BO, beat the Bastard Bible Thumpers with their own Bible, BRAVO!!!!"By David Edwards
Thursday, February 2, 2012 13:36 EST
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By David Edwards
Wednesday, January 25, 2012 14:51 EST
Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum on Wednesday suggested that President Barack Obama wanted to every kid to go to college so they could be brainwashed into being a liberal.
Speaking to a crowd of Floridians at the First Baptist Church of Naples, Santorum said that churches and families were under “assault” by the president and liberals.
“We’ve lost, unfortunately, our entertainment industry,” the candidate explained. “We’ve lost our higher education. That was the first to go a long time ago. It’s no wonder President Obama wants every kid to go to college. The indoctrination that occurs at American universities is one of the keys to the left holding and maintaining power in America — and it is indoctrination.”
“If they taught Judeo-Christian ideology, they would be stripped of every dollar. If they teach radical secular ideology, they get all the government support that they can possibly get. As you know, 62 percent of children who enter college with a faith conviction leave without it. And I bet you there are people in this room who give money to colleges and universities who are undermining the very principles of our country every single day by indoctrinating kids in left-wing ideology. And you continue to give to these colleges and universities. Let me have a suggestion: Stop it!”
Santorum added: “What they say is, look, their values trump your religious values. The government can tell you they’re going to starve you by taking money away, by taking out the charitable deductions. They’re going to weaken you by passing statutes to change the institution of marriage, which will ultimately make what is preached here hate speech and bigotry.”
Last month, the former Pennsylvania senator warned voters in Iowa that colleges and universities had become “indoctrination centers for the left.”
For his part, President Barack Obama spoke about the importance of college affordability during his annual State of the Union address on Tuesday.
“We can’t just keep subsidizing skyrocketing tuition; we’ll run out of money,” he said. “So let me put colleges and universities on notice: If you can’t stop tuition from going up, the funding you get from taxpayers will go down.”
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/?p=380324
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"Hate speech and Bigotry??? He is talking about his own Damned Party!!!!"By David Edwards
Wednesday, January 25, 2012 14:51 EST
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By David Edwards
Sunday, January 15, 2012
The founder of a movement to increase racial diversity within the Republican Party told a crowd of tea party supporters on Sunday that they weren’t racists because “the Democratic Party is the party of the KKK.”
Speaking at the first ever South Carolina Tea Party Convention, Raging Elephants leader Apostle Claver explained that Republicans would need to attract black and Latino voters if they intended to win elections in the future.
“Look around,” Claver told the mostly-white crowd. “Y’all hear me? Turn around and take a look. Where’s our black brothers and sisters? Where’s our Hispanic and Latino brothers and sisters? Our Asian brothers and sisters?”
“Now here’s the good news,” he continued. “Them folks, them blacks and Hispanics, they’re just as conservative as you are. … But the point is, we’re they’re friends, not the Democrats.”
“And we need to have the courage to go into their neighborhoods and tell them the truth about the party of Jim Crow, the party of the KKK, the party of Dred Scott, the party of segregation. The Democrats are the ones who are the racists, not you! Through their policies, their liberal policies, it’s the Democratic Party that has done damage to the black community; decimated their family; miseducated their children; devoured, destroyed their economic base.”
Claver added: “They want to say your are the racist. No. No. If anybody is a racist, it’s [Texas Congresswoman] Shiela Jackson Lee! If anybody is a racist, it’s [Democratic Congressman] John Conyers! If anybody is a racist, it’s [South Carolina Congressman] James Clyburn! If anybody is a racist, it’s Jesse ‘castration’ Jackson! If anybody is a racist, it’s Al ‘shakedown’ Sharpton! They’re the racists! We’re their friends!”
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/01/15/conservative-leader-democratic-party-is-party-of-the-kkk/
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"Let us Bless the Lord Jesus???"By David Edwards
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By David Edwards
Sunday, February 5, 2012 12:31 EST
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney on Saturday accused President Barack Obama of trying to “bribe the voters” with benefits and “checks from government.”
During his victory speech following the Nevada caucuses, the candidate told a crowd of supporters that voters shouldn’t expect a “free ticket” when he is president.
“I will not attempt to bribe the voters with promises of new programs and new subsidies and ever-increasing checks from government,” Romney declared. “If this election is a bidding war for who can promise the most benefits then I’m not your president. You have that president today.”
“I’m asking each of you to remember how special it is to be an American. I want you to remember why it was that you or your ancestors, who sacrificed to come to America and to overcome the challenges of life in a new country, why they came here. It was not for a free ticket; it was for freedom.”
Last week, the former Massachusetts governor claimed he had misspoken when he said that he was “not concerned about the very poor.”
“We have a safety net there,” he had told CNN’s Soledad O’Brien. “If it needs repair, I’ll fix it.”
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/02/05/romney-obama-trying-to-bribe-the-voters-with-benefits/
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'Sheeesh, all his talk about America and being an American, and he ends with 'God Bless this Great Land????'By David Edwards
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When the Republican Caucus cloistered at Dracula’s castle in Transylvania after the 2010 elections, they decided the utter ruination of the American economy would be just the thing to ensure this Kenyan pretender would not be reelected.
Therefore, the Republican reaction to the better-than-expected job news Friday and the fact that unemployment had dropped for the 5th month in a row was hardly an occasion for celebration. Let’s sample some GOP reaction.
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Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney is under attack from all sides, by liberals and conservatives alike, for what he said the day after the Florida GOP Primary.
In case your television has been broken, you haven’t glanced at a newspaper, turned on a radio, or seen a skywriter in the past 24 hours, here is what Mitt Romney said. We will examine the comment in the most positive light.
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Fox News Pounding The War Drums Today Against Iran, Eerily Familiar
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By David Edwards
Friday, January 27, 2012 10:41 EST
Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul wants to abolish all income taxes — but he says he’ll have to completely destroy the “welfare system” to do it.
During CNN’s Republican debate in Florida on Thursday, moderator Wolf Blitzer asked Paul if he agreed with the tax policies that former President Ronald Reagan put in place.
“He taxed too much,” Paul replied. “My goal is to get rid of the 16th Amendment and the only way you can do that is not run a welfare system and a warfare system.”
“I do want to address the subject about taxing the rich. That is not a solution. But I understand and really empathize with the people who talk about the 99 and the 1 because there is a characteristic about what happens when you destroy a currency. There is a transfer of wealth from the middle class to the wealthy, and this has been going on for 40 years.”
The Texas congressman added: “So the middle class is shrinking and their losing their jobs and their losing their houses, but Wall Street isn’t getting poorer. And they are the ones who are getting the bailout. So we have to address the bailout and the system that favors a certain group over another group. If you don’t have sound money and you have a welfare state, no matter whether the welfare state is designed to help the poor, you know, the welfare system helps the wealthy.”
Speaking to conservative Wisconsin radio host Jan Mickelson last August about pro-union protests in that state, Paul explained that “[e]ntitlements are not rights.”
“And this is where I’m very encouraged, because I think a lot of young people are recognizing this and they can’t depend on the government,” he said. “And some of the people on the left are actually realizing this, some get very angry, but a lot of them now are looking at our views more closely, especially when we can prove that the welfare system bail out the rich and stick it to the poor. And you look at the housing, I use that example, they bailed out the rich and the bankers and Wall Street, and at the same time the people lost their jobs and lost their homes.”
“So the welfare system doesn’t work and in truth, pure democracy is very dangerous.”
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/01/27/ron-paul-the-welfare-system-helps-the-wealthy/
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“So the welfare system doesn’t work and in truth, pure democracy is very dangerous.”
"Hmmm, What an Odd thing to say!!!"By David Edwards
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Thursday, January 26, 2012 22:43 EST
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney says he doesn’t coordinate with the super PACs that support him, but apparently he doesn’t coordinate with himself either.
During the CNN-hosted debate in Florida on Thursday, the former Massachusetts governor couldn’t remember an ad attacking Newt Gingrich, even though he approved it and his campaign paid for it.
“You’ve had an ad running that says Speaker Gingrich calls Spanish the language of the ghetto,” CNN moderator Wolf Blitzer told Romney.
“I haven’t seen the ad,” Romney replied. “I’m sorry I don’t get to see all the TV ads. I don’t know. Did he say that?”
“No,” Gingrich objected. “I said we want everybody to learn English; I didn’t use the word Spanish. … So I would say that as much as Gov. Romney doesn’t particularly like my use of language, I found his deliberate distortion equally offensive.”
“I doubt that’s my ad,” Romney insisted. “But we’ll take a look and find out. There are a bunch of ads out there that are being organized by other people.”
In fact, Blitzer did return to the subject after a few other questions.
“We just double-checked and it was one of your ads,” Blitzer explained. “It’s running here in Florida on the radio, and at the end you say, ‘I’m Mitt Romney and I approved this ad.’”
While Romney had the support of the Republican audience for a large part of the night, that tidbit of information was met with groans and boos.
“Let me ask the Speaker a question,” Romney spoke up, trying to salvage the moment. “Did you say what the ad says or not? I don’t know.”
“It’s totally out of context,” Gingrich said.
“Oh, OK, he said it,” Romney interrupted. “Let’s take a look at what he said.”
In a 2007 speech, Gingrich did say that bilingual education should be replaced “with immersion in English so people learn the common language of the country and they learn the language of prosperity, not the language of living in a ghetto,” according to a fact check from The Washington Post.
Gingrich had not specifically used the word “Spanish,” but it was widely perceived to be aimed at Spanish speakers. The Georgia Republican eventually apologized for creating “a bad feeling within the Latino community.”
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/01/26/romney-forgets-attack-that-he-approved/
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"The Language of the Ghetto Eh'???"By David Edwards
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Tuesday, January 17, 2012
Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul doesn’t want to abolish the Department of Transportation, but he said on Tuesday that the agency really only needed “one guy and a computer.”
During a town hall event in Spartanburg, South Carolina, the Texas congressman made the case for “user fees” for national parks and the federal highway system.
“Ideally, you can come up with all sorts of schemes about private highways and all, but that’s not going to happen,” Paul explained. “But we do have a user fee with our gasoline tax. Trouble is, they take that money then they spend it on something else.”
“If you had a user fee for our highway, what you could do is have one person in the office. Oh, we got umpteen billions of dollars in gasoline tax and all they have to do is divide up the people in each state or, you know, the size of the state and send the money back.”
He added: “And you could do that with one guy and a computer. But instead, we have a Department of Transportation, probably has tens of thousands of people, you know, playing politics with it all.”
Paul has said that he wants to abolish at least five federal agencies, a list that does not include the Department of Transportation.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/01/17/ron-paul-dept-of-transportation-only-needs-one-guy-and-a-computer/
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Tuesday, January 17, 2012
In the Republican political race, there’s only two top dogs: former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and someone else. Former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum desperately wants to be that someone else, and he’s pulling out all the stops to transform into the Republicans’ anti-Romney candidate of choice.
Appearing at a media briefing on Tuesday morning after a bruising debate, Santorum claimed that Romney “deliberately lies” and stands “behind those lies” in order to gain the advantage on his opponents.
He seemed utterly flabbergasted that a Romney-supporting super PAC would release an ad that claims he supports voting rights for convicted felons — something Santorum and Romney squared off about during Monday’s debate.
“And he says that’s accurate?” Santorum asked. “That is… I… I… I’m stunned. I’m actually stunned, that he would… he would… that is, that is… I’m stunned. That Mitt Romney doesn’t have the ability to be able to discern something that is blatantly false, and then blatantly gives a false impression that he believes that’s accurate. Again, this is a character issue. He’s playing dirty, dishonest politics.”
He went on to add: “We don’t need someone who supports lies and promotes lies and stands behind those lies in order to get elected president. We need someone who’s going to tell the truth to the American public, not someone who’s going to deliberately lie and stand behind those lies to get elected.”
Santorum predicted that once the field narrows to just one non-Romney candidate, “there’s going to be very different election outcomes.”
Recent polling has found Santorum lagging far behind Romney and tying with Texas Rep. Ron Paul at 16 percent. Romney was leading the Republican field with 32 percent support among South Carolina voters, a Reuters/Ipsos survey found.
The crucial South Carolina Republican primary is on Jan. 21, followed by Florida on Jan. 31. Both contests are seen as make-or-break for Romney’s rivals.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/01/17/santorum-goes-nuclear-romney-deliberately-lies-to-win/
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"For some reason he seems to forget: Your Whole Damned Party is nothing but Liars!!!!"By Stephen C. Webster
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Monday, January 16, 2012
Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum’s wife, Karen, on Monday accused the gay community of vilifying her husband.
At an event with mothers in South Carolina, a woman, who said her son was gay, told the candidate that she felt guilty for supporting him due to his opposition to gay rights.
“I still have that sense of guilt because his friends react to what they hear,” the woman explained. “Help me. How do I deal with that?”
Karen Santorum spoke up in defense of her husband.
“As Rick’s wife, I have known him and loved him for 23 years,” she said. “I think it’s very sad what the gay activists have done out there. They vilify him. It is so wrong. He loves them. What he has simply said is marriage shouldn’t happen.”
“As far as hating, it’s very unfortunate that has happened,” Karen Santorum added. “A lot of it is backyard bullying, where people will come up to us and they’ll say something. And we’ll ask them to give us an example, and they can’t even provide one example as to why they took the position they took.”
After Santorum compared homosexuality to “man on child, man on dog, or whatever the case may be” in an interview with The Associated Press in 2003, gay activist Dan Savage created a website redefining the former Pennsylvania senator’s last name as “the frothy mixture of lube and fecal matter that is sometimes the by-product of anal sex.”
For years, Google has returned Savage’s website as the top search result for “Santorum.”
“The Internet allows for this type of vulgarity to circulate,” the candidate complained to Roll Call last year. “It’s unfortunate that we have someone who obviously has some issues. But he has an opportunity to speak.”
Speaking to CafeMom’s “Moms Matter 2012″ on Monday, Santorum said he was “doing what I’m called to do, which is to love everyone and accept everybody.”
“This is a public policy difference,” he said. “And I think the problem is that some see that public policy difference as a personal assault, that because I believe that marriage, which has existed before governments existed — marriage existed from the very beginning of time — it’s the way we were meant to be.”
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/01/16/karen-santorum-gays-vilify-my-husband/
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