Rick Santorum, who has previously equated homosexuality with child molestation and bestiality, has discovered an even worse comparison for homosexuality. According to the former Pennsylvania senator and Republican presidential hopeful, homosexuality is worse than killing a child.
Rick Santorum really does believe that abortion is killing a child. He said so while campaigning, he said so on the Senate floor, and he said so in interviews: "You can say it is not human life. I can say this piece of paper is not a piece of paper, but that does not make it what it is not. It is human, and it is alive." In that vein, he has fought for years to illegalize and criminalize abortion as murder and a destroyer of the American family.
There are other liberal notions that Santorum similarly believes weaken the American family and that he thus seeks to illegalize, such as gay marriage. Speaking at the Family Policy Institute of Washington, Santorum argued that marriage equality (an important issue in Washington, where gay marriage was first celebrated this past December) was destroying the American family. He asserted that gay marriage is currently, at this very moment, destroying the American family: "Because if we do not win this issue of marriage, not only will the family disintegrate, it is disintegrating."
That point, though, was not the only point he made about marriage equality that night.
Mr. Santorum said, "The movement that you are fighting is the most important cultural movement — I am a pro-life warrior. I'll match up my credentials with anybody — is the most important movement to win." No one should be surprised that former Senator Santorum opposes gay marriage. He has previously related homosexuality to bestiality, he has said that if he were president he would invalidate homosexual unions, and that homosexuals do not deserve the "privilege" of marriage. Many, though, would probably be surprised that he thinks homosexual marriage is worse than abortion.
These issues are certainly highly contested and emotionally charged issues for many. Obviously these issues are complicated by general disagreement about religion, sin, and when life begins. Within the Santorum reference frame, though, it does not seem like the comparison should be that difficult. One would think that the vast majority of the population would consider murder, particularly the murder of a child, a heinous crime — certainly a worse crime than two people of the same gender professing love and faithfulness to each other and having that bond generally recognized.
Santorum, though, does not agree with this position. Rick Santorum, father of seven, would rather fight marriage equality than save the children he believes abortion is killing. Even the anti-gay marriage lobby should be appalled.
http://www.policymic.com/articles/16421/rick-santorum-cpac-gay-marriage-is-worse-than-child-murder
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