Potential Presidential candidate Rick Santorum (R) appeared on the FAMILY Leader yesterday, championing the virtues of heterosexual parents while denouncing gay parents. Santorum gives no data to back up his assertion, only his own moral or hazy societal code, such as it is.
Santorum, who is infamous for his opposition to gays, has decided to go full homophobe (again). Santorum (do Google ‘sexual neologism’) in the past has made his position clear.
During an interview with the Associated Press in 2003, Santorum stated, “If the Supreme Court says that you have the right to consensual (gay) 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.” Santorum further stated that he believed consenting adults do not have a Constitutional right to privacy with respect to sexual acts. Perhaps he prefers they use a public venue.
Santorum’s argument was that children who are raised in a household with heterosexual parents are typically better off.
“Sure single parenthood will get you there most of the time but it just isn’t as good. It just isn’t as good as having a mom and a dad.” Santorum said that parenting was a “privilege” that some people — especially gay people — were not entitled to:
SANTORUM: Can you have good stock, solid family with a single parent? Yes you can…if you were getting on an airplane and you had a choice between two of them and one airplane would get you there 95 percent of the time and the other plane would get you there 85 percent of the time. What plane would you take?
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A lesbian woman came up to me and said, ‘why are you denying me my right?’ I said, ‘well, because it’s not a right.’ It’s a privilege that society recognizes because society sees intrinsic value to that relationship over any other relationship.
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Research suggests otherwise – two loving gay parents are actually better for their kids that children from a single parent family. In fact, there is almost no social science research to back up Santorum’s argument.
However, there is more research than his that suggests, “thou doth protest too much.”
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