Monday, January 2, 2012

Rick Santorum wants to annul all same sex marriages


From Think Progress, the latest from theocratic Roman Catholic Rick Santorum. As part of supporting an anti-marriage equality amendment for the Constitution, this man would annul all our marriages, because he doesn't consider them anything more than friendships. I can't think of anything else to say that expresses my horror at this disgusting proposal and the smug ass who suggests it.
Q: What would you do with same-sex couples who got married? Would you make them get divorced?

SANTORUM: Well, their marriage would be invalid. I think if the constitution says “marriage is this,” then people whose marriage is not consistent with the constitution… I’d love to think there’s another way of doing it.

He went on to claim that “same-sex couples can contract for everything” except government benefits and compared the loving marriages of many gay and lesbian couples to having a friend or an aunt.
Even Mitt Romney would grandfather in existing same sex marriages.  

Of course, Santorum has no chance to be president, but like all the Republicans, he's playing a hate-filled card here to appeal to the handful of social conservatives who participate in the Iowa Republican caucuses.   And they love this stuff. Because they consider us less than human, and our relationships less than human.  And it is deeply, deeply hurtful as well as frightening to realize that some of the people next to me in the train or in the market agree with him.

Listen, Rick Santorum: maybe this will make it clear to you.

  


5 comments:

JCF said...

I trust everyone here knows the phrase "Google Santorum"?

You can help keep the ex-Senator's top Google pick as he DESERVES, by clicking (as many times as possible!)

Spreading Santorum (dot) Com

Paul (A.) said...

And it all makes Rick's daughter so very sad.

JCF said...

Rick Santorum, winning (essentially) Iowa tonight, thanking "my best friend, my lifemate" {Aw}

...said the man who wants to forcibly ANNUL IT&BP's marriage.

I don't usually do this, but---

FUCK YOU, Rick Santorum: hard, dry and sideways! >:-(


Off to hit SpreadingSantorum.com about a million times...

IT said...

JCF, i don't think the language of sexual violence is appropriate. And like melissa mcewan at Shakespeare's sister, i dont think Savage's rather puerile Google bomb is the appropriate way to respond to the theocratic bigotry of Rick Santorum. Let's move beyond inchoate anger to use reason and strategy to defeat this ass.

In any event, once straights realize he wants to ban birth control as well as gays marrying, I'm sure they will find him even less appealing.

here's what we should spread widely: Santorum's 10 most outrageous statements

JCF said...

Appropriate? Probably not.

Satisfying? Fun? ;-p

[I DID say I don't usually do this. I was in a "JoeMyGod"-type of mood...]

Yes, when you think rationally, ex-Sen. Santorum possibly hates STRAIGHTS (the feminist and/or contracepting sorts) even more than Teh Gays...