But, yeah, Rick likes gays, too.
Gee, he's got a funny way of showing it:
- Voting to prohibit same-sex marriage:
(Bill HR 3396 ; vote number 1996-280 on Sep 10, 1996)- Opposing prohibition of job discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation - a wonderful gesture to all those gays who worked for him that he 'stood up for':
(Employment Non-Discrimination Act; Bill S. 2056 ; vote number 1996-281 on Sep 10, 1996)- Opposing expanding hate crime legislation to include sexual orientation:
(Bill S.2549 ; vote number 2000-136 on Jun 20, 2000)- Supporting a constitutional ban on same-sex marriage:
(Marriage Protection Amendment; Bill S. J. Res. 1 ; vote number 2006-163 on Jun 7, 2006)- Equating same-sex marriage to 9/11:
“This is an issue just like 9-11, we didn't decide we wanted to fight the war on terrorism because we wanted to. It was brought to us. And if not now, when? When the supreme courts in all the other states have succumbed to the Massachusetts version of the law?"- Lying (or at least being profoundly ignorant) about homosexual coupling in history:
"In every society, the definition of marriage has not ever to my knowledge included homosexuality" (For the record, dozens of civilizations throughout history, from Ancient Rome to Medieval Europe, to Mughal India, to modern Europe and the U.S. have embraced same-sex relationships and accorded them full matrimonial rights)
- And let's not forget his asinine statements equating homosexual acts to bigamy, incest, etc.:
"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" (I am aware he's commenting on the case itself, but he
chose to phrase his criticism that way, and only that way, when given the chance)
Rick Santorum may have a passing toleration of gays who work for him (not exactly an unbiased source, by the way) and, Phil, you may have seen another side to him. But those things don't hold up under the withering reality of Santorum's record. His position on homosexuality with be remembered as one of clueless bigotry which contributed, in part, to his well-deserved electoral humiliation in 2006.
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