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William769

(55,147 posts)
Thu Jan 19, 2012, 11:02 AM Jan 2012

Mrs. Santorum, Can We Talk?

Someone’s been using the extra bit of cash he got from his surge in Iowa to buy some spin doctor advice. Earlier this week, Rick Santorum, his wife, Karen, and their oldest daughter, Elizabeth, were all talking about how much Rick “loves gay people” and that his opposition to our right to marry is a “policy difference.” Karen then added to the obscenity of this utter claptrap by suggesting that gay activists were being “backyard bullies” in our attacks on her husband and his policies.

Karen, we need to talk. And by that, I mean that I need to talk and you need to listen.

You love your husband — I get that. You love your faith — fine by me. But when you pretend that hate is love, that lies are truth, and that victims are oppressors, you have become inane.

Your husband believes that LGBT people cannot be trusted to serve in the military, raise children, form stable relationships or be fully respected under the law. According to you, Rick may love us, but honey, his love is killing us, and we want nothing to do with this abusive relationship. Our community has endured expulsion from family, mass firings, daily epitaphs, assaults, harassment, humiliation, death, and suicides. We know that if your husband becomes president of our country our long suffering will only deepen and magnify.

http://www.advocate.com/Politics/Commentary/An_Open_Letter_to_Karen_Santorum/

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Mrs. Santorum, Can We Talk? (Original Post) William769 Jan 2012 OP
Succinctly put! Sera_Bellum Jan 2012 #1
+1. William769 Jan 2012 #3
This message was self-deleted by its author William769 Jan 2012 #2
k&r RainDog Jan 2012 #4
Stop smearing Santorum!!! Guy Whitey Corngood Jan 2012 #5
mass firings MinervaX Jan 2012 #6
k&r GodlessBiker Jan 2012 #7
k&r HappyMe Jan 2012 #8
Very nice...knr!!! joeybee12 Jan 2012 #9
Tell it! K&R n/t HillWilliam Jan 2012 #10
 

Sera_Bellum

(140 posts)
1. Succinctly put!
Thu Jan 19, 2012, 11:10 AM
Jan 2012

+1

The fundies use of the word "love" means entirely something other than day to day use said by most.

Recall Dubya claiming that ob-gyn doctors wanted to spread their "love" to their women patients. What the hell?

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RainDog

(28,784 posts)
4. k&r
Thu Jan 19, 2012, 11:15 AM
Jan 2012

I feel sorry for her b/c she's married to him - I suppose it's hard for me to believe a woman is so willing to be complicit in her own degradation, not just the LGBT community's, since Santorum is also so filled with hatred toward women as equal human beings as well.

 

MinervaX

(169 posts)
6. mass firings
Thu Jan 19, 2012, 11:19 AM
Jan 2012

When the founder of Cracker Barrel died the other day, I found this out about the company.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cracker_Barrel_Old_Country_Store#Controversies

"Policy toward sexual orientation

In 1991, an intra-company memo called for employees to be dismissed if they did not display "normal heterosexual values". Firings reportedly took place on a store-by-store basis in Georgia and other states, but it is unclear how many employees were terminated under the "normal heterosexual values" policy.[9][27] After ten years of bad press and pressure from stockholders the company finally stopped its policy and stated it would not discriminate based on sexual orientation,[43] after demonstrations by gay rights groups.[44] Later, the company's founder, Dan Evins, stated that the policy had been a mistake.[27] Following proposals by the New York City Employees Retirement System, a major shareholder at the time, in 2002 the company's shareholders voted 58% in favor of adding sexual orientation to the company's nondiscrimination policy.[45][43]"

I've eaten there twice(road trips, no other choice) and it was twice too many.

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