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doxydad

(1,363 posts)
Sat Jun 21, 2014, 06:41 AM Jun 2014

Bat Shit Crazy WATCH: Rick Santorum says gay marriage hurts the economy

Former Pennsylvania senator and Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum attended the March for Marriage in Washington D.C. today and gave an interview with TownHall in which he blamed the current state of the economy on the increasing national acceptance of gay marriage.

Marriage is not, Santorum said, solely about “a romantic relationship between two people.”

“It’s also about,” he added, “a unity of men and women, for the purposes of having and raising children, and giving the child their birthright, which is to be raised by their natural mother and natural father. When we have less of that in America — then society struggles and suffers. Economically, it suffers; socially, it suffers; morally, it suffers — and children are harmed.”

The result of “a decline in marriage and a redefinition of marriage,” he said, is that “you get less marriage. You get families that aren’t as strong, and as a result, society generally, the economy suffers.”

He then defined every family “as an economic unit, and the family breaks apart because we are saying that marriage is not significant…It’s important for us to stand up for what is best for children, what’s best for society, what’s best for the economy, and make that case.”

Watch the entire interview with old 'Frothy' Santorum :

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/06/20/former-senator-rick-santorum-gay-marriage-undermines-family-as-a-viable-economic-unit/

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Bat Shit Crazy WATCH: Rick Santorum says gay marriage hurts the economy (Original Post) doxydad Jun 2014 OP
He's nuts JustAnotherGen Jun 2014 #1
What about all the children that could be adopted by same sex couples? Lady Freedom Returns Jun 2014 #2
I am gong to state the obvious. bradla Jun 2014 #3
Santorum is an idiot Gothmog Jun 2014 #4
What a tool. Can he really be that fucking stupid? Rex Jun 2014 #5

JustAnotherGen

(31,688 posts)
1. He's nuts
Sat Jun 21, 2014, 07:26 AM
Jun 2014

My mom retired from the hospitality industry last October to focus on her wedding planning side business. Every high price tag wedding through 2015 is a same sex marriage in NY. These couples are long term and solid and are spending $30 to $50 K each.

He's nuts.

Weddings, Funerals and Babies are all money makers.

Lady Freedom Returns

(14,120 posts)
2. What about all the children that could be adopted by same sex couples?
Sat Jun 21, 2014, 07:31 AM
Jun 2014

Are they just out of luck at a chance for a family?

 

bradla

(89 posts)
3. I am gong to state the obvious.
Sat Jun 21, 2014, 09:04 AM
Jun 2014

For a party that is just so worried about big government, they sure do want the government to tell you how to live your life. The inconsistency and hypocrisy makes my head hurt. At least most democrats do not try to take one sided approach to government. There are some things the government is good for and there are some things that you do not want it involved with. Republicans just pretend all government is bad.....well except when it comes to abortion, the need for more federal troops at border, the MIC and on and on. Republican voters are some of the biggest "takers" of federal assistance yet they are mad at those "lazy" liberals. They have no self reflection.

Gothmog

(144,005 posts)
4. Santorum is an idiot
Sat Jun 21, 2014, 02:58 PM
Jun 2014

Santorum really believes that he is qualified to be president. This is very sad

 

Rex

(65,616 posts)
5. What a tool. Can he really be that fucking stupid?
Sat Jun 21, 2014, 03:06 PM
Jun 2014

Don't get me wrong, I've personally known some stupid fucking people, but is it really possible for someone to be so stupid as to blame the economy (which gosh seems to be getting better and better despite this assholes opinion) on a persons relationship with another person?

He has to be one of the stupidest men on the planet earth if he really believes that shit.

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