Santorum Mocks Gay Marriage: ‘I Love My Brother. Should We Call This Relationship Marriage Too?’
Santorum Mocks Gay Marriage: ‘I Love My Brother. Should We Call This Relationship Marriage Too?’
Today’s Philadelphia Inquirer column by former Republican senator Rick Santorum is a shrill rant against the California Supreme Court for its recent ruling allowing gay marriage. Santorum worries about the “future of marriage as the union of husband and wife” and points out that he was “sounding the alarm about marriage” back in 2003.
To underscore his assertion that gay marriage = the collapse of civilization, he points to Norway:
Look at Norway. It began allowing same-sex marriage in the 1990s. In just the last decade, its heterosexual-marriage rates have nose-dived and its out-of-wedlock birthrate skyrocketed to 80 percent for firstborn children. Too bad for those kids who probably won’t have a dad around, but we can’t let the welfare of children stand in the way of social affirmation, can we?
But what about love? That’s the question a student asked this winter when I spoke at Georgetown University.
Is anyone saying same-sex couples can’t love each other? I love my children. I love my friends, my brother. Heck, I even love my mother-in-law. Should we call these relationships marriage, too? Marriage is and always has been more than the acknowledgment of the love between two people.
Conveniently, Santorum gives no sources for his inaccurate statistics. Norway began allowing same-sex civil unions in 1993. But according to M.V. Lee Badgett, an economics professor at the University of Massachusetts, Norway’s “big surge” in the nonmarital birth rate occurred in the 1980s, jumping from 16 percent to 39 percent. In the decade after Norway authorized civil unions, the nonmarital birth rate rose only “slightly,” and then, “after a couple of years, leveled off at 50 percent.” These rates are similar to those in countries without such laws.
Additionally, in a 2006 Wall Street Journal op-ed, William Eskridge, Jr., a Yale professor, and author Darren Spedale found that heterosexual marriage rates have actually risen 12.7 percent in Norway since 1993. Similarly, divorce rates amongst heterosexual couples have fallen 6 percent.
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Most CLOSET QUEENS like Rick Sanitarium would mock anything that gets closer to be true to themselves.
May 22nd, 2008 at 6:48 pmSantorum: “Heck, I even love my mother-in-law.”
If this isn’t the ultimate indication he’s just blowing smoke through his hat, I don’t what is…
May 22nd, 2008 at 6:49 pmSantorum Mocks Gay Marriage: ‘I Love My Brother. Should We Call This Relationship Marriage Too?’
Incest begins in the home, little dumbass Ricky.
May 22nd, 2008 at 6:50 pmSantorum sez:
I love my children. I love my friends, my brother. Heck, I even love my mother-in-law. Should we call these relationships marriage, too?
That depends, Senator. Do you have sex with any of those people?
If so, semantics is the least of your problems.
May 22nd, 2008 at 6:50 pmWhen times get tough, the republicans bring out ricki boy. Their savior is on board. The fun begins.
May 22nd, 2008 at 6:52 pmWill the Philly Inquirer inquire after Santorum’s assertions and correct them? I wonder…
May 22nd, 2008 at 6:52 pmEven if Tricky Ricky’s statistics were accurate (and it appears that — shock! — they’re not), they still would prove nothing. How’s that saying go? “Concurrence is not causality”?
Does the good Senator emeritus suggest why gay marriage would affect the rates of heterosexual marriage when the relevant pools of participants do not overlap?
May 22nd, 2008 at 6:54 pmralph the wonder llama Says:That depends, Senator. Do you have sex with any of those people?
It’s possible,ralph. He is,afterall a neo-con.
May 22nd, 2008 at 6:55 pmI love my friends, my brother. Heck, I even love my mother-in-law. Should we call these relationships marriage, too?
-Santorum
That’s your business.
May 22nd, 2008 at 6:56 pmPhoto Caption:
May 22nd, 2008 at 6:57 pmWe’re engaged!
What does that have to do with gay marriage?
May 22nd, 2008 at 6:58 pmSo, Ricky is equating a loving homosexual relationship to incest. What a f**king arsehole.
May 22nd, 2008 at 7:00 pmwelll if allowing gay couples to married casues heterosexuals to suddenly go on a shag fast and father hordes of illigetimate children, I’m going to have vote against Gay marriage, for fear Rick Santorum of an outbreak of Santorum spploge leading to a new geeneration of Ricki ruigrats.
I mean that’s what he;s saying isn;t it? If Ellen and Portia get married, Rick will be forced to to indulge in a bumpin-uglies binge!
For pity’s sake NO-ONE wants that! Won’t SOMEBODY think of the chidren?!
May 22nd, 2008 at 7:03 pmcrap…someone delete the above #13–too many spelling mistakes!
May 22nd, 2008 at 7:04 pmthanks
Dr. Hussein Matt Says:
its out-of-wedlock birthrate skyrocketed to 80 percent for firstborn children.
What does that have to do with gay marriage?
Rick Santorum’s entire rant reminds me of the movie ‘Animal House’ where Wormer has just left the Omega frat house and everybody is sad about being expelled. Then Bluto (John Belushi) starts up about not giving up and as he is getting his historical facts wrong, Otter (Tim Matheson) simply says “He’s on a roll, leave him alone”. Facts don’t matter to Rick, as he just makes them up as he goes along. BTW, Rick is another GOP closet homosexual - not that there is anything wrong with that.
May 22nd, 2008 at 7:05 pmAnd tell me again why anyone cares what this irrelevant, hypocritical wanking loser says?
May 22nd, 2008 at 7:06 pmStupid is as stupid does.
*sigh*
May 22nd, 2008 at 7:06 pmCaption:
May 22nd, 2008 at 7:07 pmAfter exchanging lapel pins, the pasty faced couple boarded a plane for Kennebunkport to tell parents the joyful news.
Santorum
Just sayin’…
May 22nd, 2008 at 7:08 pmSure ricky…. give your brother a good hard rogering and get it out of your system.
May 22nd, 2008 at 7:08 pmZooey,
WOO HOO! That puts a whole new light on things. Maybe he from the planet Uranus?
May 22nd, 2008 at 7:12 pmBreaking News!!!
A new photo of man-on-dog ricky has been found on the internet(s)!!!
http://img186.imageshack.us/ my.php?image=santorum7137845670b53sh9.jpg
May 22nd, 2008 at 7:15 pmIf Ricky knew how gay Chimpy was, he wouldn’t be standing so close.
May 22nd, 2008 at 7:16 pmAnyone who takes anything Rick Santorum has to ssay needs to see a shrink….STAT.
May 22nd, 2008 at 7:17 pmHmmm, doesn’t Norway outrank the United States in many categories, including quality of life, per capita income, life expectancy, and education? Maybe that’s what happens when you focus on REAL issues (i.e. universal health care) and stop tring to discriminate against gay people for political gain.
May 22nd, 2008 at 7:17 pmupside99 Says:
Zooey,
WOO HOO! That puts a whole new light on things. Maybe he from the planet Uranus?
May 22nd, 2008 at 7:12 pm
Only in Ricky’s wet dreams… ;)
May 22nd, 2008 at 7:19 pmi dunno; do you have sex with your brother, ricky?
May 22nd, 2008 at 7:21 pmFunny, but I prefer, and am glad, that Ricky is writing rants in regional newspapers rather than casting legislative votes having a national effect. Thank you Bob Casey and the good voters of Pennsylvania for relegating this clown to an Op-Ed shrill.
May 22nd, 2008 at 7:25 pm“Don’t confuse me with the facts, Man. I’m a Rethuglican, Uncle Dick (not because his front name is Richard) has already told me my mind is made up.”
May 22nd, 2008 at 7:29 pmDick Sanitarium,
“I love my friends, my brother. Heck, I even love my mother-in-law. Should we call these relationships marriage, too?”
If you’re inbred like you…thoughts like these are in your dreams…everyone else would declare you DISGUSTING!!!
May 22nd, 2008 at 7:29 pmIn this years compilation of the worlds most peaceful nations, Norway ranked number 3 out of 140. In 2007 it was number 1.
(The United States is ranked at number 97 this year….)
May 22nd, 2008 at 7:30 pmDick Sanitarium,
Tell me you love your son or daughter, under you definition of love, and I will report as a child molester you moron!!!!!
BTW, go to hell!!!
May 22nd, 2008 at 7:31 pmWait so these gay couples are somehow contributing to out of wedlock births? How does this make sense? Is it because men are impregnating women and then bouncing on the baby and marrying other dudes instead of their baby mamas? Or is it some sort of “gays getting married destroys the moral fabric of our society” argument?
Either way Santorum is a stupid, stupid man. I don’t often like to hurl names or insults around, but Jesus, this guy is practically retarded.
May 22nd, 2008 at 7:38 pmSantorum was defeated 59% to 41% in the 2006 U.S. Senate election by Democratic candidate Bob Casey, Jr. This was the largest margin of defeat for an incumbent Senator since 1980.
Santorum’s words to live by, “Vice is nice, but incest is best.”
May 22nd, 2008 at 7:42 pmThe reason these Yahoo-Redneck-Yokels-Fundamentalists think “Gay Marriage” equals bestiality, incest, perversion, etc, is because they see women as objects of re-manufacturing smaller versions of themselves. Sex to them is mainly procreation, and Larry Craig. Jimmy Swaggart, Mark Foley, etc, are their results. Females will never be equal to men in their eyes.
May 22nd, 2008 at 8:30 pmGee Rick, I’m all for gay marriage but you having sex with your brother is kind of creepy.
May 22nd, 2008 at 8:32 pmNotice he doesn’t mention his wife among all the people he could perhaps love….
May 22nd, 2008 at 8:39 pmObviously this idiot is into incest. Gay/lesbian people are not.
May 22nd, 2008 at 8:48 pmIf you want to draw the truth about marriage out of these people, just get Congress to pass a law abolishing divorce. You’ll get a front row seat to some real hot hypocrisy and Santorum will be at the front of the line.
May 22nd, 2008 at 8:49 pmOK. And the proof regarding a link between gay marriage and heterosexual marriage rates is…?
May 22nd, 2008 at 9:00 pmLet’s see….if gays are getting married, then straight people are not and having babies out of wedlock because…
May 22nd, 2008 at 9:07 pm…wait, wait, don’t tell me…
…because they feel that marriage has become too much like showtunes and Judy Garland and is now just plain tacky?
Because now in Norway if you announce that you’re getting married, that they’ll also exppect you to start redecorating and paying too much money for shoes and worrying about your abs?
(Hmmm…doesn’t fit in with that whole pregnancy thing..let’s try again…)
Is it because if you announce you’re getting married, that you’re going to dtart having intense silent discussions at parties, where one of you ends up locking yourself in the bathroom for hours and the other one starts begging for cigarettes and laughing really loudly…
(..um, no, not really restricted to gays…let’s see…)
Once gays start to get married, straight people stop getting married and start having children out of wedlock because the prospective married couples look at Siegfried and Roy and realize they just can’t compete with capes and albino tigers, and just give up and live in sin?
That must be it…
Santorum is irrelevant. He is a perfect example that devoutly religious people are the most dangerous people on earth because they do not know right from wrong.
May 22nd, 2008 at 9:27 pmNevar Says:
Notice he doesn’t mention his wife among all the people he could perhaps love….
May 22nd, 2008 at 8:39 pm
Well spotted, Nevar.
May 22nd, 2008 at 9:39 pmJebus. Everflucking bigoted asshat!!!!
May 22nd, 2008 at 9:48 pmWhat, no frothy mix comments? Y’all are slippin…..
May 22nd, 2008 at 9:49 pmThe great retard of the Republican party said something and someone listened? Santorum is a blithering fool. He is an embarrassment to the Republicans and humanity. You know it’s bad when you can make Dan Quayle look like Einstein.
And the Republicans are absolutely clueless how to argue and make sense. Their arguments are always a series of non-sequiturs.
May 22nd, 2008 at 10:48 pmSo a defeated man-on-dog princess gets air time to spout lies and confess to incest???? Must be a slow news day . . .
May 22nd, 2008 at 11:36 pmBlockhead - we would call that incest.
I don’t think I can take any more of these rightwing nuts and their obsession with sex and with the sex that other consenting adults do behind closed doors.
May 22nd, 2008 at 11:43 pmWhat else to expect from a “SANITORIUM”.
May 22nd, 2008 at 11:45 pmGaydar Off The Charts!
May 23rd, 2008 at 12:48 am.
PRESERVE MARRIAGE
OUTLAW DIVORCE!
.
May 23rd, 2008 at 1:05 am#46 abarts Says:
That one is between he and his brother…
May 23rd, 2008 at 1:06 amBut is he ready to marry his brother’s dog?
May 23rd, 2008 at 2:25 amThat time of year for those critters to climb out from under their rocks…….
May 23rd, 2008 at 2:59 amSantorum: “Heck, I even love my mother-in-law.”
I’m sure he has … and his little dog too.
May 23rd, 2008 at 4:08 amThe reason why this idiot is equating gay marriage and out-of-wedlock children is that he is pandering to his lunatic base.
They consider all kinds of liberal notions to destroy the Christian morality and backbone of the nation. They apply the slippery slope fallacy.
And you guys are right, Santorum should use comparisons to Norway very, very carefully. It is a Nordic country with a huge oil reserve, it is a rich and equal society. Very hard to demonize by any reasonable standard.
May 23rd, 2008 at 5:03 amJust like he loved the miscarried dead baby they passed around at the sanscrotum house one christmas eve. Yes, ricky the necrophiliac is really someone to take advice from.
May 23rd, 2008 at 6:05 am“Santorum Mocks Gay Marriage: ‘I Love My Brother. Should We Call This Relationship Marriage Too?’”
Nah, in your case, genetical inherited idiocy.
May 23rd, 2008 at 7:05 amThe decline in marriage rates in Norway began in the late 1960’s and bottomed out in the mid 1990’s. Norway passed a civil union law in 1996 for gays and the marriage rate actually increased. Same sex marriage was made legal in Norway just this year.
Norway Marriage Rates
Does Norway has some sort of time machine which they use to enforce their laws in the past?
May 23rd, 2008 at 9:34 amNoMoreBush Says:
————————————————————-Thank you Bob Casey and the good voters of Pennsylvania for relegating this clown to an Op-Ed shrill.
Don’t insult clowns. Unlike man-on-dog’s brother (or is it brother’s dog?) Santorum, clowns at least have some talent.
May 23rd, 2008 at 9:55 amMan, I pity Sanitoriums poor dog.
May 23rd, 2008 at 10:25 amNow Sanitorium wants to do his brother?
I thought ex-Senator man-on-dog preferred Fido.
Next thing you know he’ll be wanting group interspecies marriages. Can a dog legally consent to this?
May 23rd, 2008 at 10:39 amWhere’s D today? This thread has his name written all over it.
Santorum=completely irrelevant
Gay marriage=a fu(king good idea and also=no threat to anyone
May 23rd, 2008 at 10:53 amDaryll is busy today. He’s taping a threesome with his brother and his dog, which he is going to sell to the former GOP Senator from Pennsylvania.
May 23rd, 2008 at 11:51 amDirectly conversely, if marrying his brother would be something like gay sex, then marrying his sister must be approved heterosexual response. Well, logic was never his forte.
May 25th, 2008 at 6:56 pmI wonder if Little Ricky is using the civil union law of Norway to inflate numbers. Norway allows civil unions between same-sex and opposite-sex couples. Could he be considering children of civil union opposite-sex couples to be born “out-of-wedlock”?
May 27th, 2008 at 1:33 pm