In case you didn’t already think Rick Santorum was an ignorant jerk

Get a load of this:

The GOP presidential hopeful recently attended a town hall at a Dublin, New Hampshire private school where he preached his wisdom on what, exactly, makes a good father. In a word? Straight. As in heterosexual. Full stop.

“Marriage is not a right,” Santorum said. “It’s a privilege that is given to society by society for a reason….We want to encourage what is the best for children.”

So important is it to have both a father and a mother, Santorum suggested, that even a father who “is in jail and has abandoned” his family is better for a child than two gay parents.

Yes, a deadbeat dad, uninvolved in his child’s life, is better than having a gay dad, so says Santorum. He continued:

Allowing gays to marry and raise children, he said, amounts to “robbing children of something they need, they deserve, they have a right to. You may rationalize that that isn’t true, but in your own life and in your own heart, you know it’s true.”

The idiocy, bigotry and general ignorance that GOP candidates like Santorum, Ron Paul, Newt Gingrich, et al. and their supporters continue to display sickens me. The upside? Obama wins his second term this November.

Written by gritchik

January 8, 2012 at 2:18 pm

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“So important is it to have both a father and a mother, Santorum suggested, that even a father who “is in jail and has abandoned” his family is better for a child than two gay parents.”

What in the holy hell? Is this guy literally trying to create a sociopathic society?

Volkov

January 8, 2012 at 5:07 pm

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If it’s any consolation, it seems that Santorum’s evangelical idiocy has fallen flat in the Granite State.

redtory

January 9, 2012 at 2:06 pm

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