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Wow, Rick. You dont seriously believe that having a convicted criminal for a father is better for children than having two parents of the same sex, do you?
MANCHESTER, N.H. For the second time in as many days, Rick Santorum on Friday drew attention away from his efforts to craft a blue-collar economic message by wading into the issue of gay marriage. He suggested it was so important for children to have a father and mother that an imprisoned father was preferable to a same-sex parent.
Citing the work of one anti-poverty expert, Santorum said, he found that even fathers in jail who had abandoned their kids, were still better than no father at all to have in their childrens lives.
Yes, he actually does believe this. OK, thats our right wing jaw-dropper of the day
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/39726_Santorum-_A_Criminal_Father_is_Better_Than_Two_Mommies
http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/01/06/2577346/santorum-again-stresses-social.html
orpupilofnature57
(15,472 posts)RandySF
(59,221 posts)Right?
undeterred
(34,658 posts)Oh yeah, right.
Gemini Cat
(2,820 posts)Keep on talking rick. Sooner or later even the dumbest of supporters will get disgusted. (I hope.)
Initech
(100,102 posts)Faygo Kid
(21,478 posts)And now this. I grew up with no father, who in fact did abandon the family (after beating my mother mercilessly in front of my little brother and me as tykes).
And thank God he was gone. I can't even begin to describe the depth of my disgust for Santorum. Maybe if I was to Google his name. . .
izquierdista
(11,689 posts)the froth sure is bubbling over now!
Justice wanted
(2,657 posts)own manhood.
Blue Owl
(50,494 posts)spanone
(135,873 posts)complain jane
(4,302 posts)saras
(6,670 posts)DCKit
(18,541 posts)surrealAmerican
(11,364 posts)Surely, fathers in jail "who had abandoned their kids", are part of the definition of not being "in their children's lives".
hobbit709
(41,694 posts)brooklynite
(94,727 posts)Santorum isn't catching fire here in NH, and his crackpot religious views aren't helping. I think he's going to sputter out soon.