Rick Santorum's warning to Republicans: Embracing gay marriage is 'suicidal'

[Redfairen]

The social conservative says gay rights is a trendy issue, not a lasting one

Former Senator Rick Santorum (R-Pa.) on Monday cautioned his fellow Republicans against supporting marriage equality, saying that to do so would be "suicidal" for the party.

In an interview with the Des Moines Register, Santorum said he didn't think the party would undergo a radical shift on the issue, even though public opinion has been steadily changing for years, to the point that polls now show a solid majority of Americans support same-sex marriage. And he compared the recent conversion on gay marriage by two Republican senators — Illinois' Mark Kirk and Ohio's Rob Portman — to Republicans splitting with the party on abortion rights decades ago.

"I'm sure you could go back and read stories, oh, you know, 'The Republican Party's going to change. This is the future.' Obviously that didn’t happen," Santorum told the Register. "I think you’re going to see the same stories written now, and it’s not going to happen. The Republican Party's not going to change on this issue. In my opinion it would be suicidal if it did."

http://news.yahoo.com/rick-santorums-warning-republicans-embracing-gay-marriage-suicidal-172300413.html

[brooklynite]

1. An interview with the Des Moines Register?

Golly, why would Santorum be in Iowa?

[Scuba]

2. Sorry Rick, just means the whack-job religious zealot wing of the Party is further marginalized.

[Xipe Totec]

3. Suicide is painless/ It brings on many changes...

[Aristus]

4. EMBRACE IT! EMBRACE IT!!

[madinmaryland]

5. Good to hear from "Man-on-Dog" Santorum again!! nt

[davidpdx]

6. My response would be

"Well Rick, if its suicidal, then it is still their choice. Better to be dead then a homophobe"

[Kennah]

7. Santorum 2016!

What a sight that would be. Just makes me feel like



All we need now is Christ on a pogo stick.

[Paladin]

8. Keep up the good work, Santorum. (nt)

[BREMPRO]

9. since the party is dead already, suicide seems redunant..you can't kill a dead elephant twice.

but i'm happy to see the members continue to work at cross purposes and fight over the values the party represent. better for the rest of us and the country if the R's are in disarray.

[Ikonoklast]

10. Every time a gay couple gets married, Rick Santorum is diminished.

Ands one day soon he will turn completely opaque and just fade away, his words a whisper on the wind, forgotten by all not stunted by hate.

[stevenleser]

11. With this OP, DU seems, somehow frothier.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

12. Embracing Santorum is hazardous to one's health

Please let him be the GOP frontrunner in 2016!!!!

[Arkana]

13. Elvis is dead and Mayberry isn't real, Rick. Let it go.