Stating, “We can’t have 50 different marriage laws in this country,” Rick Santorum vowed to unmarry the 131,000 or more same-sex legally married couples in America, according to an article Saturday in the San Francisco Chronicle. And while the statement itself isn’t news — he first made the comment in late December — it does bear repeating:
There are 18,000 married gay and lesbian couples in California and at least 131,000 nationwide according to the 2010 census, conducted before New York state legalized same-sex marriage in July.
Rick Santorum says he’ll try to unmarry all of them if he’s elected president.
Once the U.S. Constitution is amended to prohibit same-gender marriages, “their marriage would be invalid,” the former Pennsylvania senator said Dec. 30 in an NBC News interview.
“We can’t have 50 different marriage laws in this country,” he said. “You have to have one marriage law.”
Note to Mr. Santorum: We already have 50 different marriage laws in this country. Marriage, for better or worse, is a state issue. States get to decide who can marry, who can marry whom, when, at what age, under what circumstances, and so on. And so, there already are 50 different marriage laws in this country.
READ: Separation Of Church And State: Vast Majority Disagree With Santorum
But the very idea of “unmarrying” married couples exemplifies the height of arrogance and the depths of depravity — not to mention hypocrisy — Santorum sells.
Why is it the Republican Party in general, and Rick Santorum in particular, can claim to care more about family than Democrats, but be the first to define what “family” is, who can have one, who cannot, what that family should look like, and have zero compunction about breaking up a family that doesn’t fit their template?
“Santorum’s position is noteworthy because laws revoking individual rights are usually drafted, or interpreted by the courts, to apply only to future conduct,” the Chronicle article notes, adding:
Santorum’s proposal for constitutionally mandated divorces would affect couples like Stuart Gaffney and John Lewis of San Francisco, longtime partners who wed in June 2008, five months before Prop. 8 banned same-sex marriage. The couple later helped to found an organization called Marriage Equality USA.
“It’s with profound sadness that I contemplate somebody running for the highest office in the land on a platform of taking away anyone’s marriage,” Gaffney said Friday.
Rick Santorum has proven himself so far out of the mainstream, he not running for president, but for Pope.
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Even though I know it's only hot air — the courts would not permit this — it is infuriating that he would say or even think such a thing. This man has evil in his heart. his rhetoric suggests he is not a Roman Catholic — and evidence suggests that he is not even a Christian. He fancies hims self a demagogue. He must be stopped.
What is so laughable is this is a man who for just about everything else says it is a state issue but the federal government should tell you who to love. Taliban West
Alex is correct, but there are other reasons to be concerned. While I do not believe he has a chance of winning the presidential election, he is stirring up the bible banging segment of the population. They have shown time and again that they will lie and cheat to achieve their goals. Very Christian behavior. They will never rest and can cause reversals in laws that have been passed. They are capable of winning many battles but fortunately they won't win the war. Younger people are much more accepting than they were 10 years ago. Polls show the majority think gays should have all of the rights as straights. As more and more of them come of age and begin voting, the old, bigoted right wing will be pushed aside. I for one can't wait to see Santorum crash and burn along with his very sick and twisted followers.
This site is full of nothing but hypocrisy. You can say anything you want, as long as they agree with you.
Homosexuality is a abomination in the eyes of God.
repent now and turn to God. Hell is no place for anyone.
Actually, we are 100% hypocrisy-free! And free of religious bigots like you, too. Not all people of faith are bigot, just to be clear. Just those like you who think they know everything and for some god-awful reason think it's their job to share their beliefs with others. Trust me — we really don't care what you have to say. Thanks for visiting.
Funny how 3% of the population think they can have special rights.a
Funny how some people think they can deny equal rights to some people just because they are a minority. Being able to marry the one you love is not a "special right". We all have that right and eventually these anti-gay laws will all be struck down in court just like the anti-miscegenation laws because they are unconstitutional.
I hope the day never comes when “gay marriage” is legal. Next pedophiles andzoophilias will want to marry too.Leviticus 18:2221st Century King James Version (KJ21)22Thou shalt not lie with mankind as with womankind: it is abomination.S.TODDFrom: notifications@intensedebatemail.comTo: tat0010@msn.comSubject: colibriverde replied to your comment on Santorum Vows To Unmarry 131,000 Same-Sex Couples
Keep your personal belief system out of my civil rights.
Why so you can push yourimmoral belief system?S.TODDFrom: notifications@intensedebatemail.comTo: tat0010@msn.comSubject: bgryphon replied to your comment on Santorum Vows To Unmarry 131,000 Same-Sex Couples
"Thou shalt not lie with mankind as with womankind: it is abomination."
This is a common scripture used in the argument against civil rights for homosexuals. The problem is, you can't bring up this one law and ignore all of the others that are considered mandated by your God. For example:
You must not wear clothing woven part of wool, part of linen. -Deuteronomy 22:11
If someone has a stubborn and rebellious son who does not obey his father and mother and will not listen to them when they discipline him, his father and mother shall take hold of him and bring him to the elders at the gate of his town. They shall say to the elders, “This son of ours is stubborn and rebellious. He will not obey us. He is a glutton and a drunkard.” Then all the men of his town are to stone him to death. You must purge the evil from among you. All Israel will hear of it and be afraid.-Deuteronomy 21:18-21
If a man happens to meet a virgin who is not pledged to be married and rapes her and they are discovered, he shall pay her father fifty shekels of silver. He must marry the young woman, for he has violated her. He can never divorce her as long as he lives.-Deuteronomy 22:28-29
Your male and female slaves are to come from the nations around you; from them you may buy slaves. You may also buy some of the temporary residents living among you and members of their clans born in your country, and they will become your property.-Leviticus 25:44
There are many more I could go into, but you get the idea. If you're going to promote bigotry against homosexuals based on Old Testament scripture, then you also have to promote the murder of one's unruly children, the idea that mixed fabrics are an abomination, that a woman who is raped must marry her rapist, and that it's perfectly okay to own slaves.
Just sayin'.
We are all born this way. We are all born into sin. We are all sinners.One was not and they nailed him to a tree. Repent and turn to the one who was sinless.John 3:17S.TODDFrom: notifications@intensedebatemail.comTo: tat0010@msn.comSubject: RedBeard5174 replied to your comment on Santorum Vows To Unmarry 131,000 Same-Sex Couples
And by the way, YOU are the one in the minority. 53% of Americans support gay marriage.
"Special rights" would imply that only gay people would have the right to marry. The reverse is true. YOU have special rights just because you happen to be straight.
We live in a secular society. The government is not obligated to promote your chosen religious beliefs (indicated in another of your posts).
Prove to anyone that you are different then anyone else? Just cause you CHOOSE to have sex with someone does not make you different. You have the same rights as everyone else. You have the right to marry. You just want to marry the same gender. This is the special rights I was talking of.You people say you were born this way. This is true. All people were born from sin and God wants us to repent from this sin and turn back to him.I pray that ALL people will see the truth and turn to God before it is to late.Love and peace from our Lord Jesus Christ.S.TODDFrom: notifications@intensedebatemail.comTo: tat0010@msn.comSubject: david0296 replied to your comment on Santorum Vows To Unmarry 131,000 Same-Sex Couples
You have no idea what my personal belief system might be… although of course to a close-minded person anything that differs one iota from their personal mythology must be "immoral".
It's amazing how much time (and brain activity) you save by making judgements in the absence of evidence.
Personal attacks against me is your onlyrecourse. By immoral belief, I mean your gay lifestyle.S.TODDFrom: notifications@intensedebatemail.comTo: tat0010@msn.comSubject: bgryphon replied to your comment on Santorum Vows To Unmarry 131,000 Same-Sex Couples
And you don't think that calling everyone who accepts non-heterosexuals as full and equal citizens is a personal attack? It's time for you to take your martyr complex somewhere else.
That makes nosense. You guys arehypocrites. You want special rights and have no proof as to why you deserve it. You call people bigots when they don't agree with you, or say the must be a repressedhomosexual. When all else fells attack the person. sigh.You can call yourself married all you want, but in the eye's of God you are not. He is the one that made marriage.No matter how many time you say, “There is no God. that is a myth.” One day you will stand before him and I hope your name is in the Lamb's book of Life. For your sake.Good bye!John 3:16S.TODDFrom: notifications@intensedebatemail.comTo: tat0010@msn.comSubject: bgryphon replied to your comment on Santorum Vows To Unmarry 131,000 Same-Sex Couples
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