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On the campaign trail, Rick Santorum rarely passes up an opportunity to pontificate on his favorite subject: the evils of gay marriage and parenthood. Speaking at a boarding school in New Hampshire on Friday, Santorum cited an unnamed anti-poverty expert to claim that children are better off having a parent in prison who abandoned them than having two same-sex parents.
This wasnt just a hypothetical to some children in the audience, at least three of whom had gay parents, the Los Angeles Times reports:
For the second time in as many days, Rick Santorum waded into the issue of gay marriage, suggesting it was so important for children to have both 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.
Read more: http://thinkprogress.org/lgbt/2012/01/07/399942/santorum-tells-kids-with-gay-parents-youd-be-better-off-with-parents-in-prison/
proud2BlibKansan
(96,793 posts)fishwax
(29,148 posts)quickly reveals itself. With guys like Cain and Paul, that took some digging into their past. Santorum is helpful to so eagerly volunteer that information himself. Of course, his bigotry is so ingrained that he really can't seem to help himself.
A HERETIC I AM
(24,362 posts)Turbineguy
(37,291 posts)The stupid is strong in that one!
cpamomfromtexas
(1,245 posts)then why are so many daddy's fighting wars?