Rick Santorum ( byproduct of anal sex) Gets Booed When He Talks Nasty About Gays (vid)
The World Ain’t get no better…it’s up to you and me!
The guy on the pic appeared today on msnbc as an x-aide to Santorum. Said he was gay and his ex boss was not against gays just gay marriage.
No One is more against gays than some gays. Particularly those not out. But also out gays. They have been have been told how disgusted, ugly, derange, anti society, anti kids anti everything we are.
No wonder we have people like that guy! and others that even support R. Paul. It took a very strong political movement to stick together to bring Equal Marriage to NY State. In the national arena if we want to get rid of DOMA and politicians coming out and telling the public who we should or not sleep with. We need to get together the same coalition of people. adamfoxie*
By Julianna Goldman
-- By Rick Santorum’s own admission, the Concord, New Hampshire, crowd he was addressing probably wasn’t going to be receptive to his conservative view on social issues.
“I’m surprised I got a gay marriage question at a college crowd; really that’s a shock to me,” he joked.
For the most part, his audience was booing, not laughing.
The issue sparked what was, at several points over the course of an almost hour-long question and answer session, a contentious back and forth between Santorum and New Hampshire college students on social issues.
“Well what about three men?,” Santorum responded to a female student who asked him about his position on gay marriage. “If reason says that if you think it’s OK for two, then you have to differentiate with me as to why it’s not okay for three.”
Santorum initially welcomed the exchanges with several students. Then he tried to move on to other subjects as the audience interrupted and cheered the questioners rather than the candidate. The former Pennsylvania senator said he welcomed the state’s legalization of same-sex marriage because it was decided by the legislature.
Defending Marriage
Still, he defended his position to keep marriage a union between a man and a woman: “Because I believe we are made the way God made man and woman and man and woman come together to have a union to produce children which keeps civilization going and provide the best environment for children to be raised,” Santorum said. “I think that is something society should value and should give privileged status over a group of people who want to have a relationship together.”
The reception was an anomaly of sorts for Santorum, who arrived in New Hampshire last night to large and receptive crowds fresh off his second-place finish in the Iowa caucuses.
At his other events today, Santorum connected with his audiences, focusing on his economic prescriptions and his personal narrative of coming from a Catholic, working-class family with immigrant grandparents. So, it seemed an odd choice to address a crowd of students speaking about American exceptionalism and focusing on conservative social values.
Medical Marijuana
About 40 minutes into the questions, the audience clapped when another student asked Santorum whether, as president, he would allow state gay marriage and medical marijuana laws to operate without federal government interference.
“I don’t believe that we can have 50 definitions of marriage,” Santorum said. “Just to say that we should have 50 definitions of what life is. I don’t think that works either. I think there are certain things that are essential elements of society upon which society rests that we have to have a consensus.”
Pressed on his stance on medical marijuana, Santorum mistakenly identified the drug as a narcotic before being corrected by the audience.
“I don’t know my medical marijuana laws very well,” he joked. Still, he called the drug a hazard to society, and when someone shouted a question asking him how he formed that opinion, Santorum said: “I form that opinion from my own life experiences and having experiences, I went to college, too.”
The reference to what he may or may not have done during his days at Pennsylvania State University didn’t quell the majority of those in the audience, whose boos trumped any applause Santorum received at the end.
--With assistance from Jeanne Cummings in Washington. Editors: Jeanne Cummings, Jim Rubin.
To contact the reporter on this story: Julianna Goldman in Concord, New Hampshire at jgoldman6@bloomberg.net
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Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum was booed as he left the stage at a College Convention in Concord, New Hampshire Friday. The former Pennsylvania senator got into a debate over gay marriage with several people who attended.
By NBC's Andrew Rafferty
CONCORD, N.H. -- Rick Santorum left the stage of a town-hall meeting to a chorus of boos Thursday after getting into a contentious debate over gay marriage with an audience comprised of mostly young people.
Speaking at the 2012 "College Convention" here, the fireworks started when a student asked Santorum why he opposed gay marriage. Santorum's rhetorical style when answering questions is often to ask question back to the audience. But his questions soon prompted shouting from members of the nearly 200-person crowd, which led to an, at times, hostile back and forth.
"How about the idea that all men are created [with] equal rights to happiness and liberty?" a woman in the audience asked the former Pennsylavnia senator after he stated his opposition to gay marriage.
Santorum retorted, "Are we saying that everyone should have the right to marry?"
When the audience member told him yes, he shot back, "So anyone can marry can marry anybody else, so, if that’s the case, then everyone can marry several people."
As more students shouted, Santorum tried to end the discussion that had devolved into students shouting over each other in an attempt to drown out Santorum's words. While he was briefly able to steer the conversation away from the controversial issue, the candidate found himself in the same dangerous territory when a crowd member asked if he would adhere to the conservative pillar of state's rights in cases when a state legalizes gay marriage and medical marijuana.
"I think there are some things that are essential elements of society to which a society rests that we have to have a consensus on," Santorum said. "That's why I believe on things as essential as 'what is life' and what life is protected under the Constitution should be a federal charge, not a state by state."
He then admitted he was not familiar with medical marijuana laws, which led the crowd to press him on how he came to developing his views on issues he was unfamiliar with.
"Well I form that opinion from my own life experiences and having experienced that," he said. "I went to college too."
Campaigning in New Hampshire over the past two days, Santorum focused on entitlement reform, dinging President Obama over his fiscal record and what Santorum sees as mishandling foreign policy. But in front of the mostly young audience, he returned to the strong social-conservative message that resonated with many evangelical voters in Iowa. Even before the question-and-answer portion, he spoke about what he sees as the Judeo-Christian values America was founded on.
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