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Originally Posted by RichieLion
You are misrepresenting and blatantly lying about Santorum. When did he ever say gays are animals.
You are becoming deranged. That's your clarification.
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To be precise, he compares gay sex to bestiality.
A longer quote of his that shows his blind spot when it comes to sex:
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“If the Supreme Court says that you have the right to consensual sex within your home, then you have the right to bigamy, you have the right to polygamy, you have the right to incest, you have the right to adultery. You have the right to anything. Does that undermine the fabric of our society? I would argue, yes, it does,” he said, referring to a Supreme Court case, Lawrence v. Texas, that struck down a sodomy law in the Lone Star state. “This right to privacy that doesn’t exist in my opinion in the United States Constitution.”
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Consensual sex outside of marriage is not bigamy. Marrying more than one person is.
Consensual sex is not polygamy. It could be polyamory depending on how you really feel about them.
Incest is another matter entirely and usually only prosecuted when one of the 'partners' is underage.
Oh, but if the CHURCH is doing it, he takes a completely different attitude:
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On the Catholic Church’s international pedophile priests scandal, in which, for decades, priests have sexually assaulted, molested, and raped young boys and girls: “In this case, what we’re talking about, basically, is priests who were having sexual relations with post-pubescent men. We’re not talking about priests with 3-year-olds, or 5-year-olds. We’re talking about a basic homosexual relationship.”
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He participates in what my semantics teacher taught as as one of the seven tactics that loses debates - in this case "reducto ad absurdum" - reducing to the absurd:
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“So anyone can marry anybody else? So if that’s the case, then everyone can marry several people … so you can be married to five people. Is that O.K.?” Santorum questioned a student in Concord, N.H.
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Having that kind of relationship with five people could actually probably be handled by the legal entity known as a "corporation".
But back to the point. In NH, Santorum denied comparing homosexuality to bestiality. Well, boys and girls, here it is - from a 2003 USA Today interview:
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"In every society, the definition of marriage has not ever to my knowledge included homosexuality. That's not to pick on homosexuality. It's not, you know, man on child, man on dog, or whatever the case may be. It is one thing."
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The "it's not" referred to "marriage". Later on, when pressed, Santorum has tried to say the "it's not" referred to homosexuality. But when you look at his other quotes, the pattern is clear.