Rick Santorum
“The Marriage Vow – A Declaration of Dependence Upon Marriage and Family,” is the creation of “The Family Leader,” an Iowa-based conservative Christian group, and its CEO, Bob Vander Plaats.
The pledge which includes 14 bullet points that signers must agree to, including opposition to any “redefinition of marriage,” also likens same-sex couples to polygamists and adulterers, and states that homosexuality is both a choice and a health risk.
Santorum, appearing on CNN’s “State of the Union” on Sunday, said initially he was “taken aback” by the pledge, but that he “certainly felt comfortable signing it.”
Santorum is not alone in his support of the pledge. Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.), also seeking the GOP nomination, was the first to sign it, doing so on Thursday only hours after the pledge was introduced.
The pledge also included what critics have described as “pro-slavery” language. Its preamble included this passage:
“Slavery had a disastrous impact on African-American families, yet sadly a child born into slavery in 1860 was more likely to be raised by his mother and father in a two-parent household than was an African-American baby born after the election of the USA?s first African-American President.”
But on Saturday, amid growing questions aimed at Bachmann, Family Leader officials said they’d removed the slavery language.
The Family Leader is a conservative traditional values organization headed by Iowa Republican homophobe Bob Vander Plaats, leader of the effort that resulted in the voter recall of three Iowa supreme court justices last November.
“We believe that the candidates’ positions on core values, such as marriage, correlate directly to his/her moral stances on energy issues, sound budgeting policies, national defense, and economic policies,” Vander Plaats said in a statement.
Vander Plaats says the vow of marriage fidelity doesn’t apply to past behavior, but only looking forward.
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jackass!
I can’t believe that we’re still fighting people like this for something as simple as equality.
interesting choice of phrasing, that.
He and Vander Platts both are FAILED REPUBLICAN DOUCHEBAGS. Period.
What an asshole, he’s comparing adultery and poligamy to same sex relationships, r u serious? They r so different
Seriously? He’s a giant douche! I have a problem with people like him.
Really he sucks!!
Sounds like he’s really “frothing” at the mouth…hehehehehe.
What? Another anti-gay pledge? This is a reason why America is no longer the land of the free.
soooo….only married heterosexual people who can reproduce are considered “families”?
Look up “Santorum” on google and prepare to shit thyself.
Wow what a fuckhead
Haha the definition of his last name in Google certainly fits. What a Dick^.^
You mean he said he was already on his back ?
Rick ‘Man on dog ‘ Santorum is an eye-roll inciting nutjob.
My wife and I are a family, no matter what this douchebag says.
Oh Rick, you just made google santorum again you slimey two-faced bitch.
So what exactly should Obama have done? Send people to prison for having a child out of wedlock, outlaw pre-marital sex, ban divorce? I Don’t understand these people at all. What does Obama has to do with this claim whether it’s fact or not? I thought these people were moronic when it came to gay issues but it turns out they’re just moronic,
Well we all know politicians are really after their own fame & fortune $$$ and will sell their country out for a nice cash bribe in a heartbeat and so we shoudn’t be surprised at all even if he signed a pledge to sell his wife or daughters if he has any to a nice slave trader if the check is big enough oh and it clears the bank first for sure why the heck not !
……………. Fungus.
Kiss my ass Santorium… oh wait, here he comes running.
The U.S. is not a church! Please, if he wants to have a church just found one and manage as you like it or as whatever religious book he believes in!
I’m one man, married to one woman for over 25 years. The only thing that truly harms my “traditional” marriage is when hate-mongers like Vander Plaats, Santorum and Bachmann use my marriage as a false reason to deny equal civil rights to LGBT Americans.
what gets me is the term “be faithful to your spouses” really what is that about? like allowing equal rights to all would somehow make you unfaithful? or was this composed by a closed homo?
actually the dems should really use this document and anyone signing it as a way to point out that these people do not stand for what america was built upon.