McKINNEY, Texas — During a town hall in McKinney, Texas on Wednesday afternoon, Rick Santorum lashed out at the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals for striking down Proposition 8, arguing that the judges displaced “intolerance” towards conservatives and labeled proponents of “traditional” marriage as “bigots” when they found the measure unconstitutional.
Yesterday’s decision affirmed a lower court ruling and concluded that “Proposition 8 serves no purpose, and has no effect, other than to lessen the status and dignity of gays and lesbians in California, and to officially reclassify their relationships and families as inferior to those of opposite-sex couples.”
But Santorum, who did not raise the issue until the very end of the event, argued that the judges had offended religious people.
“Where is the tolerance of someone having a belief structure that is based in nature, that is based in reason, that is based in faith,” Santorum asked. “The intolerance of the left, the intolerance of the secular ideology, it is a religion on to itself, it is just not a biblical based religion. And it is the most intolerant — just like we say from the days of the atheists in the Soviet Union.”
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Everything is bigger in Texas – even the homophobia
lol i find that hysterical lol
Funny. I think he’s “intolerant”.
Pot calling kettle black…
I think he is the INTOLERANT one, the court is just the opposite!
Rick is a Douche Bag !!!
I wish he would just get hit by a speeding bus
I think we need to send him a copy of the Oxford dictionary.
I really hope this buffoon doesn’t make it as a candidate to run against Obama. What the heck does he mean “Common scene” and “in nature”?
Aw, poor little Frothy Mix! If this guy was any deeper in the closet, his mailing address would be in Narnia.
Lindsay, I hope he does get nominated. Then it would be our turn to strike him down…..
Well maybe her prefers Dante’ 9th circle instead.
My parents live there… Haha.
wow. He has to go……back home and stay there! I’d rather have Mitt than Rick any day.
Right now Russia is trying to make it illegal to speak publicly about being queer, so I’d say his comparison is invalid.
Rethugliturds are swirling in the toilet with santorum. Yuck.
lol intolerance coming from the biggest fascist to ever run for president. thats rich
oh god he makes my brain hurt
lol he’s not serious. so much for this supposed separation of church and state but he was careful not to the term”Christian” people although.. Christianity is the “basis” of this “free nation” .. instead he used the blanket term “religious” people.. I guess he wants the Islamic, Jewish, Buddhist, and Hindu etc. support on this one.. anything to go against the LGBTQ community. lol
Please put him out of our misery!
Santorectum.
You promoting Greed, Hate &
Oppression.
He is a MORON!
Yes, and in the dictionary under redundant it says see redundant.
Someone please shut this man the hell up!
We are in backwards land……………
Cuckoo! Cuckoo!
All I can say is; Keep talking Santorum, keep talking. The more shit that comes out of his mouth the better. It’s called ” if you give ‘em enough rope, they will hang themselves”. Every sain person on the borderline will vote Democrat, because the repulirats are all insane this time.
There goes Santorum, frothing away again.
…and they call us gay folk perverted. Mr. Santorum twists like a lewd contortionist to come up with this fecundity. Soviet Union? Really?
The more we know…the better.
what an ass.
dude why are we paying any attention to the frothy mix?
spreadingsantorum.com
BHAHAHAHA. Wow, Santa.
THANK GOD THIS MAN WAS NOT RUNNING WHEN PEOPLE OF COLOR WERE IN THE BACK OF THE BUS, STILL BE THERE!!!!!
So says the deluded religio-fascist. Ugh.
Believe Me We in Pennsylvania cannot wait for him and His wife to come here for the election, especially in Philly. We got rid of him once, he will be reminded of all his issues once he is here and this time it will be for all the world to see….
He should just stick his head up his butt and walk around on his elbows!
Dick santorum is so full of shit because he constantly has his head up his ass.
No matter how many distorted analogies he attempts or how hard he squeezes his eyes closed, the world will not rearrange itself to fit into his little Christian bubble. I think it’s time Santorum & his ilk learn how to exist in the world with all its scary diversity without attempting to use government & legislation as a weapon to beat others down.
the man must be standing on his head, ’cause he surely has things upside down.
STFU, Sanitarium…you’re the biggest effing hypocrite right now…HATER!
Santorum can lick my shoes.
This guy has some sort of obsession with Gay marriage.! What is it to him if the same sex wants to get married, its none of his business!! You don’t see me snooping around saying he cant do this or that. This guy wants to F£cking learn something. He says he’s not homophobic or hatred towards anyone, then why does he keep trying to change something which is done…KNOB!!!!
spoken like a true self righteous republican