Young people won't stop askg Rick Santom about gay rights |

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• 10 OUTRAGEO THGS RICK SANTOM HAS SAIDOUTBURSTSAS RICK SANTOM SURG NATNAL POLLS, THE DAILY BEAST ROUNDS UP 10 OF HIS CRAZIT STATEMENTS.THE DAILY BEASTUPDATED JUL. 13, 2017 11:37AM EDT / PUBLISHED FEB. 20, 2012 10:32AM EST ERIC GAY / AP PHOTOSTHERE ARE POLICIANS WHO MAKE GAFF, AND THEN THERE’S RICK SANTOM. THE FORMER PENNSYLVANIA SENATOR AND REPUBLIN PRINTIAL NTENR HAS GAED RPECT OM SOME NSERVATIV FOR WHAT THEY SEE AS A POLICIAN STICKG TO HIS GUNS, BUT OTHERS THK HE’S JT A FEW KNIGHTS TEMPLAR SHORT OF A HOLY WAR. FROM PRINTIAL PROSTRATNS TO MEDIEVAL AGGRSN, THE DAILY BEAST ROUNDS UP SANTOM’S KOOKIT UTTERANC. 1. CANE LOV’THIS ONE HAS FOLLOWED SANTOM FOR NEARLY A . IN A 2003 TERVIEW WH THE ASSOCIATED PRS, SANTOM ARGUED THAT IF THE SUPREME COURT STCK DOWN SODOMY LAWS AND ALLOWED PEOPLE TO PERFORM HOMOSEXUAL ACTS THEIR OWN HOM, THOANDS OF YEARS OF CIVILIZATN WOULD GO OUT THE WDOW. MARRIAGE AS AN STUTN THAT EXISTS ONLY BETWEEN A MAN AND A WOMAN MT BE UPHELD, HE SAID. “IN EVERY SOCIETY, THE FN OF MARRIAGE HAS NOT EVER TO MY KNOWLEDGE CLUD HOMOSEXUALY,” SANTOM SAID. “THAT’S NOT TO PICK ON HOMOSEXUALY. IT’S NOT, YOU KNOW, MAN ON CHILD, MAN ON DOG, OR WHATEVER THE SE MAY BE.”2. AMERI’S TROJAN HORSE IN A EEWHEELG TERVIEW WH NSERVATIVE BLOG LAST OCTOBER, CANDIDATE RICK SPENT A GOOD AL OF TIME RHAPSODIZG ABOUT WHAT PRINT RICK WOULD DO ABOUT NTRACEPTN AND SEXUAL ETHICS. “ONE OF THE THGS I WILL TALK ABOUT, THAT NO PRINT HAS TALKED ABOUT BEFORE, IS I THK THE DANGERS OF NTRACEPTN THIS UNTRY,” SANTOM SAID. “MANY OF THE CHRISTIAN FAH HAVE SAID, WELL, THAT’S OK; NTRACEPTN IS OK. IT’S NOT OK. IT’S A LICENSE TO DO THGS A SEXUAL REALM THAT IS UNTER TO HOW THGS ARE SUPPOSED TO BE.”3. PENNY FOR HIS THOUGHTSAT A JANUARY MPAIGN STOP IOWA, SANTOM TOOK ON ENTLEMENT REFORM. HE TOOK CRICISM FOR HIS REMARKS WHEN HE TOLD A MONOCHROMATIC IOWA DIENCE, “I DON’T WANT TO MAKE BLACK PEOPLE’S LIV BETTER BY GIVG THEM SOMEBODY ELSE’S MONEY. I WANT TO GIVE THEM THE OPPORTUNY TO GO OUT AND EARN MONEY.”4. FACE PLANTIN AN APPEARANCE ON GRETA VAN STEREN’S FOX NEWS SHOW MARCH 2010, SANTOM WAS ASKED WHETHER PRINT OBAMA SHOULD LAY A TRIP ABROAD OR STAY WASHGTON AND HASH OUT A ROLUTN TO THE BATE OVER HEALTH-RE REFORM. BSHG ASI THE HEALTH-RE ISSUE, SANTOM SAID, “I THK THE DEMOCRATS ARE ACTUALLY WORRIED HE [OBAMA] MAY GO TO INDONIA AND BOW TO MORE MLIMS.”5. KISSG KRETURNG TO THE TOPIC OF THE SUPREME COURT AND SODOMY LAWS, SANTOM WROTE A 2008 PHILALPHIA INQUIRER LUMN THAT “THE LATT DISTRSG NEWS ME LAST WEEK CALIFORNIA. THE STATE SUPREME COURT THERE LED, 4-3, THAT SAME-SEX UPL N MARRY.” SANTOM WENT ON TO SAY, “IS ANYONE SAYG SAME-SEX UPL N’T LOVE EACH OTHER? I LOVE MY CHILDREN. I LOVE MY IENDS, MY BROTHER. HECK, I EVEN LOVE MY MOTHER--LAW. SHOULD WE LL THE RELATNSHIPS MARRIAGE, TOO?”6. TURF WARSAT ANOTHER IOWA MPAIGN STOP NOVEMBER, SANTOM ENGAGED AN EARNT YOUNG VOTER ON THE ISSUE OF ISRAELI NTROL OF THE WT BANK. “IF THEY WANT TO NEGOTIATE WH ISRAELIS, AND ALL THE PEOPLE WHO LIVE THE WT BANK ARE ISRAELIS, THEY’RE NOT PALTIANS. THERE IS NO ‘PALTIAN,’” SANTOM SAID. “THIS IS ISRAELI LAND.”THE WASHGTON POST NOTED THAT THE MENT WAS REMISCENT OF NEWT GGRICH’S CLAIM THAT THE PALTIANS ARE AN “VENTED PEOPLE.”7. MATERFAIASBLAME ON MOM. IT’S HAPLS SGLE MOTHERS WHO NECSATE THE WELFARE STATE, SANTOM SAID A RAD TERVIEW OCTOBER 2011. AND THE REPUBLIN SOLUTN IS TO GET MORE PEOPLE HCHED, STAT. “LOOK AT THE POLIL BASE OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY: IS SGLE MOTHERS WHO N A HOEHOLD,” SANTOM SAID. “WHY? BEE ’S SO TOUGH ENOMILLY THAT THEY LOOK TO THE ERNMENT FOR HELP, AND THEREFORE THEY’RE GOG TO VOTE. SO IF YOU WANT TO RCE THE DEMOCRATIC ADVANTAGE, WHAT YOU WANT TO DO IS BUILD TWO-PARENT FAI, YOU ELIMATE THAT SIRE FOR ERNMENT.”8. FRANPHILE? NON.IN SANTOM’S MD, THE RELATNSHIP BETWEEN FRANCE AND AMERI ISN’T A LONG AND GLOR ONE GOG BACK TO THE MARQUIS LAFAYETTE AND FURTHER. NOPE. WE LAND AT NORMANDY, AND NOW THEY OWE . IN ANOTHER PHILALPHIA INQUIRER LUMN 2009, SANTOM WROTE: “WATCHG PRINT OBAMA APOLOGIZE LAST WEEK FOR AMERI’S ARROGANCE—BEFORE A FRENCH DIENCE THAT OW S EEDOM TO THE SACRIFIC OF AMERINS—HELPED NVCE ME THAT HE HAS A EP-SEATED ANTIPATHY TOWARD AMERIN VALU AND TRADNS.” 9. CHOOSG HIS BATTLIN A FEBARY 2004 ARTICLE THE MORNG CALL, AN ALLENTOWN, PA., NEWSPAPER, SANTOM (CED THE ARTICLE AS “THE SENATE’S NO. 3 GOP LEAR”) SAID GAY MARRIAGE “IS AN ISSUE JT LIKE 9/11. WE DIDN’T CI WE WANTED TO FIGHT THE WAR ON TERRORISM BEE WE WANTED TO. IT WAS BROUGHT TO . AND IF NOT NOW, WHEN? WHEN THE SUPREME URTS ALL THE OTHER STAT HAVE SUCCUMBED TO THE MASSACHETTS VERSN OF THE LAW?”10. DS VULTLIBERALS HAVE BEEN FIDDLG WH MEDIEVAL HISTORY, SANTOM ALLEGED AT AN APPEARANCE SPARTANBURG, S.C., FEBARY 2011. “THE IA THAT THE CSAS AND THE FIGHT OF CHRISTENDOM AGAST ISLAM IS SOMEHOW AN AGGRSN ON OUR PART IS ABSOLUTELY ANTI-HISTORIL,” SANTOM SAID. “AND THAT IS WHAT THE PERCEPTN IS BY THE AMERIN LEFT, WHO HAT CHRISTENDOM.” THE DAILY BEAST
• SANTOM: PRISONER OF THE GAYS
• SANTOM SAYS HE'S BARELY MENTNED GAY RIGHTS
• YOUNG PEOPLE WON'T STOP ASKG RICK SANTOM ABOUT GAY RIGHTS
• SANTOM: GAY MUNY ON ‘JIHAD’ AGAST ME FOR STANCE ON MARRIAGE

10 OUTRAGEO THGS RICK SANTOM HAS SAIDOUTBURSTSAS RICK SANTOM SURG NATNAL POLLS, THE DAILY BEAST ROUNDS UP 10 OF HIS CRAZIT STATEMENTS.THE DAILY BEASTUPDATED JUL. 13, 2017 11:37AM EDT / PUBLISHED FEB. 20, 2012 10:32AM EST ERIC GAY / AP PHOTOSTHERE ARE POLICIANS WHO MAKE GAFF, AND THEN THERE’S RICK SANTOM. THE FORMER PENNSYLVANIA SENATOR AND REPUBLIN PRINTIAL NTENR HAS GAED RPECT OM SOME NSERVATIV FOR WHAT THEY SEE AS A POLICIAN STICKG TO HIS GUNS, BUT OTHERS THK HE’S JT A FEW KNIGHTS TEMPLAR SHORT OF A HOLY WAR. FROM PRINTIAL PROSTRATNS TO MEDIEVAL AGGRSN, THE DAILY BEAST ROUNDS UP SANTOM’S KOOKIT UTTERANC. 1. CANE LOV’THIS ONE HAS FOLLOWED SANTOM FOR NEARLY A . IN A 2003 TERVIEW WH THE ASSOCIATED PRS, SANTOM ARGUED THAT IF THE SUPREME COURT STCK DOWN SODOMY LAWS AND ALLOWED PEOPLE TO PERFORM HOMOSEXUAL ACTS THEIR OWN HOM, THOANDS OF YEARS OF CIVILIZATN WOULD GO OUT THE WDOW. MARRIAGE AS AN STUTN THAT EXISTS ONLY BETWEEN A MAN AND A WOMAN MT BE UPHELD, HE SAID. “IN EVERY SOCIETY, THE FN OF MARRIAGE HAS NOT EVER TO MY KNOWLEDGE CLUD HOMOSEXUALY,” SANTOM SAID. “THAT’S NOT TO PICK ON HOMOSEXUALY. IT’S NOT, YOU KNOW, MAN ON CHILD, MAN ON DOG, OR WHATEVER THE SE MAY BE.”2. AMERI’S TROJAN HORSE IN A EEWHEELG TERVIEW WH NSERVATIVE BLOG LAST OCTOBER, CANDIDATE RICK SPENT A GOOD AL OF TIME RHAPSODIZG ABOUT WHAT PRINT RICK WOULD DO ABOUT NTRACEPTN AND SEXUAL ETHICS. “ONE OF THE THGS I WILL TALK ABOUT, THAT NO PRINT HAS TALKED ABOUT BEFORE, IS I THK THE DANGERS OF NTRACEPTN THIS UNTRY,” SANTOM SAID. “MANY OF THE CHRISTIAN FAH HAVE SAID, WELL, THAT’S OK; NTRACEPTN IS OK. IT’S NOT OK. IT’S A LICENSE TO DO THGS A SEXUAL REALM THAT IS UNTER TO HOW THGS ARE SUPPOSED TO BE.”3. PENNY FOR HIS THOUGHTSAT A JANUARY MPAIGN STOP IOWA, SANTOM TOOK ON ENTLEMENT REFORM. HE TOOK CRICISM FOR HIS REMARKS WHEN HE TOLD A MONOCHROMATIC IOWA DIENCE, “I DON’T WANT TO MAKE BLACK PEOPLE’S LIV BETTER BY GIVG THEM SOMEBODY ELSE’S MONEY. I WANT TO GIVE THEM THE OPPORTUNY TO GO OUT AND EARN MONEY.”4. FACE PLANTIN AN APPEARANCE ON GRETA VAN STEREN’S FOX NEWS SHOW MARCH 2010, SANTOM WAS ASKED WHETHER PRINT OBAMA SHOULD LAY A TRIP ABROAD OR STAY WASHGTON AND HASH OUT A ROLUTN TO THE BATE OVER HEALTH-RE REFORM. BSHG ASI THE HEALTH-RE ISSUE, SANTOM SAID, “I THK THE DEMOCRATS ARE ACTUALLY WORRIED HE [OBAMA] MAY GO TO INDONIA AND BOW TO MORE MLIMS.”5. KISSG KRETURNG TO THE TOPIC OF THE SUPREME COURT AND SODOMY LAWS, SANTOM WROTE A 2008 PHILALPHIA INQUIRER LUMN THAT “THE LATT DISTRSG NEWS ME LAST WEEK CALIFORNIA. THE STATE SUPREME COURT THERE LED, 4-3, THAT SAME-SEX UPL N MARRY.” SANTOM WENT ON TO SAY, “IS ANYONE SAYG SAME-SEX UPL N’T LOVE EACH OTHER? I LOVE MY CHILDREN. I LOVE MY IENDS, MY BROTHER. HECK, I EVEN LOVE MY MOTHER--LAW. SHOULD WE LL THE RELATNSHIPS MARRIAGE, TOO?”6. TURF WARSAT ANOTHER IOWA MPAIGN STOP NOVEMBER, SANTOM ENGAGED AN EARNT YOUNG VOTER ON THE ISSUE OF ISRAELI NTROL OF THE WT BANK. “IF THEY WANT TO NEGOTIATE WH ISRAELIS, AND ALL THE PEOPLE WHO LIVE THE WT BANK ARE ISRAELIS, THEY’RE NOT PALTIANS. THERE IS NO ‘PALTIAN,’” SANTOM SAID. “THIS IS ISRAELI LAND.”THE WASHGTON POST NOTED THAT THE MENT WAS REMISCENT OF NEWT GGRICH’S CLAIM THAT THE PALTIANS ARE AN “VENTED PEOPLE.”7. MATERFAIASBLAME ON MOM. IT’S HAPLS SGLE MOTHERS WHO NECSATE THE WELFARE STATE, SANTOM SAID A RAD TERVIEW OCTOBER 2011. AND THE REPUBLIN SOLUTN IS TO GET MORE PEOPLE HCHED, STAT. “LOOK AT THE POLIL BASE OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY: IS SGLE MOTHERS WHO N A HOEHOLD,” SANTOM SAID. “WHY? BEE ’S SO TOUGH ENOMILLY THAT THEY LOOK TO THE ERNMENT FOR HELP, AND THEREFORE THEY’RE GOG TO VOTE. SO IF YOU WANT TO RCE THE DEMOCRATIC ADVANTAGE, WHAT YOU WANT TO DO IS BUILD TWO-PARENT FAI, YOU ELIMATE THAT SIRE FOR ERNMENT.”8. FRANPHILE? NON.IN SANTOM’S MD, THE RELATNSHIP BETWEEN FRANCE AND AMERI ISN’T A LONG AND GLOR ONE GOG BACK TO THE MARQUIS LAFAYETTE AND FURTHER. NOPE. WE LAND AT NORMANDY, AND NOW THEY OWE . IN ANOTHER PHILALPHIA INQUIRER LUMN 2009, SANTOM WROTE: “WATCHG PRINT OBAMA APOLOGIZE LAST WEEK FOR AMERI’S ARROGANCE—BEFORE A FRENCH DIENCE THAT OW S EEDOM TO THE SACRIFIC OF AMERINS—HELPED NVCE ME THAT HE HAS A EP-SEATED ANTIPATHY TOWARD AMERIN VALU AND TRADNS.” 9. CHOOSG HIS BATTLIN A FEBARY 2004 ARTICLE THE MORNG CALL, AN ALLENTOWN, PA., NEWSPAPER, SANTOM (CED THE ARTICLE AS “THE SENATE’S NO. 3 GOP LEAR”) SAID GAY MARRIAGE “IS AN ISSUE JT LIKE 9/11. WE DIDN’T CI WE WANTED TO FIGHT THE WAR ON TERRORISM BEE WE WANTED TO. IT WAS BROUGHT TO . AND IF NOT NOW, WHEN? WHEN THE SUPREME URTS ALL THE OTHER STAT HAVE SUCCUMBED TO THE MASSACHETTS VERSN OF THE LAW?”10. DS VULTLIBERALS HAVE BEEN FIDDLG WH MEDIEVAL HISTORY, SANTOM ALLEGED AT AN APPEARANCE SPARTANBURG, S.C., FEBARY 2011. “THE IA THAT THE CSAS AND THE FIGHT OF CHRISTENDOM AGAST ISLAM IS SOMEHOW AN AGGRSN ON OUR PART IS ABSOLUTELY ANTI-HISTORIL,” SANTOM SAID. “AND THAT IS WHAT THE PERCEPTN IS BY THE AMERIN LEFT, WHO HAT CHRISTENDOM.” THE DAILY BEAST

In a 2003 terview wh The Associated Prs, Santom argued that if the Supreme Court stck down sodomy laws and allowed people to perform homosexual acts their own hom, thoands of years of civilizatn would go out the wdow. “In every society, the fn of marriage has not ever to my knowledge clud homosexualy, ” Santom said. “That’s not to pick on homosexualy.

SANTOM: PRISONER OF THE GAYS

3 GOP lear”) said gay marriage “is an issue jt like 9/11.

After he ma wily publicized homophobic remarks, notably parg homosexualy to btialy, the term santom was an vented and spread as an ironic slang term—referrg to a mixture of lube and fel matter that n rult om anal sex—to pillory him.

This posn brought him to higher promence natnal polics—and directed more attentn toward his public statements, cludg his ntroversial 2003 ments on gayns, as we’ll shortly addrs.

SANTOM SAYS HE'S BARELY MENTNED GAY RIGHTS

Santom remarked: “If the Supreme Court says that you have the right to nsensual [gay] sex wh your home, then you have the right to bigamy, you have the right to polygamy, you have the right to ct, you have the right to adultery. ” Santom elsewhere claimed that legalizg beg gay would create precent for legal unns such as “man on child” or “man on dog” sex.

YOUNG PEOPLE WON'T STOP ASKG RICK SANTOM ABOUT GAY RIGHTS

In an advice lumn for The Stranger, Savage suggted attachg Santom‘s name to an act or element of gay sex to “memorialize” his homophobic ments. The slang is ed both as a direct gibe at Santom and unrelated pictns of gay sex.

SANTOM: GAY MUNY ON ‘JIHAD’ AGAST ME FOR STANCE ON MARRIAGE

However, given s history, is more likely to appear ntexts challengg Santom and those who share his homophobic views by makg them feel unfortable about (perfectly normal) gay sex.

Equatg gay marriage to lovg your mother--lawQuote: "Is anyone sayg same-sex upl n't love each other? " (Santom's Philalphia Inquirer lumn, May 22, 2008)Reactn: Did noted "homophobe" Santom jt adm to a "weird sexual relatnship wh his mother--law" and brother?