Santorum Insists On Comparing Marriage Equality To Polygamy In Heated Exchange With Students

[babylonsister]

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Santorum Insists On Comparing Marriage Equality To Polygamy In Heated Exchange With Students

By Faiz Shakir and Igor Volsky on Jan 5, 2012 at 5:00 pm


Addressing a college student convention in Concord, New Hampshire moments ago, Rick Santorum was put on the defensive by numerous members of the audience who pressed him about his opposition to marriage equality. Santorum tried engaging in a Socratic dialogue on gay marriage, parrying the student’s responses with nonsensical theoretical tangents.

“So if you’re not happy unless you’re married to five other people, is that OK?” Santorum asked one student. “Reason says that if you think it’s okay for two {individuals to marry}, then you have to differentiate for me why it’s not okay for three,” he argued later.

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To be clear, Santorum’s offensive and circuitous responses are all meant to reject the natural desire of two same-sex individuals to join in a union and enjoy the same rights as heterosexual couples.

[JoePhilly]

1. So if we let 2 heterosexuals marry ... then we have to allow 5 or more people to marry.

The dude is an idiot.

But please GOD, let him win South Carolina!!!

[southernyankeebelle]

2. I just don't know why people try to talk to this idiot. He believes what he believes. We are not

going to change his mind.

[dimbear]

3. Anything to do with two of his opponents being Mormons? n/t