Florida Mom Confronts Santorum Over Gay Son's Rights

[William769]

During a campaign stop in Florida, Rick Santorum told a mother that her gay son doesn't have the right to adopt children.

"I'm a proud mother of a gay son graduating from Georgetown law in May," the woman said during a campaign rally in Stuart, according to a video posted by ThinkProgress. "I want to know why he can't have the same rights as you have?"

He said a child has a right to have a mother and father, inferring that lesbian and gay people don't have the right to adopt children.

"Every American child has the right, and the government should support the right, to have and know their mother and father and be raised by their mother and father,” he said, according to the Palm Beach Post.

http://www.advocate.com/News/Daily_News/2012/01/25/Florida_Mom_Confronts_Rick_Santorum_Over_Her_Gay_Son_Rights/

[msongs]

1. Santorum shoving his religion down everyone's throat as usual. nt

[orpupilofnature57]

2. He never read about Jesus

condeming anyone for being Gay or a Lesbian or from being parents ,only the love that should be worthy of each other ,parents and children.All they hear is and spew is judgement ,no love .

[HockeyMom]

3. My WIDOWED Grandma raised two kids

No father from the time they were 2 and 6. What would be his answer to that? Widows should rush out and marry again just to have a father in the house? Would he tell that to 9/11 and War widows too?

The man is INSANE. I can tell you what Grandma used to say, "NO man is better than a BAD man". That is what she would have told Santicmonium regarding his a father in PRISON is better than no father at all. BTW, Grandma was born in 1900.

[pacalo]

4. I would have responded to that with, "But you're not God & it's not your place to make moral

judgments. It's your job as a public servant to create laws that treat all citizens equally as directed in the Constitution."

[David__77]

5. The identification as gay-fixated is a big strike against him.

Obviously he cannot win the nomination. He doesn't strike me as a Ron Paul "principles candidate" so what's he doing anyway?

[ellisonz]

6. Asshole. n/t