When contemplating same-sex marriage, it’s important to take into consideration how it might affect straight guys who don’t know any gay people. They really have the best perspective, don’t you think?
Conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt really got to the heart of the debate when he asked Rick Santorum and Ted Cruz to blabber about gay marriage as if it had one single damn thing to do with them. Hugh also asked them if they’d attend the same-sex wedding of a loved one.
Their answers are positively heartwarming — surely just what Jesus would have said.
Rick Santorum’s response was a predictable “no,” couched with some garbage about how it violates his faith but he’d still love the person because he’s a good Christian. Please go home, Rick.
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Ted Cruz tried to tap dance a little, but his response is so clearly indicative of the problem.
So, Ted — would you attend the same-sex wedding of a friend, family member or loved one?
“I have not faced that circumstance. I have not had a loved one have a gay wedding.”
He also doesn’t understand the concept of a hypothetical question, and he does go on to spout this nonsense:
“What the media tries to twist the question of marriage into…is a battle of emotions and personalities. They try and make it say, for example, ‘gosh any conservative must hate people who are gay.’ As you know, that has nothing to do with the operative legal question…I’m a constitutionalist, and under the constitution, from the beginning of this country, marriage has been a question for the states.”
Why would marriage make people emotional, we wonder?
Fellow Republican Christian Marco Rubio also opposes gay marriage and was asked the same question. He was the only one who sounded vaguely human. “If there’s somebody that I love that’s in my life, I don’t necessarily have to agree with their decisions or the decisions they’ve made to continue to love them and participate in important events,” he said.
Listen to the two clips below:
SteveDenver
They are not statesmen and they lack diplomacy because they are hobbled by religion. Any sensible diplomat would respond, “I attend weddings of people I love and respect.” They can’t rise above bigotry.
Desert Boy
Meh. Who cares? Frothy Santorum and Calgary Cruz are homophobes. Of this we know. They will never be the GOP nominee.
onthemark
Ted can deliver the pizza and leave!
Giancarlo85
Why would I care about these clowns? Ted Cruz and Rick Santorum are yesterday’s news. You can’t expect logical and sound responses from republicans.
gjg64
Yeah, but who would invite them in the first place?
jwtraveler
@gjg64: Excellent point! Not I.
I don’t know if I’d even marry a relative of theirs.
Bad Ass Biker
I am not sure about Skanktorum, but pretty sure that little Teddy will eventually get caught with a boy friend or a rent boy.
martinbakman
These guys will never be the Prez. But every dollar they raise is matched by Fed Gov’t. Maybe the Repubs are onto something.
tricky ricky
it is disingenuous for santorum to say he’s a good christian. he’s a hard core rabid opus dei catholic fanatic. he thinks everyone not catholic has a one way ticket to hell.
Maude
@Desert Boy:
Don’t be so sure……the same thing was said (often) about Ronald Reagan who opposed everything gay.
He wouldn’t even OK funds for AIDS victims.
1898
You know, I once asked my uncle that same question. He’s a devout evangelical Christian, and a very conservative Republican. “I know how you feel about this issue… but if I ever got married, would you want to be invited… and if invited, would you attend?” He paused, giving it serious thought, and said “You’re family. Of course I would.”
AtticusBennett
@1898: would you want him there?
rather than asking him “how he feels about this issue”, do you or the rest of your family make it known how you feel about his ignorant bigotry?
like, great, “you’re family” – but he still doesn’t respect you, or the LGBT communities.
why tolerate his bigotry?
as for Santorum – he’s got a gay kid. and he’s likely to carry the boys’ hearse rather than walk him down the aisle.
Glücklich
I was, at first, going to give them the benefit of the doubt and assume that if a gay member of their respective close families were to marry their same-sex partner, they would put politics aside and graciously attend. But then I remembered: I don’t care. I am realist and a typically apathetic American voter. I have become so disengaged from American politics I just do not want to spend one iota of my brain energy paying any attention to what anyone on either side of the aisle says or might do in a hypothetical situation.
You know, I’m glad there is democracy in the U.S. and there are far worse places to live (I don’t know about better – different, sure – but I won’t commit to “better”) but ANOTHER doggammed election is looming, full of the same rosy promises, same claiming of credit, same passing blame, same phishing for scandals and soundbites…it’s the same election every few years; only the names change. And then of course nothing happens. It’s like the Oscars/Globes/Emmys…I just don’t watch anymore out of sheer boredom. Campaign ads, robocalls, surveys. Thank god I live in a doorman building so I’m at least spared the intrusion of door-to-door campaign volunteers.
Unless it comes out she’s stomped a kitten or an owl to death, I’ll *try* to remember to vote for Hillary. By mail. If I’m in town then.
DuMaurier
The thing I agree with Cruz about is that in the context of a presidential candidate, it isn’t about personal choice, it’s about “the operative legal question”–which is to say, where does he stand on legal LGBT equality (and we already know the answer to that), not how he’d RSVP a wedding invite.
My opinion of Rubio–as a potential president–didn’t change an iota because he he said he would attend a “gay wedding”, and if Cruz or Santorum were heroic fighters for equality I wouldn’t care if they wouldn’t go. I can’t stand the gossipy trivialization of politics.
polarisfashion
I’m not inviting any homophobic people to my gay wedding. I don’t want them to ruin the experience.
Desert Boy
@Maude: I think the white bread GOP machine will nominate Jebby Bush.
polarisfashion
@Desert Boy: God I hope not! No more Bush in the White House!
Jim Fortier
Jerks
Andrew Onufryk
Who would invite them anyway?…..if I was related I sure would not
ait10101
I love Rick Santorum; I just hate everything he stands for.
Saint Law
Are Rick Santorum and Ted Cruz getting married?
That’s adorable.
tjr101
As of now it looks like the gay republicans will be running to Rubio, Rand Paul or Jebby, we all know how desperately they want to be loved by the right-wing.
OzJosh
It’s simple, really. These guys are just not very bright. And that’s all the reason you need to never vote for them.
IvanPH
No self-respecting gay person would invite any of these cretins to his or her wedding.
jwtraveler
@OzJosh: No. Cruz is very intelligent. But he’s mean and crazy.
scotshot
@Desert Boy: Do you believe any GOTP candidate will receive the Presidential nomination if they state they support gay rights in any way shape or form?
Mack
They only thing they’ll be attending is Hillary’s Inauguration.
scotshot
@Glücklich: “Bored”, “Apathetic”, “Disengaged “, “I’ll “try” to remember to vote for Hillary”.
People wonder why America is in the shape it’s in, look in the mirror Glücklich.
Giancarlo85
@jwtraveler: No he’s not intelligent. If he was intelligent, he wouldn’t hold the stupid viewpoints he has. He’s about on Dubya’s wave length.
jwtraveler
@Giancarlo85: Just because someone has opinions that you find offensive and despicable, it doesn’t make that person stupid. The world is not black and white. I hope you learn that eventually.
Saint Law
@jwtraveler: The fact you rate the intelligence of a mediocre fanatic like Cruz…is par for the course.
Glücklich
@scotshot: I look in the mirror every day and I’m OK with what I see. I’m putting in writing what many many Americans feel. When I hear of something other than fundraising, gladhanding, and changing one’s tune to pander to whichever audience a candidate is before in the moment…tapdancing around simple yes or no questions to avoid offending potential dollars…maybe I’ll start paying attention again with a modicum less skepticism. I’m 36; I’ve seen my share of presidential election cycles, and my expectations of next year’s are LOW.
Bottom line: I have more important things to do with my time than listen to empty promises which, more than likely, won’t be fulfilled, or which launch expensive, pointless initiatives that won’t affect my personal situation. Catch me on a day when the story’s about me.
Thanks for your feedback and enjoy your day.
ScottOnEarth
What these two absolute idiots don’t realize is how they talk themselves into circles. Spouting about the Constitution and not hating and not discriminating while hiding behind religion. The f-ing U.S. Constitution guarantees equality and they absolutely espouse and advocate discrimination and exclusion, pretending it’s their religious right. Bottom line, they are head-up-their-asses, uptight pricks who choose to discriminate against anyone they don’t understand or to whom they don’t relate. Fossils like these two dicks are a fading breed.