Karen Santorum has stepped into the spotlight in South Carolina, speaking at length for the first time during the presidential campaign of her husband, Rick Santorum.
We wish she’d kept her mouth shut.
After taking a question from a woman trying to reconcile being a Santorum supporter with having a gay son who’s been told of Santorum’s shoddy record with the LGBT community.
“It makes me very sad what the gay activists have done out there,” Karen said at a rally in Myrtle Beach, according to the National Journal. “They’ve vilified him. And it’s so wrong. Rick doesn’t hate anyone. He loves them. What he has simply said is marriage shouldn’t happen [between gay people].”
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The Santorums’ daughter Elizabeth has said practically the same thing about her father’s bigotry: “It’s a policy thing, he thinks this is the right thing for America and the foundations of our country,” she explained in a recent HuffPo interview. “People are entitled to live the way they want, but to project those values and say those are the best values for our country are a different thing.”
And Rick spat out almost the identical wording at the rally: “This is public policy difference,” he said, “And the problem is some see that public policy difference as a personal assault.”
Good to see the Santorums have all rehearsed their lines together.
Ironically, Mrs. Santorum hasn’t always been lockstep with Rick when it comes to social issues: When she was 22 and single, Karen Garver shacked up with a 63-year-old doctor Tom Allen, who routinely performed abortions as part of his practice.
It gets worse. As The Daily Beast reports:
Her live-in partner through most of her 20s was Tom Allen, a Pittsburgh obstetrician and abortion provider 40 years older than she, who remains an outspoken crusader for reproductive rights and liberal ideals. Dr. Allen has known Mrs. Santorum, born Karen Garver, her entire life: he delivered her in 1960.
Oh there’s nothing creepy about that. Nosiree!
Photo via Gage Skidmore
hyhybt
If this is love, let’s try hatred instead. See if it’s better.
Bob
Ha! We already know that Karen, the only one who doesn’t, is your Husband. Come out, come out Ricky.
Jim Hlavac
The man has called for our incarceration, forced “cure” and some bizarre conversion to his brand of theology, or else! — if that’s love — wait, it ain’t. It’s unbridled hatred. He and his church have called us “evil” and a “threat” to families (presumably our own included,) and “a danger to society.” That is not “love.” Apparently not only do the Santorums don’t know what love is — but they are so beyond reason that they think our mere defense of ourselves against his hate is an attack upon him. Not a gay man would say a word about this creep if he wasn’t out to eliminate us from this earth. You know, I don’t care if someone hates me — but please, spare me the nonsense.
Daez
“People are entitled to live the way they want, but to project those values and say those are the best values for our country are a different thing.”
Now, if someone said this about the religious community, which it should apply to, Daddy Ricky would be all sorts of pissed off.
the crustybastard
What’s love got to do with it?
I love dogs, but I don’t think dogs should be permitted to vote because they demonstrably and empirically lack the capacity to make informed political decisions.
So I don’t give a shit whether Santorum loves gay people or not. It’s not relevant to the legal issue. Santorum says gay people should be denied their fundamental, Constitutional and civil right to marry the partner of their choice “because Jesus,” or “because we’ve always done it that way.”
However, neither is a legal argument. Hell, they aren’t even arguments, they’re just assertions. They’re certainly not the reasoned basis for the government to deny a minority’s rights.
I don’t want Rick Santorum’s love. I want my rights.
Mike UK
perhaps they all sleep with an ipod playing the answers the all the questions that might arise should they be asked, hence why they are all basically giving the same answer!
Spike
Yet again another frothy mix of lube and fecal matter, this time coming from the female Santorum . . . but the same result, a brown wet smelly mess.
SebX
Don’t you guys get it? he loves us as long as we are second class citizens in our won little ghettos where we can’t destroy society, rape children or fart rainbows as we all usually do. It’s not his fault following the teachings of an ancient book and the voices he hears in his head. 🙂
tjr101
You gotta hand it to conservatives, they know how to drag words like family, values, morals, fiscal responsibility and now love through the gutter.
Ian
Ahh, those happy freaky creepy conservative christofascists are such a goofy bunch…
TASTEY GOODIES
What about the divorce rate? Around 60%? If so, then I wonder about all those religious holy unions going 2 crap and how divorce destroys families and how it turns a child’s world upside down.Yeah, the US is founded on a 40% success rate. Where are the values there, I wonder?
mark Segal
you mean 4th place santorum
Jill
Having sex with the person who delivered you as a baby. Seems perverted. When will the HBO movie be out.