Running neck-and-neck with Mitt Romney according to a new national poll of Republican primary voters, Rick Santorum spent Monday campaigning in Washington state, where primary voters head to the polls March 3 and where Gov. Chris Gregoire signed into law a marriage equality bill during an exuberant ceremony yesterday at the state capitol.
During his swing through the state that President Obama carried in 2008 with 57.5% of the vote, Santorum met with a group of conservative religious leaders in a closed-door meeting to push for repeal of the marriage law, which is scheduled to go into effect June 7.
“We have a serious issue about trying to get moms and dads to marry and stay together,” Santorum told the Seattle Times. “I don't see this as encouraging that. I think that at least from my perspective it tends to water down marriage instead of encouraging men and women to form healthy marriages, and that to me should be the objective of the government because that is in the best interests of our society."
The newspaper reported that during a Monday night rally in Tacoma, Santorum sparred with protesters, as he has done many times on the campaign trail when confronted by marriage equality supporters. Police removed two protesters after continued disruptions (read the storyhere).
A New York Times/CBS News poll released this morning shows 30% of GOP primary voters said they supported Santorum, compared to 27% for Romney.
The rights of all
Mr. Rick Santorum,I am in shock that you want to be in the highest place of this FREE country and still want to take away the rights of some. I say you need to think about the document called The Declaration of Independence....This gives you the right to be free and do what you want as long as its with in the legal rims of this country. Yet you want to still take away someone's right to love you are saying we (LGBT) can't love and have no rights to be equal with your way of living. I work very hard and I don't steal, nor do drugs, I'm respectful to others, I help out when Im needed and sometimes when I'm not asked to help I still help. I believe in God and try to follow his "golden rules of life". I have a family with two kids they both respect others and their feelings. My life and whom I choose to live my life with should not be held as an illegal law to you nor this country. I was born here and have the same rights as you. If you think I am not worthy to have the same rights as you.....heres something to think about.......If you had brown hair and they wouldn't let you run for any office unless you had blond hair how would you feel? I wasn't going to use this but here's another view being you seem to be anti-woman, (you seem to think women belong in the house and been seen and not heard). What if because you had a penis and not a vagina and they would not let you in a Mall to shop or better yet they wouldnt let you vote.Mr. Santorum I will tell you this your views on our Country and the way you view women is a disgrace to our growning Nation, and with this said I will tell you now, I know my family is just one family, but we are votes you will not be getting.. The End
Rick Santorum is scary!
So I am from Canada, where of course it is legal for gays and lesbians to marry, and I have been following your Republican election. I am absolutely SHOCKED that someone who represents what he does has a chance to be the next President of the United States!! When I first saw his campaign commercials online I thought they were a joke on his reals ones.....nope they were his actual commercials. I finally thought that the U.S. was making steps towards marriage equality and it really disappoints me to see this guy getting support. Lastly, good luck to all you LGBT people in the U.S, get people out there to vote so this psycho doesn't end up in office :)
marriage equality
i'm sorry but i missed the day you were made the person in charge of determining what is in the best interest of society. in any event, marriage equality strengthens our society in that it encourages monogamy and the creation of families that truely want children while acknowledging that some couples may want family but do not want children. one more thing about gay men and lesbians is that they can't get pregnant on accident, all children resulting from these unions KNOW they were planned and wanted.
marriage equality
I must have missed that day too. You are right marriage equality will only strengthen our society and encourage monogamy. He doesn't even know about us. All he wants to do is criticise us when all we want to do is live our lives and not bother about people like him.
Rick Santorum is a very scary
Rick Santorum is a very scary man and the thought of him as President is horrible. How do we as lesbian women and gay men affect a heterosexul marriage and cause them to not have stable relationships? We are just people folks. We are mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers, your sons and daughters who love someone who happens to be of the same sex. We just want to have our relationships legal like everyone else. It seems heterosexual people are more concerned with what they THINK we do than who we are as people.
Straight people will not stop having sex and getting married
The end.
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