I do have to congratulate Mariposa on her post but I am going back and looking at the sources.
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http://caffeinatedthoughts.com/2011/...acturing-jobs/ Rick Santorum was talking about the role of government when it came to family. His thoughts just before the above quote was he didn't think that government had any role in issuing contraceptives. He personally gave his thought on contraception. He thought that using sex only for pleasure diminished the act of love making. That is his personal view. You comments are about government's role in ensuring people (women) have contraception. When did it become the role of government to insert itself into our sex lives. It seems to me that Santorum is guilty of getting government OUT of our bedrooms.
He also made several comments in this interview about the importance of family and children so he is not anti-sex. He says that people should be responsible for themselves and that includes their sex lives. Children are purposely disadvantaged by being born into a single parent home. The statistics back this up. The entire interview is 44 minutes and covers many topics.
2. A lot of people have tried to figure out why in the 1950s a father could provide wholely for his family but since the 1980s it takes two incomes to provide for a family. A lot of people, including women, would like to be able to "make it" on only one income. Santorum was talking about the radicalization of feminism. That only a woman who worked had value in society. Later it a woman who worked and still took care of her children was worthwhile. A woman who "only" raised children was a second class citizen. Even Barbara Walters agreed with this on the view.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5NmbVDEsLM
3. Do we really care what the Europeans did 800 years ago? Santorum is a lawyer and not a historian. If Gringrich said stuff like this I would be concerned about what he is teaching. The feudal Europeans killed a lot of people including themselves (look up the Children's Crusade). They killed Muslims in the Holy Land and they were behind the Inquisition in Europe where they killed Jews. The Muslims invaded Europe so like the domino theory the Europeans did have cause to worry.
4. By Palestinian I suspect you mean those people who live in Palestine or lived in Palestine before the state of Israel was created. That would be the Jews, the Arabs, the Bedouin, the Hittites, the Canaanites, etc. We call them Israelis because they live in Israel. Since there is no Palestine then there are no Palestinians. The Arabs who lived in Israel in 1947 were invited to live in Israel but the Grand Mufti (their spiritual leader) ordered them to leave Israel and to return with guns to kill Jews. This failed and many of these Arabs immigrated to Jordan where they were massacred in 1970 by the king. There are no ethnic Palestinians. It is a political label to advance an agenda.
5. The assertion that some people have suspicions about Mormons is very apparently true. Whether they are right or wrong there are suspicions. So the point is for Santorum on content.
6. I would sure like to hear the question that got that response. If the questioner asked about black people then that would be in the answer. So if it is racism that Santorum used the word black then I guess Howard Dean is a racist (when talking about hotel staffers, he referred to them collectively as black people) and many democrats are racist (whenever the subject of welfare comes up, democrats always respond as if these are attacks on black people instead of welfare). So I need to hear the question.
7. The American version of abortion has racial overtones as a black baby is far more likely to be aborted than a white baby. Obama just seems to like abortion. Recall that it was state legislaturer Obama who opposed an Illinois law that stated if a baby survived an abortion then all means were to be used to save it's life. This came from a case where a baby was aborted alive. It survived for almost six hours in a basinet in a closet where it was placed to die. Nurses broke down in tears as they were told to render no assistance. The child would have survived if given an assistance that a regular birth would have recieved. Obama said an abortion creates a dead fetus and that is what must happen. In the local area a woman killed another woman and cut our her baby. The local Amber alert for a few hours would not issue an alert because since the child was not "born" then it didn't qualify. I agree with Santorum that Obama is very pro-abortion as evidenced by his demand that Catholic hospitals provide them.
8. What Santorum did was to postulate the slippery slope theory. If it becomes okay for gay marriage then what's next? There are cases where activists have said that their own curious predilections must be recognized; NAMBLA for starters. I ask the people on this site, do you believe in grown men having sex with young boys? Their slogan is "sex before eight or it's too late". They have a tax payer supported office in the UN. Your tax dollars go to their upkeep.
9. Once again, what was the question that lead to this response? I just went through about eight pages on Google and all of them show this quote with an ellipsis signifing that something was spoken before but none of them show what that is.
The complete quote:
"SANTORUM: We have laws in states, like the one at the Supreme Court right now, that has sodomy laws and they were there for a purpose. Because, again, I would argue, they undermine the basic tenets of our society and the family. And if the Supreme Court says that you have the right to consensual sex within your home, then you have the right to bigamy, you have the right to polygamy, you have the right to incest, you have the right to adultery. You have the right to anything. Does that undermine the fabric of our society? I would argue yes, it does. It all comes from, I would argue, this right to privacy that doesn't exist in my opinion in the United States Constitution, this right that was created, it was created in Griswold — Griswold was the contraceptive case — and abortion. And now we're just extending it out. And the further you extend it out, the more you — this freedom actually intervenes and affects the family. You say, well, it's my individual freedom. Yes, but it destroys the basic unit of our society because it condones behavior that's antithetical to strong healthy families. Whether it's polygamy, whether it's adultery, where it's sodomy, all of those things, are antithetical to a healthy, stable, traditional family.
Every society in the history of man has upheld the institution of marriage as a bond between a man and a woman. Why? Because society is based on one thing: that society is based on the future of the society. And that's what? Children. Monogamous relationships. In every society, the definition of marriage has not ever to my knowledge included homosexuality. That's not to pick on homosexuality. It's not, you know, man on child, man on dog, or whatever the case may be. It is one thing. And when you destroy that you have a dramatic impact on the quality —"
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washing...-excerpt_x.htm
Santorum was talking legal precedent.
Amazing what you can find when you have the entire quote from a better source than gay weekly.
My own personal take on Santorum is that he does use too many expressions of religion. Do I think that he could turn his personal views into law? No. I look at Obama's personal views on wealth, health, and society and it scares me what he was able to accomplish with a willing press and complete control of the Congress for two years. Only his incompetence kept him from doing more.