Rick Santorum Takes a Step Toward Running for President

Dan82 · Oct 8, 2010

http://gayrights.change.org/blog/view/rick_santorum_takes_a_step_toward_running_for_president

It feels like Election Day 2008 was just yesterday. Alas, how time flies. Within the next four months, we'll likely know most of the candidates gearing up to run for the GOP Presidential nomination in 2012. And one well-known potential candidate with a tense relationship with the LGBT community looks like he's ready to take the plunge.

That would be former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum, who up until 2008, when he got his clock cleaned while running for re-election, was the third most powerful Republican in the U.S. Senate. Today, Santorum announced the launch of what he calls his Iowa Political Action Committee, and he pledged to donate tens of thousands of dollars to help support conservative political candidates in the Hawkeye State -- particularly candidate who oppose same-sex marriage.

Which brings us to the rather graphic history that Santorum has with the LGBT community. In 2003, then-Sen. Santorum gave a national interview excoriating gays and lesbians for having sex inside their bedrooms. "If the Supreme Court says that you have the right to consensual (gay) 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."

That comment led sex columnist and humorist Dan Savage to put on perhaps the most exciting Internet competition in the history of the Internet...

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Rick Santorum Takes a Step Toward Running for President

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