Where do I begin? This man lives in his own alternate reality, and he's trying to suck the rest of us in with him. This little tirade of his is lunacy!
No one asked the right to change its religious views. What has been asked is that they stop trying to impose their religious views upon the rest of us! They can maintain “traditional marriage” in their churches; doing so is protected by the First Amendment. It's from that same Amendment that the concept of separation of churchand state comes; and in the spirit of the First Amendment I must ask Mr. Santorum and his supporters to cease at once their selfish attempts to cram their god down my throat! I do not want the theocracy that Mr. Santorum seems to so fervently believe he was divinely chosen to bring to the White House. This guy goes on like it's up to him to save the world, if we would only abandon our own belief systems and adopt his. Theocracies are dangerous – take a look at the Middle East. A government ruled by religion is one where the people are free to engage in a tyranny of the majority against the minority.
Santorum accuses the government of being secular, like that's a bad thing. Is he serious? Again, First Amendment, please! He also claims that questioning the pro-equality movement results in being “ostracized from the public square.” If that were true he would have been run out of town years ago!
Here's the bottom line... Denying me the right to marry my partner denies me equal protection under the law and effectively makes me a second-class citizen, and in doing so you cause me harm and denigrate me as a human being. Granting me the right to marry my partner denies you nothing. Nothing! It doesn't change your life one bit. Your rights remain as intact today as they were yesterday and will be tomorrow. So, Mr. Santorum, let me be clear... My intolerance of you is not because of your religion. It is because you are an ignorant and frightened man that irresponsibly spews his hatred without thought or care for consequence and wraps his bigotry in the robes of his church, hiding behind his god while crying victim. Please, just respect “the wall of separation between church and state” and stop trying to deny me my rights.
Oh, and everyone please Google "Santorum".
Here's a transcript of Rick Santorum's remarks regarding the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruling that Proposition 8 is unconstitutional as seen in the video above:
“The Ninth Circuit decision yesterday said that marriage, if you believe in traditional marriage between a man and a woman and exclusively that, you are in fact – the only reason you could possibly believe that is because you are a bigot. There is no rational basis for you to have marriage as an institution between man and woman. There's no, NO, rational basis. Your belief of marriage between a man and a woman is purely irrational based on hatred and bigotry. That's what they just wrote. Four thousand years of human history... Irrational hatred and bigotry toward a group of people is the only reason you could possibly be for marriage between a man and a woman. Now, where's the tolerance in that? Where's the tolerance of someone having a belief structure that is based in nature, is based in reason, that is based in faith, and to ignore all of that, based in history, based in common sense, but yet all of this is ignored and you are bigots and haters. You are not to be tolerated. And if you think it ends there well just look what happens, look what happens when the government says “Here's the right I'm gonna give you and if you don't play the way we want we're gonna force you to do things you don't wanna do whether your religion says that or not.” This is the intolerance of the left, the intolerance of this secular ideology. It is a religion unto itself. It is just not a biblical based religion. And it is the most intolerant, just like we saw from the days of the atheists in the Soviet Union. It is completely intolerant of descent because they fear descent why? Because the descent comes from folks who use reason, common sense and divine revelation and they want no part of any of those things. They want their world view to be imposed without question, and if you question them you're haters, you're bigots and you should be as a result of that ostracized from the public square.”
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