Rick Santorum is trying to be nuanced with his bigotry, you guys!
Eric Kleefeld of TPM reports:
Could former Sen. Rick Santorum (R-PA), the culture warrior ex-legislator and now potential presidential candidate, be shifting his position to the left on a key issue he used to speak up about: Whether gay sex should be illegal?
Eric.
He goes on to point out Santorum‘s piece in the Des Moines Register this week, where he said this:
Let me first define what we are not talking about. I believe if two adults of the same sex want to have a relationship that is their business. But when they ask society to give that relationship special recognition and privileges, then we should be able to have a rational debate about whether that is good public policy.
We should debate it, he says! But note that the wingnut dogwhistle is still there, in the phrase “special recognition and privileges.” Until gays get our own parking spaces in all public accomodations [in the front], we ain’t talking about “special” anything.
Anyway, Rick Santorum is just pathetically trying to sort of moderate his tone, because he knows that if he wants to salvage any chance of being president*, he has to.
[h/t Tengrain]
*ha ha ha
President Rick Santorum – God could not possibly hate us THAT much! This is a consummate Christian politician who will never not stop giving his evangelical/fundie base what it wants to hear. They literally eat, sleep, and breathe anti-gay anything. Sure, he doesn’t care if you are f*****g your boyfriend. JUST DON’T decide that you want to be HIS equal when it comes to privacy, civil rights, and respect as an American Citizen. No matter what he says, we are so far below him in those darling Christian eyes, that we’ll never be his equal under the law, let alone respected as such by him. AND, of course, let’s remember to use the “special rights” thing against gay people so that those dumb-assed believers of his don’t bother to ever see that THEY already have those “special rights”. That f****r needs to be put in a real down and dirty debate with someone who will call him out on all his bigoted attitudes.
Gianni, you should have written TAX PAYING ‘American Citizen’. We pay the same, but don’t receive back the same.