Here’s a glimpse of what we could expect if somehow all other candidates were rendered incapacitated and Rick Santorum managed to win the White House:
At a campaign event at a bowling alley in Wisconsin today, GOP presidential hopeful Rick Santorum told a boy who reached for a pink bowling ball: “You’re not gonna use the pink ball. We’re not gonna let you do that. Not on camera.” Santorum went on to say “Friends don’t let friends use pink balls.” The comments were tweeted by Reuters reporter Sam Youngman.
“This is another example of Rick Santorum intentionally making ignorant statements that have a real impact on LGBT people,” said HRC Vice President of Communications Fred Sainz. “Whether he’s comparing our marriages to inanimate objects, saying our children would be better off with a parent in prison as opposed to two loving same-sex parents, or calling open military service a ‘tragic social experiment;’ he’s proven that he thinks LGBT people are second-class citizens not worthy of dignity or respect. In this case, he’s advancing tired gender norms by implying a boy should be ashamed or embarrassed to use a certain color bowling ball.”
Hi, do you know what’s weird? The kid probably was just grabbing whichever ball was there. Regardless of who the kid grows up to be, it seems that he wasn’t completely FREAKED OUT the way purported adult Rick Santorum was over the idea of a male human using a pink bowling ball.
Also, it was a very Republican thing of Rick Santorum to say when he clarified that it was not okay to use a pink bowling ball “on camera,” which I assume means it’s okay if you’re off camera, if you know what I mean and I think you do.
[h/t John Aravosis]
What a bottomless pit of stupid Santorum is.
…Still waiting news about his Rent Boy scandal, which pretty much should be any day, now.
Am I the only one giggling at “Friends don’t let friends use pink balls”?
We all know Santorum prefers his balls blue.
No, he doesn’t care what color the balls are, as long as they have a nice cock ring wrapped around them.
You go, Wayne! That really cracked my husband and me up!
Santorum is an idiot. Like some little kid’s using a pink bowling ball will make him gay. Yeesh. What a maroon!
Less than a hundred years ago, pink was the boys color and blue the girls color. Pink was seen as aggressive and blue as calm
I thought his whole deal was that gender roles are permanent, fixed, handed down by God 6,000 years ago.
Has no one ever told him that until about a century ago pink was the preferred color for little boys, being simply a form of red? You’d think he would know this as a Catholic- after all, blue was for little girls, because it symbolized the Virgin Mary.
Wait- that would imply he actually thought about his beliefs. Sorry folks, I got carried away.
Does he even realize that he has the mentality of a sixth grader?
Organized religion really is nothing but poison.
Santorum is just full of…. Santorum!
Just exactly the sort of thing I would expect from Santorum. God help us if he or someone like him should be elected.
The average person, who may not be as attentive to these matters as we are, would surely be stunned to learn that this story is NOT from The Onion.