Santorum Draws Boos From College Crowd for Opposing Gay Marriage
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[QUOTE] Rick Santorum anticipated he would be pressed on his conservative views on same-sex marriage and legalizing marijuana, and the college crowd in Concord, New Hampshire, didn’t disappoint him.
“I’m surprised I got a gay marriage question at a college crowd,” he joked. “Really that’s a shock to me.”
For the most part, his audience yesterday was booing, not laughing, particularly when Santorum compared gay marriage to polygamy. The gathering was billed as a forum for college students and was held at a conference center.
Santorum’s remarks sparked a contentious back and forth between the candidate and the college students during the course of an almost hour-long question and answer session.
“Well what about three men?,” Santorum responded to a female student who asked him about his position on gay marriage. “If reason says that if you think it’s OK for two, then you have to differentiate with me as to why it’s not OK for three.”
Santorum initially welcomed the exchanges with several students. Then he tried to move on to other subjects as the audience interrupted and cheered the questioners. The former Pennsylvania senator said he welcomed the state’s legalization of same-sex marriage because it was decided by the legislature.
[B]Defending Marriage[/B]
Still, he defended his position to keep marriage a union between a man and a woman: “Because I believe we are made the way God made man and woman and man and woman come together to have a union to produce children which keeps civilization going and provide the best environment for children to be raised,” Santorum said. “I think that is something society should value and should give privileged status over a group of people who want to have a relationship together.”
The reception was an anomaly of sorts for Santorum, who arrived in New Hampshire last night to large and receptive crowds fresh off his second-place finish in the Iowa caucuses.
At his other events yesterday, Santorum connected with his audiences, focusing on his economic prescriptions and his personal narrative of coming from a Catholic, working-class family with immigrant grandparents.
[B]Medical Marijuana[/B]
About 40 minutes into the questions, the audience clapped when another student asked Santorum whether, as president, he would allow state gay marriage and medical marijuana laws to operate without federal government interference.
“I don’t believe that we can have 50 definitions of marriage,” Santorum said. “Just to say that we should have 50 definitions of what life is. I don’t think that works either. I think there are certain things that are essential elements of society upon which society rests that we have to have a consensus.”
Pressed on his stance on medical marijuana, Santorum mistakenly identified the drug as a narcotic before being corrected by the audience.
“I don’t know my medical marijuana laws very well,” he joked. Still, he called the drug a hazard to society. When someone shouted at him to explain how he formed that opinion, Santorum said: “I form that opinion from my own life experiences and having experiences. I went to college, too.”
The reference to what he may or may not have done during his days at Pennsylvania State University didn’t quell the boos. The jeering was more pronounced than any applause Santorum received at the end.[/QUOTE]
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I didn't know the "best" was also the "only" way!
yay new hampshire
Read title as: [B]Santorum Draws Boobs For College Crowd for Opposing Gay Marriage[/B]
Presidential candidates trying to push their opinions is much more telling when it's in front of college students who know their shit rather than a Tea Party rally. Santorum isn't very good at it.
So Santorum was speaking to a sane crowd?
I don't even know what to say. Giving equal rights to people shouldn't even be an issue, especially in the US.
[editline]6th January 2012[/editline]
I did love how the crowd called him out a few times though.
[QUOTE=Strike 86;34073900]Read title as: [B]Santorum Draws Boobs For College Crowd for Opposing Gay Marriage[/B][/QUOTE]
Damn, where is that Bad Reading rating when you need it most?
[quote]Still, he defended his position to keep marriage a union between a man and a woman: “Because I believe we are made the way God made man and woman and man and woman come together to have a union to produce children which keeps civilization going and provide the best environment for children to be raised,” Santorum said. “I think that is something society should value and should give privileged status over a group of people who want to have a relationship together.”[/quote]
Fucking disgusting. How Santorum wants to deny basic human rights to a group he doesn't support, for almost entirely no reason, is horrific. I can't understand why [i]anyone remotely sane[/i] would want to vote for someone like him.
[quote]“Well what about three men?,” Santorum responded to a female student who asked him about his position on gay marriage. “If reason says that if you think it’s OK for two, then you have to differentiate with me as to why it’s not OK for three.”[/quote]
it is okay for three, you frothy pile of santorum
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Still, he defended his position to keep marriage a union between a man and a woman: “Because I believe we are made the way God made man and woman and man and woman come together to have a union to produce children which keeps civilization going and provide the best environment for children to be raised,” Santorum said. “I think that is something society should value and should give privileged status over a group of people who want to have a relationship together.”[/quote]
Hey Santorum! Hey, hey, listen. You hear me?
Fuck you!
Never got why his opinion matters. Surely the best thing for a politician is to have no opinion and let the peoples vote decide.
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGzsHURVE7Q&feature=g-all-u&context=G2000b4aFAAAAAAAAEAA[/media]
"Instead of answer your question, I'm going to get around it and try to pull a fast one on you. Problem is that you're all adults"
He compaired gay marriage to polygamy? Why are we against polygamy again? Polygamy, gay marriage is both ok to me.
[QUOTE=Benjimon007;34077031]He compaired gay marriage to polygamy? Why are we against polygamy again? Polygamy, gay marriage is both ok to me.[/QUOTE]
The practical reason (and the only reason I can really understand) is that it screws up a lot of the legal benefits of marriage.
There's also something about slavery, but I don't really know anything about that, so there's not much I can say.
[QUOTE=Benjimon007;34077031]Why are we against polygamy again?[/QUOTE]
Because racists then say that it would allow immigrants (and they believe that all immigrants did it illegally) to marry whole communities and then get through by exploiting the Right to Family Life.
[QUOTE=Benjimon007;34077031]He compaired gay marriage to polygamy? Why are we against polygamy again? Polygamy, gay marriage is both ok to me.[/QUOTE]
Because (and I may be mistaken here) 'polygamy' has a bit of a habit of being synonymous with 'let's exploit and abuse the system to hell and back'.
[QUOTE] I went to college, too.[/QUOTE]
yes and I live on neptune
Take that you fuck. I wanna marry someday.
good job ruining yourself in front of a college crowd
[QUOTE=Sir Whoopsalot;34085678]Because (and I may be mistaken here) 'polygamy' has a bit of a habit of being synonymous with 'let's exploit and abuse the system to hell and back'.[/QUOTE]
Well a lot of things would need to be rewritten if polygamy was to be made legal.
I'm pretty sure you're not forbidden from having sex with multiple people, they just don't want you marrying all of them. It would make divorces a lot more complicated.
College Republicans seem to be a lot better than the older republicans. They're a lot less religiously insane and intolerant
[QUOTE=SomeRandomGuy16;34085907]College Republicans seem to be a lot better than the older republicans. They're a lot less religiously insane and intolerant[/QUOTE]
I can agree. I am one. :v:
[QUOTE=The Baconator;34073820]“Well what about three men?,” Santorum responded to a female student who asked him about his position on gay marriage. “If reason says that if you think it’s OK for two, then you have to differentiate with me as to why it’s not OK for three.”[/QUOTE]
I never got this. Making marriage accommodate three members would entail a much larger change than simply tearing down an arbitrary biological sex barrier.
Still, I don't see this issue with allowing people to engage in the voluntary social contracts as they see fit.
[editline]7th January 2012[/editline]
He also makes Obama look like a saint in comparison.
i hope he has a change of heart after he inevitably loses and makes his own lubricant brand
[QUOTE=Nikota;34075548][media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGzsHURVE7Q&feature=g-all-u&context=G2000b4aFAAAAAAAAEAA[/media]
"Instead of answer your question, I'm going to get around it and try to pull a fast one on you. Problem is that you're all adults"[/QUOTE]
1+1 = 3 in SantorumLogic
Wow, out of a few hundred million people, [b]this[/b] is one of the candidates that was chosen, no one has civic responsibility or gives a shit about the way this country is run.
[QUOTE=SpaceGhost;34089983]Wow, out of a few hundred million people, [b]this[/b] is one of the candidates that was chosen, no one has civic responsibility or gives a shit about the way this country is run.[/QUOTE]
The candidates aren't chosen...
[editline]6th January 2012[/editline]
[QUOTE=Nikota;34075548][media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGzsHURVE7Q&feature=g-all-u&context=G2000b4aFAAAAAAAAEAA[/media]
"Instead of answer your question, I'm going to get around it and try to pull a fast one on you. Problem is that you're all adults"[/QUOTE]
The thing is he's actually kind of right. To allow gay marriage but not polygamy you do have to differentiate them. However, I'm using that argument in a different way; I support making polygamy legal as long as all people are consensual and are aware of the relationship they are in.
I don't find anything wrong with him not supporting gays. It's his opinion and not all of us get off on a bunch of guys marrying each other.
[QUOTE=-Matt-94;34090132]I don't find anything wrong with him not supporting gays. It's his opinion and not all of us get off on a bunch of guys marrying each other.[/QUOTE]
it does matter when this guy wants to not only be president [B]but actually has a chance of becoming so[/B]
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