From Raw Story:
On May 24, Republican Senator Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania appeared on the nationally syndicated radio show, “Janet Parshall’s America,” to discuss the Federal Marriage Amendment (FMA), a bill that would amend the Constitution to ban same-sex marriage.
During the broadcast, Santorum called same-sex marriage “harmful to our country,” mocked the term “alternative lifestyles” and described the FMA as a means “to counter what Hollywood is purveying to our young people.”
He pointed to the film Brokeback Mountain as an example of insidious homosexual influence in popular culture.
While Parshall and Santorum acknowledged the FMA’s bleak prospect of passing a full Senate vote, Parshall cast the bill as an attempt to “speak back to the culture.” Santorum agreed, declaring that the debate over the FMA would be “an opportunity for us to get beyond, you know, ‘We should treat people nicely.'”
There are people that shouldn’t be treated nicely. Nazis, for example, should be dealt with harshly. Pederasts don’t deserve to be treated nicely. But, gay people? They don’t deserve to be treated nicely? Really, Rick? How about homophobes?
