More babble came spewing out of Rick Santorum's mouth at a campaign stop at Community Christian Academy in Stuart, Florida on Tuesday, during which he not only told a mother that her a gay son had no right to adopt a child, but that he engaged in "unhealthy activity" that the government should not "promote."
According to ThinkProgress:
“Everybody in America should have the same rights, and I
would agree with that,” Santorum said. “Everyone in America should have
rights that are endowed to them by the Creator, those are unalienable
rights. And your son, just like everyone else here, has those
unalienable rights.”
But, Santorum said, “There are certain things that government
does that gives people privileges in order to promote activity that are
healthy for society and are best for society. And those things we
promote would give people advantages or benefits, government benefits
because we think that is healthy activity. Mothers and fathers
coming together, forming healthy marriages, having children and raising
those children. Every American child has the right, and the government
should support the right to have and know their mother and father and be
raised by their mother and father.”
Santorum has gone on record saying he would outlaw same-sex adoption nationwide by banning same-sex marriage, and Los Angeles Times reported he told a crowd of supporters that, "He found that even fathers in jail who had abandoned their kids were still better than no father at all to have in their children's lives."
Watch a short clip of the exchange below.
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