Rick Santorum has said he objects to
gay marriage because it would “destabilize the family.”
The 53-year-old Santorum made his
remarks to a crowd of supporters in Spencer, Iowa on Tuesday.
Santorum said he doesn't have any
problems with gay people, then added: “But doesn't mean that we
should change the laws of this country, to destabilize the American
family, to change the way we look at religious liberty in this
country, to accommodate a different value structure.”
“It's not about them, it's about
values,” he said. “It's about what America's basic moral values
should be that would be reflected in the law.”
“Laws should try as much as possible
to comport with the higher law and also should comport with what
reason would dictate. And what reason dictates is that children need
mothers and fathers. Some would say, 'Well, through technology,
same-sex couples can have children.' Well they can, through either
adoption, or artificial insemination … but they don't get the
mother and a father.”
Adoption, Santorum argued, should be
for parents “who don't want to raise their children,” not a
system that says, “We are going to deliberately deny a child” a
mother and a father. (The video is embedded in the right panel of
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(Related: Rick
Santorum objects to gay marriage because it would equalize gay
couples.)