Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich
campaign events have seen protests in recent days over the
candidates' opposition to gay rights.
Santorum gave a 39-minute speech Sunday
in the ballroom at the Sanford Center in Bemidji, Minnesota. Roughly
560 people showed up to hear what the GOP presidential candidate had
to say.
According to the Bemidji
Pioneer, protesters opposed to Santorum's record on gay
rights lined up outside the building. Protesters held up signs
saying, “Gay rights are human rights” and “I love my family –
why doesn't Rick?”
Republican voters caucus in Minnesota
and Colorado and cast ballots in a statewide primary in Missouri on
Tuesday.
Gingrich on Monday faced hecklers
during a campaign stop in Minnesota, CBS
News reported.
“Hey Newt, why do you support
discrimination against gays and lesbians all the time? Serial
hypocrisy!” Gabe Aderhold of the Minnesota-based Gliterrati
shouted.
Aderhold is the high school teen who
heckled
Michele Bachmann and Tim Pawlenty at the Iowa State Fair last summer.
The teen asked both former candidates if they thought he was “a
second-class citizen.”
“No hate in our state, why do you
discriminate?” a second Gliterrati member shouted at Gingrich after
Aderhold was pushed out of the room by the crowd. (The video is
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Gingrich, who is looking to Minnesota
to gain on rival Mitt Romney, appeared unruffled by the
interruptions.
(Related: Newt
Gingrich showered with “gay” glitter.)