Rick Santorum on Sunday responded to a
Saturday Night Live skit that poked fun at his anti-gay marriage
views.
In
the comedy sketch, GOP candidates attending a presidential debate
in Iowa were arranged according to poll rankings, putting Newt
Gingrich and Michele Bachmann in a broom closet, Ron Paul in a hotel
parking garage and Santorum in a gay bar in San Francisco's Castro
District.
In the room with the moderator were
frontrunners Herman Cain, Mitt Romney and Rick Perry, though he had
to face a wall.
Santorum, known as the field's most
outspoken opponent of gay rights, and in particular marriage, is
briefly seen cowering in the gay bar sandwiched between men wearing
tank tops and leather vests.
Speaking to New Hampshire radio station
WGIR, Santorum called the comedy skit a form of “bullying.”
“We've been hammered by the left for
my standing up for the traditional family and I will continue to do
so,” Santorum said. “The left, unfortunately, participates in
bullying more than the right does. They say that they're tolerant,
and they're anything but tolerant of people who disagree with them
and support traditional values.” (The audio is embedded in the
right panel of this page.)
(Related: Rick
Santorum says gay community waged jihad against him over gay
marriage.)