Rick Santorum Assures Lesbian Filmmaker Kristina Lapinski That Being Gay Is Choice
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- On Top Magazine Staff
- | November 17, 2011
Rick Santorum has assured lesbian filmmaker Kristina Lapinski that being gay is a choice.
At a candidates forum in New Hampshire on Thursday, Lapinski asked GOP presidential rivals Newt Gingrich and Santorum their thoughts on a federal amendment that would ban gay marriage, gay glossy The Advocate reported.
“Marriage is between a man and a woman!” Gingrich answered.
Santorum said that during his tenure in the Senate many Republicans wanted to steer clear of the issue for fear of a backlash.
“When I was in the U.S. Senate, this was not difficult to understand; one of the toughest things I had to do was to get the Republicans to support me to ban same-sex marriage,” he said.
After the forum, Lapinski got personal with Santorum, asking him, “What would you do if I was your daughter?”
“I would love you,” a smiling Santorum answered.
“Would you want me to get married and have a family?”
“Only if it were with a man.”
“But I am not attracted to men,” Lapinski noted.
“But it is your choice.”
“Rick, it is not my choice!”
“Like anything in life,” Santorum said, “it is a choice. You may feel this is the way that it is supposed to be; you make decisions in life, and you choose what is right.”