Screenwriter Dustin Lance Black has
accused Rick Santorum of lying about gay rights.
The openly gay Black wrote 8,
the play based on the trial over the constitutionality of
California's gay marriage ban, Proposition 8.
The play has raised more than $3
million for the American Foundation for Equal Rights (AFER), the
group formed specifically to challenge the law in court.
The play's Los Angeles reading was led
by an all-star cast, including George Clooney, Brad Pitt and Kevin
Bacon.
During an interview on the live
Internet show What's
Trending, Black told host Shira Lazar that he would like to
put Santorum and the remainder of the GOP presidential field on the
witness stand.
“I would love to call them into court
and get them to raise their right hand. I think each of them, if
they said what they've been saying in these debates, they would be
perjuring themselves. Because there is no proof for what they're
saying. There's no facts to back it up. And that's what we saw in
that courtroom. When you're called into court and you have to raise
your right hand and testify to 'tell the truth, the whole truth and
nothing but' the things they're saying – the hateful things, the
stereotypes and lies that we've heard for generations – fall
apart.”
“So I dare Rick Santorum to raise his
hand and swear to tell the truth and say the things he's been saying
about gay people,” Black added. (The video is embedded in the
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