Presidential hopeful Rick Santorum has
suggested he supports government-back discrimination against LGBT
people.
The former Pennsylvania senator made
his remarks on Wednesday at a Spartanburg, Iowa campaign stop, the
Patch
reported.
“What I believe is that government
should have a bias,” he told a spartan crowd that had gathered in a
homeless shelter, “a bias in favor of what is best for society. A
bias in favor of what is proven to be best for children, which is the
future of society.”
“Individuals don't live alone,
individuals don't function alone, they function in a unit that builds
something that can be a foundation. And that is the family,” he
added. (The video is embedded in the right panel of this page.)
Santorum and Minnesota Rep. Michele
Bachmann are the only GOP candidates to have signed the Iowa-based
Christian conservative The Family Leader's anti-gay marriage
pledge. Both vigorously oppose gay rights and are heavily courting
Iowa's Christian conservative vote.
Bachmann, however, has toned down her
anti-gay rhetoric since officially entering the race, and has refused
to answer allegations
that her husband, Marcus Bachmann, seeks to “cure” gay people at
his family clinics.