Rick Santorum: Marriage No Longer a Beer or Napkin, Now a Tree (or Car?)
Over the past 30 days alone, Rick Santorum has defined marriage as a napkin, a paper towel, a glass of water, and a beer. But that’s not all marriage means to ol’ Ricky!
In a nonsensical Q&A with the Iowa Independent, Santorum sets the record straight, so to speak. Finally, Santorum gives the definitive answer that will surely be looked to by future generations on what exactly a marriage is.
It’s a tree, y’all! Or is it a car? D’oh!
Burns: You’ve been pretty strong in your opposition to gay marriage. Iowa, of course, does have legalized gay marriage. How does the fact that there are a handful of gay couples married in Carroll affect my heterosexual life and your heterosexual life? How does it hurt other people in Carroll, Iowa, that there are folks among us we may not even know who happen to be gay and happen to be married? How does that hurt my life?
Santorum: Because it changes the definition of an intrinsic element of society in a way that minimizes what that bond means to society.
Marriage is what marriage is. Marriage was around before government said what it was.
It’s like going out and saying, ‘That tree is a car.’ Well, the tree’s not a car. A tree’s a tree. Marriage is marriage.
You can say that tree is something other than it is. It can redefine it. But it doesn’t change the essential nature of what marriage is. Marriage is a union between a man and a woman for the purposes of the benefit of both the man and the woman, a natural unitive according to nature, unitive, that is for the purposes of having and rearing children and for the benefit of both the man and the woman involved in that relationship.
And for the benefit of society because we need to have stable families of men and woman bonded together to raise children. That’s what marriage is.
You can say two people who love each other is marriage. But then why limit it to just two people? Why not three people? Why not 10 people?
If it’s just about love and everybody needs to be treated equally, then why not 10? Why not allowing nieces and aunts to marry? Why not? If marriage means anyone who is in love, well, then, let everybody who is in love get married. But it’s not what marriage is.
Marriage has an intrinsic value to society, and when you cheapen it by saying anybody in any relationship is the same, it’s not. So you undermine the institution No. 1. No. 2, you’re gonna undermine religious liberty in this country. We’re seeing it already.
Anybody who does not recognize what the state says is good and right is a bigot. We don’t give licenses for adoptions to organizations that won’t do gay adoptions because they’re bigots. And a lot of those are faith-based organizations.
Will we go into pulpits and tell preachers they can’t preach that gay marriage is wrong? Well maybe not right away but maybe tax-exempt status is next.
There’s a conflict here because we’ve created something that is not what it is.
Well we certainly agree with that last line! Our nation has absolutely created a shortlist of GOP Presidential nominees out of a pack of raving lunatics. And while Santorum may not be the leader of the pack, he’s definitely the mangy one barking the loudest in a barely sensible manner that not even his contemporaries understand.
So what do YOU think, Is marriage a napkin, beer, tree, glass of water, car, paper towel, or the legal union between two consensual, loving adults who have committed their lives to one another?
Why on earth is the person with the loudest voice, but the least sensical idea of what marriage actually is the one in charge of defining it for the Republican party?
