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Rick Santorum Tells Women Rape Babies are a Gift from God

Posted by on Jan 24, 2012 in Television | 19 comments

It’s a wonder that Rick Santorum was able to get a word out edgewise, what with his size 11 foot in his mouth. Watch in horror as Rick Santorum actually calls rape a gift from God that women just need to hanker down and accept.

Rape babies don’t come with a gift receipt for a reason, according to Santorum. Because they are meant to be kept.

When life hands you rape, make rapeade! It’s really that simple, y’all!

From CNN’s transcripts:

MORGAN: But do you really — do you really — let me ask you this. Do you really believe, in every case, it should be totally wrong, in the sense that — I know that you believe, even in cases of rape and incest — and you’ve got two daughters. You know, if you have a daughter that came to you who had been raped.

SANTORUM: Yes.

MORGAN: And was pregnant and was begging you to let her have an abortion, would you really be able to look her in the eye and say, no, as her father?

SANTORUM: I would do what every father must do, is to try to counsel your daughter to do the right thing.

(CROSSTALK)

MORGAN: It’s an almost impossibly hypothetical thing to ask you, but there will be people in that position, and they will share your religious values.

SANTORUM: It’s not a matter of religious values.

MORGAN: And they are looking at their daughter ,saying, how can I deal with this, because if I make her have this baby, isn’t it going to just ruin her life?

SANTORUM: Well, you can make the argument that if she doesn’t have this baby, if she kills her child, that that, too, could ruin her life. And this is not an easy choice. I understand that. As horrible as the way that that son or daughter and son was created, it still is her child. And whether she has that child or doesn’t, it will always be her child. And she will always know that. And so to embrace her and to love her and to support her and get her through this very difficult time, I’ve always, you know, I believe and I think the right approach is to accept this horribly created — in the sense of rape — but nevertheless a gift in a very broken way, the gift of human life, and accept what God has given to you.

As you know, we have to, in lots of different aspects of our life. We have horrible things happen. I can’t think of anything more horrible. But, nevertheless, we have to make the best out of a bad situation.

Piers Morgan, to his credit, steers Santorum directly into the perfect follow up question. If you support a total ban on abortion because LIIIIIIIFE, on what planet does it make sense to then support the death penalty as Santorum does?

MORGAN: How do you equate — because I know that your position, I think — and correct me if I’m wrong, is that you just believe in the sanctity of the innocence of life. How do you equate that with supporting the death penalty, given there are so many people who actually are completely innocent?

I know that I beat this drum around here pretty often, but it is very important to point out that Rick Santorum doesn’t just hate gay people. He hates women. He hates victims of sexual abuse. He hates people who use birth control.

Santorum isn’t just a joke candidate with a campaign staff that continues to play dirty wordplay games with his political capital. He’s a lunatic.

Santorum may not have a chance in hell at becoming the GOP presidential candidate, but a cabinet position or talk show at Fox News is what he’s been running for all along anyway.

Homeboy is dangerous. and it’s important to not let that dialogue fade away until this man is shamed out of politics for good.