Philadelphia Inquirer column by former Republican senator Rick Santorum is a shrill rant against the California Supreme Court for its recent ruling allowing gay marriage. Santorum worries about the “future of marriage as the union of husband and wife” and points out that he was “sounding the alarm about marriage” back in 2003.
To underscore his assertion that gay marriage = the collapse of civilization, he points to Norway:
Look at Norway. It began allowing same-sex marriage in the 1990s. In just the last decade, its heterosexual-marriage rates have nose-dived and its out-of-wedlock birthrate skyrocketed to 80 percent for firstborn children. Too bad for those kids who probably won’t have a dad around, but we can’t let the welfare of children stand in the way of social affirmation, can we?
But what about love? That’s the question a student asked this winter when I spoke at Georgetown University.
Is anyone saying same-sex couples can’t love each other? I love my children. I love my friends, my brother. Heck, I even love my mother-in-law. Should we call these relationships marriage, too? Marriage is and always has been more than the acknowledgment of the love between two people.
To underscore his assertion that gay marriage = the collapse of civilization, he points to Norway:
Look at Norway. It began allowing same-sex marriage in the 1990s. In just the last decade, its heterosexual-marriage rates have nose-dived and its out-of-wedlock birthrate skyrocketed to 80 percent for firstborn children. Too bad for those kids who probably won’t have a dad around, but we can’t let the welfare of children stand in the way of social affirmation, can we?
But what about love? That’s the question a student asked this winter when I spoke at Georgetown University.
Is anyone saying same-sex couples can’t love each other? I love my children. I love my friends, my brother. Heck, I even love my mother-in-law. Should we call these relationships marriage, too? Marriage is and always has been more than the acknowledgment of the love between two people.
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Little Ricky is a Hogwart student and friend of Harry Potter which should tell you something. Little Ricky is so far out there he doesn't even know who he is. Just looking for a way back to getting money to pocket like the other Law Makers. Where's the Bug Man when you need him? Little Rickly still keeps in magic wand just in case Lord Voldermort comes back as Ricky told us were Saddam's WMD's were.
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