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Rick Santorum confronted on gay marriage by Raven-Symoné on The View
Shortly after Rick Santorum sat down on the set of ABC’s The View on Wednesday (30 September), co-host Raven-Symoné had a question for the Republican presidential hopeful.
‘Speaking, not for, but as a part of the gay and transgender community, why can we not have equal marriage rights?’ she asked the former US senator.
Santorum, an outspoken opponent of marriage equality, launched into lecture mode saying that the ‘greater purpose of marriage … is to bring men and women together so when they have children, there’s a permanent bond by which those children can be raised by their natural mother and natural father.’
He then alluded to the US Supreme Court’s recent ruling making same-sex marriage legal in all 50 states.
‘ … When you have a law that says, as the Court said, that marriage has nothing to do with children anymore, then what you’re going to have is you’re not going to have a society encouraging the behavior that is in the best interest of children and the future of society.’
Raven-Symoné, who is currently in a relationship with a woman, asked Santorum why he felt gays could not raise a ‘very beautiful, smart, intelligent child’ just as well as a heterosexual.
Santorum replied: “I’m not saying that a same-sex couple can’t have a very positive and nurturing environment. Historically, and I think sociologically, if you look at today, is in the best interest of that child to be raised by their natural mother and their natural father, and that’s really what we want to encourage.’
Santorum finished second to Mitt Romney for the Republican presidential nomination in 2012. His campaign this time around has so far failed to gather much traction and is polling at 1% in most national polls.
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Greg Hernandez
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