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Rick Santorum Protest: 2 Men Kiss During Rally, Are Thrown Out

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Two men interrupted a Rick Santorum event in Illinois with a same-sex kiss, and were promptly ejected by security when the crowd turned on them.The fracas began in the middle of Santorum's remarks (at the 3:38 mark in the above video clip), when two protesters, identified as Timothy Tross and Ben Clifford, began yelling "mic check!," then embraced before bowing showily to the crowd. When the crowd realizes what was happening, they began to boo and chant "U-S-A!" in unison.The duo would would not reveal whether they were gay to Palatine Patch reporter Savannah Ziegelbauer, emphasizing Santorum's oft-divisive gay-rights policy, not their sexuality, as the important issue.Santorum was speaking at Christian Liberty Academy in Arlington Heights, Illinois, in advance of the Illinois primary on Tuesday, March 20. His appearance had been expected to draw protests from gay rights protesters, as well as some former high school classmates.

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God Santorum is just beyond me. And whats up with the "U-S-A! U-S-A! Chants"? I mean people are still going to be gay in the USA. Some people are just to ignorant.

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What exactly is Santorum's "oft divisive" gay rights policy?
 
jerry7 said:
What exactly is Santorum's "oft divisive" gay rights policy?
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He's stated he would pursue a federal ban on gay marriages and nullification of any existing ones. In response to the story though, I disagree with Santorum on virtually every issue, but there's no need to crash his rallies for the sole purpose of being disruptive. You can protest in a much more mature and less obnoxious manner that might actually garner some respect for your cause.
 
jerry7 said:
What exactly is Santorum's "oft divisive" gay rights policy?
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More specifically, he said that homosexuality is "like having sex with a dog or a man having sex with a boy."
 
Pretty much Rick Santorum is a d-bag
 
Hare said:
He's stated he would pursue a federal ban on gay marriages and nullification of any existing ones. In response to the story though, I disagree with Santorum on virtually every issue, but there's no need to crash his rallies for the sole purpose of being disruptive. You can protest in a much more mature and less obnoxious manner that might actually garner some respect for your cause.
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But DOMA already exists. Signed into law by President Clinton in 1996. It states that for the purposes of federal law marraige means the legal union between one man and one woman as husband and wife. The Federal government is prohiibited by law from recognizing same sex marraige. It also allows states to refuse to recognize same sex marraiges performed in states that allow it. How does what Santorum stated differ from federal law?
 
TheDemSocialist said:
Pretty much Rick Santorum is a d-bag
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While true, that does not excuse people going to a political event just to disrupt it. These guys where being dicks and attention whores. It is exactly the wrong way to make your point.
 
Eh... I'm very in favor of gay rights, but look-at-me! shocker displays to disrupt are something different and what they did definitely does NOT help gay rights, any more if a straight couple started making out at the mic to protest his view on contraceptives are immoral would win my favor. I've seen quite a few heated arguments over gay activists on such tactics. Wise ones are against it.
 
Redress said:
While true, that does not excuse people going to a political event just to disrupt it. These guys where being dicks and attention whores. It is exactly the wrong way to make your point.
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You put it better than I did.
 
joko104 said:
More specifically, he said that homosexuality is "like having sex with a dog or a man having sex with a boy."
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That's simply not true. He said that marraige was one man/one woman not homosexuality NOR man/child, man/dog or anything else. Here is his EXACT quote:

Every society in the history of man has upheld the institution of marriage as a bond between a man and a woman. Why? Because society is based on one thing: that society is based on the future of the society. And that's what? Children. Monogamous relationships. In every society, the definition of marriage has not ever to my knowledge included homosexuality. That's not to pick on homosexuality. It's not, you know, man on child, man on dog, or whatever the case may be. It is one thing. And when you destroy that you have a dramatic impact on the quality
 
jerry7 said:
That's simply not true. He said that marraige was one man/one woman not homosexuality NOR man/child, man/dog or anything else. Here is his EXACT quote:

Every society in the history of man has upheld the institution of marriage as a bond between a man and a woman. Why? Because society is based on one thing: that society is based on the future of the society. And that's what? Children. Monogamous relationships. In every society, the definition of marriage has not ever to my knowledge included homosexuality. That's not to pick on homosexuality. It's not, you know, man on child, man on dog, or whatever the case may be. It is one thing. And when you destroy that you have a dramatic impact on the quality
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So he did equate homosexuals with pedophiles and bestiality. I was actually not aware of that. That is pretty ignorant of him.
 
jerry7 said:
But DOMA already exists. Signed into law by President Clinton in 1996. It states that for the purposes of federal law marraige means the legal union between one man and one woman as husband and wife. The Federal government is prohiibited by law from recognizing same sex marraige. It also allows states to refuse to recognize same sex marraiges performed in states that allow it. How does what Santorum stated differ from federal law?
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Rick Santorum on the Issues

Voted YES on constitutional ban of same-sex marriage. (Jun 2006)
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In point of fact, he has voted yes three times to amend the constitution, this and twice for a flag burning amendment.
 
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God Santorum is just beyond me. And whats up with the "U-S-A! U-S-A! Chants"? I mean people are still going to be gay in the USA. Some people are just to ignorant.

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People are going to be gay in the USA. Not sure why two guys doing their disruptive PDA thing causes you say that Santorum is "beyond you." Seems to me that he was making a speech and had an attentive audience, and then two jerks were...jerks.
 
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Yes. Huffington Post article you quoted is simply a lie.

Rick Santorum Protest: 2 Men Kiss During Rally, Are Thrown Out
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Of course that headline is a lie. They were not "thrown out".

Two men interrupted a Rick Santorum event in Illinois with a same-sex kiss, and were promptly ejected by security when the crowd turned on them.
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Of course that too is simply a lie. Anyone who saw the video knows that they were not "ejected by security". They kissed and walked out.

That is to be expected from a leftist piece of crap like Huffpo. They are dishonest scumbags.
 
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jerry7 said:
But DOMA already exists. Signed into law by President Clinton in 1996. It states that for the purposes of federal law marraige means the legal union between one man and one woman as husband and wife. The Federal government is prohiibited by law from recognizing same sex marraige. It also allows states to refuse to recognize same sex marraiges performed in states that allow it. How does what Santorum stated differ from federal law?
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Because he would make it illegal for gays to enter into marriage contacts with each other with a constitutional amendment. And keys nit forget that doma its unconstitutional since it preview full faith and credit clause

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I wouldn't be surprised if the shadow Republican Party put on this show themselves to "keep the troops in line", after all it is the Minarchists who invaded and now control the Republican Party.

Follow the 2 homosexuals that crashed the party, tap their phone lines, spy on them; I bet they are RNC operatives.
 
It's about time a conservative not be afraid of his values. The guys there kissing were clearly Democrats thrown in to make the GOP look anti-gay. This will help Santorum as he has the backbone to stand up for his principles. I can't say I necessarily agree with him on alot of social issues, but public displays of affection like this have no room in public.
 
Derek said:
It's about time a conservative not be afraid of his values. The guys there kissing were clearly Democrats thrown in to make the GOP look anti-gay. This will help Santorum as he has the backbone to stand up for his principles. I can't say I necessarily agree with him on alot of social issues, but public displays of affection like this have no room in public.
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The GOP does not need help to look anti-gay. SSM is supported by over half of America(Civil Rights), as is gays being able to serve openly in the military. There is nothing wrong with people kissing in public.
 
there goes the openly gay vote for Santorum

maybe will cost him say 10 votes nationally?
 
There is if I'm around. It's not usual for the human condition either. If it were, humans would be extinct due to not reproducing. Kids seeing would be confused. I'm not saying to outlaw it, but that Santorum did the right thing. My view is that gay marriage should be left up to each state to decide like most other social issues. Gays are then free to live in gay marriage states if they wish and straight people are free to live in non gay marriage states if it's that important to them. States' Rights is what this country had in mind in the beginning. Not saying all, but most social issues should be left up to the states. I wouldn't have a problem if it were legalized in my state.
 
Matt Foley said:
I wouldn't be surprised if the shadow Republican Party put on this show themselves to "keep the troops in line", after all it is the Minarchists who invaded and now control the Republican Party.

Follow the 2 homosexuals that crashed the party, tap their phone lines, spy on them; I bet they are RNC operatives.
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Yeah it was two Mormon missionaries who did this so all the openly gay men will now vote for Romney instead of Santorum since Father Rick had that vote wrapped up until those evil Mormon operatives pretended to be two "flamers"
 
Derek said:
There is if I'm around.
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No one cares.

It's not usual for the human condition either.
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Gays have been around as long as there have been people, and in many species in nature.

If it were, humans would be extinct due to not reproducing.
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This is false.

Kids seeing would be confused.
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Kids are not that stupid.

I'm not saying to outlaw it, but that Santorum did the right thing. My view is that gay marriage should be left up to each state to decide like most other social issues.
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That is not Santorum's stance on the issue. He facors the federal governm ent banning them by constiututional amendment and voters for such a ban.

Gays are then free to live in gay marriage states if they wish and straight people are free to live in non gay marriage states if it's that important to them. States' Rights is what this country had in mind in the beginning. Not saying all, but most social issues should be left up to the states. I wouldn't have a problem if it were legalized in my state.
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Since states do get to decide who can get married already, then it should not matter what state you live in, if you are married, you are married.
 
I was saying that if everyone was gay, we'd be extinct, not that it's something new.

Humans would go extinct if they didn't reproduce.

Kids are innocent and easily confused by things that are strange. Most kids grow up with a mother and father and would be exposed to gayness this way.

I specified that I don't agree with Santorum on it, but simply on the way he handled this particular situation.

States do decide right now. Are you saying you think states should be allowed to vote for or against gay marriage? If a state doesn't recognize gay marriage then gay couples wouldn't be recognized.
 
Derek said:
I was saying that if everyone was gay, we'd be extinct, not that it's something new.

Humans would go extinct if they didn't reproduce.

Kids are innocent and easily confused by things that are strange. Most kids grow up with a mother and father and would be exposed to gayness this way.

I specified that I don't agree with Santorum on it, but simply on the way he handled this particular situation.

States do decide right now. Are you saying you think states should be allowed to vote for or against gay marriage? If a state doesn't recognize gay marriage then gay couples wouldn't be recognized.
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2 to 10 % is hardly every one. If a comet strikes the earth tomorrow we will go extinct too, but it's not going to happen either.

Most kids these days know kids with gay parents. Kids are not stupid.

States are allowed to decide who can get married. This is part of why DOMA is unconstitutional.
 
Redress said:
2 to 10 % is hardly every one. If a comet strikes the earth tomorrow we will go extinct too, but it's not going to happen either.

Most kids these days know kids with gay parents. Kids are not stupid.

States are allowed to decide who can get married. This is part of why DOMA is unconstitutional.
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I never said we're all going to be gay over night. I said it's not how most people are and therefore not normal.

DOMA isn't unconstitutional. The federal government does have the ability to make laws effecting all states. I just don't think DOMA was necessary.
 
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