Failed GOP politician (and now failed movie studio executive) Rick Santorum is really in need of a win right now. So the former Pennsylvania Republican Senator offered himself a (false) little pick-me-up this morning via Twitter.
For at least a decade, Santorum has been “warning” that legalizing same-sex marriage will lead to legalizing polygamy.
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“If the Supreme Court says that you have the right to consensual sex within your home, then you have the right to bigamy, you have the right to polygamy, you have the right to incest, you have the right to adultery,” Santorum claimed in 2003. “You have the right to anything. Does that undermine the fabric of our society? I would argue yes, it does.â€
Even just last year in New Hampshire, Santorum was drumming up the anti-polygamy, anti gay marriage fear-mongering: “So, everybody has the right to be happy?…So, if you’re not happy unless you’re married to five other people, is that OK?â€
The two, same-sex marriage and polygamy, actually have nothing to do with each other, because they’re regulated by entirely different law concepts.
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But Santorum needed an easy out, so he tweeted this:
Some times I hate it when what I predict comes true. http://t.co/JmIPiiJiyn — Rick Santorum (@RickSantorum) December 15, 2013
The link goes to the news about a federal judge de-criminalizing a portion of Utah’s ban on polygamy, which we reported on Friday. Ironically, it is a ruling that actually advances religious liberty, but for some reason that fact escaped Santorum’s usual theocratic tendencies.
Rick Santorum. A simple mind examining a complex issue. Â Â
Hat tip:Â Joe.My.God.