Rick Santorum was happy to share his unique brand of anti-LGBT analysis on Houston’s Equal Rights Ordinance before the final votes were counted.
GOP presidential candidate Rick Santorum weighed in yesterday on Houston’s HERO equal rights bill that failed to gain voter support.Â
Talking with Newsmax, a right wing website, Santorum was asked about HERO and a case involving a transgender girl being barred from using the girl’s locker room at school. Newsmax anchor Steve Malzberg described the transgender girl as “a boy who has male genitalia.”
Santorum offered his usual fear-mongering ignorance to pass judgment.
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“I don’t know why children at that age — why this is even an issue, the idea that we are introducing this type of real dangerous confusion for young people at this early age. Do we really care about what we’re doing to millions of children who don’t have gender confusion and basically introducing the subject and saying, ‘maybe you should, maybe this is something you should start thinking about at age seven’?,” a rambling Santorum asked.
“I mean this is really dangerous and it’s going too far because it is having an impact on not just folks who may be in a difficult situation at an early age but many who would never have been in that situation but now are being confronted with it.”
The former Pennsylvania U.S. Senator is struggling to stay in the GOP presidential race is polling between zero and two percent in recent state and national polls.
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Hat tip and video: Right Wing Watch
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