During an appearance Thursday on CNN's Piers Morgan Tonight, host Piers Morgan asked Santorum to weigh in on the controversial anti-gay comments Kirk Cameron made on the program.
“Kirk Cameron's real problem wasn't that he wanted to stay true to his religious beliefs,” Morgan said. “But it was the language and rhetoric he used appeared to be quite hateful and derogatory. My question to you would be: Given the way that the gay marriage debate is going, gay rights debate is going, is it time that people, even if they have strong religious conviction on this issue, stopped using inflammatory language to demean the gay community?”
“I think both sides need to respect both sides,” Santorum answered.
He added that the 9th Circuit Court of Appeal's recent decision striking down California's gay marriage ban, Proposition 8, essentially labeled opponents “bigots and haters.”
“The 9th Circuit basically said anybody that believes that marriage should be just between a man and a woman is irrational. And the only reason they could possibly feel this way is because they are bigots and haters,” Santorum said.
“I respect people who disagree with me,” he added. “I think they have a right to go out and make their case and sell it to the American public and try to change the law as they see fit. I don't use language that, you know, calls them bigots or haters.”
Santorum later joked that he wasn't in the loop on what Cameron had said because he was too busy trying “to save the country.”
One commenter on this article responded, and I couldn't agree more:
I not only disrespect people like Rick, those called conservative Christians, (known as being on the Religious Right politically, and most accurately nicknamed the American Taliban), I despise them and wish death upon them. If you think this is too cruel, I ask you to look at history, not the world, but just in the USA. People like Rick have always infiltrated political parties and passed laws against minorities including woman, gays, blacks, immigrants, Quakers, Mormons, even Catholics, children, mixed-race children, single mothers, immigrants, (etc), literally ALL minorities are demonized and told that God said they would destroy the traditional (white) family if not stopped before their agenda of taking over the world and forcing everyone else to accept them, support them financially and make others put their faith aside and be treated like lower class citizens than these minorities that want special rights. What is most astonishing is, the very ideology, call it Liberal ideology, has made it possible for Catholics like Rick and Mormons like Willard (Mittens) to run for office, and allow Sarah Palin to work outside them home and even speak her views for that matter. In fact, all you have to do is, look which group of people speak out the loudest of being persecuted and having their rights taken away, while wanting special rights, exemptions from certain laws, legal protections and demand we all gather and stop the agenda of a minority that wants to take over our country, and you will see the very people that have been helped the most, by the types of people they are trying to demonize, the more liberal minded who want the USA to be "We the People" and not the theocracy the Puritans desired prior to our founder writing "We the People". Regardless of how flawed they may have been, the idea that a group of any people are in power to vote for their government was literally considered treasonous. Those who fought against this, were also just like those who follow the ideology Rick, Mittens, Palin, Bachmann, Bush (etc) follow: Conservatism, Christian fundamentalism, when combined becoming more powerful combing church and state; Conservative Christians. Not to toss Hitler into the picture to detract from any legitimacy to my argument, but he is and was the best example in recent history, more widely know that what the Puritans were really like, so I use him as an example. Hitler used conservatism and Christianity to get his followers to do his bidding. There are many books written about this and only Holocaust deniers think this is fictional history. A DVD I watched that opened my eyes to this, and scared the hell out of me by exposing just how easily the USA could follow in his footsteps, titled 'Theologians Under Hitler' is my first suggestion to everyone.
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