The Afternoon Quote
You’re not entitled “to special treatment under the law…[Marriage is] not a right, it’s something that has existed since the beginning of human history as an institution where men and women come together for the purposes of forming a natural relationship as God made it to be. And for the purposes of having children and continuing that civilization. It is an intrinsic good…And as a result of that, we extend a privilege. We extend certain privileges to people who do that because we want to encourage that behavior. [...]
Two people who may like each other or may love each other who are same-sex, is that a special relationship? Yes it is, but it is not the same relationship that benefits society like a marriage between a man and a woman.
–Frothy Santorum to a gay member of his audience
We may as well just put together a spreadsheet. Who gets what rights.
Column 1:
Heterosexual Married
Homosexual Married
Heterosexual Non-Married
Homosexual Non-Married
Male Non-Married
Female Non-Married
Column 2: Vistitation rights
Column 3: Survivorship
Column 4: Insurance
etc.
May as well just spell the damn thing out and get it over with.
I’ve got more.
“Benefits society”? What the hell does that mean? Granted, a breeding couple will spend more on raising their human pups (and feel all the more smug for it) than a non-breeding couple. But I refuse to discount the contributions of those who choose to not follow Santorum’s world view.
“By the way, forget about access to birth control.”
Techie -
Are you trying to plot out the Idiot Consulting Company’s Magic Quadrant chart (you know of whom I speak)?
Regards,
Tengrain
Fucking socialist.
So Frothy believes old people shouldn’t get married because they’re past child-bearing age, and that men and women who are sterile shouldn’t get married because they’re incapable of spawning children? WTF?!
- Badtux the Baffled Penguin
I’m kind of wondering if Frothy is working backwards from the argument he offered as a lawyer on behalf of the World Wrestling Federation that federal steroid use law should not apply to professional wrestlers because pro wrestling was not a sport?
Either that or he’s making up rules because he thinks he’s Bill Maher.
Shit, I better go get divorced. I’m not helping society nearly as much as I could be.
Ding! Ding! Ding! We have a winner!
That swine, Graves, makes a point and sinks my battleship!
Rgds,
TG
And NOW the utter disregard for Newt’s hypocritical serial marriages makes sense.
He’s better than all of us, because he so loves the world and marriage as God made it, he must do it MANY TIMES to make sure the world is getting the point.
HETERO MARRIAGE = GOOD.
HOMO MARRIAGE = MAN ON DOG/BOOKCASE/HORSE
It’s a SPECIAL right because with each gay marriage comes a pony, a new car, and a Get Out of Jail Free When You Smack Down a Conservative Asshat card.
thanks Frothy, God of All Mankind – i didnt know marriages with people like Susan SMith, Scott Petersen, John List, were so beneficial to human society
the fact that this complete piece of shit gets any airtime is one of the more reasons to believe there is not a god