Yeah, that’s no surprise whatsoever, but he does prove, once again, what’s wrong with the modern Republican party. Rick Santorum was at the College Convention in New Hampshire and questions about gay marriage came up. While I’m at least somewhat happy that he didn’t immediately leap into a religious defense of his anti-gay marriage stance, Santorum revealed himself to be an idiot anyhow, as if that’s a surprise.
His entire line of “reasoning” is that we ought to have a good reason for changing the marriage laws and he just didn’t think there could be a good reason for doing so. That’s stupid. It’s like Lincoln saying “we need a good reason to change the slavery laws…”
Of course, the audience wasn’t much better. Someone asked about the “right to happiness” for someone wanting to marry someone else of the same sex. Sorry, no such thing. That’s a liberal lie. There is no right to be happy. There’s a right to pursue happiness, but no right to actually achieve it. Santorum came back with “what if someone needed to marry five people to be happy”. Um, okay. Let them marry five people. Doesn’t bother me in the least. Granted, there are some serious potential legal issues with polygamous marriage that would need to be worked out first, but in principle, I don’t care who you marry or how many you marry and it has nothing whatsoever to do with happiness, it has to do with equality.
If we’re going to have legal marriage in this country, it needs to be equal. Anyone above the age of consent must be able to marry anyone else above the age of consent, assuming both parties actually consent to the marriage. I don’t care if it’s a man and woman, man and man, woman and woman or 47 people. It shouldn’t matter. It’s nobody else’s business except theirs.
This keeps bringing us back to the core of traditional conservatism. Small government and keeping the government the hell out of people’s lives. Santorum and the modern Republican party favor neither. While I’m sure the majority of people in the audience at the College Convention were liberals, it’s good that they booed Santorum. He deserves it. He’s an unmitigated ass. We all know why he holds the position he does, it’s because he has an imaginary friend in the sky who he thinks demands it.
That, in and of itself, disqualifies the man from any position of power in my opinion.
You know, I get really sick and tired of liberal stupidity. The idea that its nobody’s fault what happens to them and that everyone is a victim is utterly idiotic. In fact, I would go so far as to say that it’s the source of most of the nation’s problems right now. Read More 
