Ric Santorum Disses All Married Couples, Straight As Well As Gay

[crabby_lioness]

Ric Santorum, a Republican presidential candidate who is not afraid to admit in front of a national audience that he doesn't understand the difference between a dog, a child, and an adult, or between a parental relationship and a marital relationship, has said some incredibly offensive things about gay married couples.  So offensive, in fact, that it's possible many people have missed his other offensive statements against straight married couples.

Ric Santorum opposes birth control even when used by married couples because it is "disrespectful" of women and families and so "hurts" women and society.  Think about it.  If a particular straight married couple honestly decide that they would make terrible parents and choose not to have babies and not to inflict their complete lack of interest in children or child-rearing on the next generation, Santorum thinks they are being "disrespectful" of children and families.  Really.

More commonly, if a married couple who want to have children choose to delay pregnancy for a few years in order to increase their own maturity and/or achieve a more stable financial base for their family, Santorum thinks they are "disrespectful" of women and families.  Honest.

Or if a married couple with children decide to limit the number they have so they can spend more time parenting the offspring they've already got, Santorum believes they are "disrespectful".

It's worth noting that the reason birth control was sought after in the first place was to prevent married women from dying in childbirth after their uterus ruptured from too many pregnancies, a horrible but common occurrence 100 years ago.  Santorum apparently thinks dying in childbirth is more "respectful" to women than living to care for the children they already have (or doing whatever else they choose to live for).

Of course without birth control more married women would die in childbirth and leave behind more orphaned children, significantly raising the number of single parent households in America.  Their surviving children would suffer all the problems associated with being brought up in a single parent family; but hey, they would belong to "respectful" single parent families!  Better be brought up in a "respectful" single parent family where the mother died trying to give birth than to be raised by two loving parents who "disrespected" the mother by not risking her health.

So to all the gay people upset about what Santorum has said about gay couples, You Are Not Alone.  Santorum doesn't just hate all gay married couples.  He hates all married couples, period.  There's only one thing you can say about a man who tries to win the Presidency of a country where over 90% of people marry with such an attitude.  Jesus, what a moron.

Comments

[swordznsorcery.livejournal.com]

Oh boy. I was reading this earlier. (The link is to another blog that I read, by a British writer who has an interest in American politics, and comments on them sometimes). You add some interesting extra colour to Santorum. What is this peculiar march further and further right that there is in politics at the moment? We're seeing it here in the UK as well, although not nearly to the same degree. A former Conservative Prime Minister here, Edward Heath, commented a few years ago that the present left wing politicians are further to the right on many issues that he was, when he was still leader of the right. It infuriates me, but at least our lot still seem sane. Corrupt, but sane!

Oh Republican Party. What has become of you.

[crabby-lioness.livejournal.com]

To a certain extent it's a dialogue problem, an extended case of, "I do not think that means what you think it means."

Side A asks a question, thinking that with the inferences everyone will surely understand what they mean.

Side B hears the question but not the inferences, thinking instead that Side A means a completely different question. They answer that different question.

Side A doesn't understand why their question wasn't answered. They ask it again.

Side B wonders what's wrong with Side A and repeats the answer they've already given only Slow-er and Loud-er.

Side A thinks they're being insulted and starts yelling.

Side B starts yelling back.

Meanwhile the unanswered questions only get less likely to be answered, as everyone descends into name-calling. Both sides feel justified in their belief that one just can't talk to those people, they don't understand anything important.

[eumenidis.livejournal.com]

Umm...I think it's more a matter of ideologies being so alien that what makes sense in one is pure madness in the other. It's all but impossible to have any meaningful dialog in those circumstances.

[crabby-lioness.livejournal.com]

It's depressing that people aren't even really trying though. The "melting pot" has thoroughly clogged.

I'm about to continue this conversation in another post.