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The group said Santorum was "exactly right" and attributed criticism of Santorum to the "gay thought police". The conservative Christian group Concerned Women for America agreed with Santorum's comments in a written statement. LGBT rights groups which condemned the comments by Santorum included the Pennsylvania Gender Rights Coalition, OutFront, the Center for Lesbian and Gay Civil Rights, and the Human Rights Campaign. Republican Senator John McCain of Arizona stated, "I think that he may have been inartful in the way that he described it." Ĭritics of the statement included the Log Cabin Republicans, and the Republican Unity Coalition. Brad Woodhouse of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee called the comments, "divisive, hurtful and reckless." Santorum faced criticism for his comments from Republican Senators including Olympia Snowe, Susan Collins, Lincoln Chafee, and Gordon H. The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee demanded that Santorum resign as chairman of the Republican Senate Caucus. ĭean called on Santorum, "to resign from his post as Republican Conference chairman." Other Democratic politicians who responded included Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle, who remarked that Santorum's comments were "out of step with our country's respect for tolerance". Bush's remark, relayed through spokesperson Ari Fleischer, that "the President believes that the senator is an inclusive man", to sharp criticism from former Governor of Vermont Howard Dean that " gay-bashing is not a legitimate public policy discussion it is immoral", to conservative groups such as the Family Research Council and Concerned Women for America who came to Santorum's defense. Santorum's comments evoked responses ranging from George W. The AP released a transcript it described as "an unedited section" of the interview on April 23. In response to attacks from WorldNetDaily, the interviewer made a recording of the interview available. You have the right to anything." and "Whether it's polygamy, whether it's adultery, whether it's sodomy, all of those things, are antithetical to a healthy, stable, traditional family."

The AP also quoted Santorum as saying, "If the Supreme Court says that you have the right to consensual sex within your home, then you have the right to bigamy, you have the right to polygamy, you have the right to incest, you have the right to adultery. And when you destroy that you have a dramatic impact on the quality. It's not, you know, man on child, man on dog, or whatever the case may be. In every society, the definition of marriage has not ever to my knowledge included homosexuality. When asked "if somebody is homosexual, you would argue that they should not have sex?" Santorum stated: Texas, which challenged a Texas sodomy law, and said that "he did not have a problem with homosexuals, but a problem with homosexual acts", "the right to privacy doesn't exist in my opinion in the United States Constitution", and "sodomy laws properly exist to prevent acts which undermine the basic tenets of our society and the family." Santorum then brought up the then-pending U.S. When asked for his position on the Roman Catholic Church sex abuse scandal in 2003, Santorum said that the scandal involved priests and post-pubescent men in "a basic homosexual relationship" (rather than child sexual abuse), which led the interviewer to ask if homosexuality should be outlawed.