Presidential wannabe Rick Santorum has said that the SCOTUS ruling on same-sex marriage proves his warning about “man on dog” marriages was correct.
Back in 2013, Santorum claimed:
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. You have the right to anything. Does that undermine the fabric of our society? I would argue yes, it does … [I]t destroys the basic unit of our society because it condones behavior that’s antithetical to strong healthy families. Whether it’s polygamy, whether it’s adultery, where it’s sodomy, all of those things, are antithetical to a healthy, stable, traditional family … In every society, the definition of marriage has not ever to my knowledge included homosexuality. That’s not to pick on homosexuality. It’s not, you know, man on child, man on dog, or whatever the case may be.
As Right Wing Watch reports, speaking at the Western Conservative Summit in Colorado on the day of the SCOTUS ruling, Westboro Baptist Church fan Santorum said:
“What I say is if you have the right to consensual sexual activity then it opens the door to a variety of different things. And this ruling did it. This ruling followed up with what I said would happen if the Supreme Court ruled the way it did and the Supreme Court has followed their line of reasoning that I identified very early on that if consensual sexual activity is a constitutional right, then…it leads logically…that all the rights come with that. [The ruling] has certainly opened the door for a variety of other things that are going to happen.”
Captured by wingnut Colorado State Rep. Gordon Klingenschmitt, watch Santorum’s comments below.
