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Santorum 'homophobic,' former Wyoming Senator says
KTVQ ^ | 2/22/12 | Robert Hendin, Alicia Budich

Posted on 02/22/2012 9:35:34 AM PST by NoPinkos

Former Senator Alan Simpson had some choice words for his one time colleague, former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum.

"I know Santorum, I served with him," he said. "He is rigid and a homophobic. He believes that gays and lesbians, he mentioned in an interview in 2003, about bestiality, and gays and lesbians. I think that's disgusting," said Simpson.

The former three-term Senator from Wyoming has always been known for both his candor and his ability to work across party lines, said Republicans are hurting themselves by focusing on social issues.

"Here's a party that believes in government out of your life, the precious right of privacy and the right to be left alone. How then can they be the hypocrisy of fiddling around in these social issues? We won't have a prayer," he told Bob Schieffer in an interview for CBS News's Face to Face, a weekly web interview from the staff of Face the Nation....

Simpson's prognosis about the focus on social issues could prove true in November's general election....

(Excerpt) Read more at ktvq.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Politics/Elections; US: Wyoming
KEYWORDS: alansimpson; homophobic; homosexualagenda; kenyanbornmuzzie; mittromney; newtgingrich; ricksantorum; santorum; simpson; troll
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Here's a party that believes in government out of your life, the precious right of privacy and the right to be left alone. How then can they be the hypocrisy of fiddling around in these social issues?

Good question....

1 posted on 02/22/2012 9:35:39 AM PST by NoPinkos
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To: NoPinkos

Wtf is wrong with that man (Simpson)?

For one thing, the GOP including Santorum has NOT focused on social issues. Santorum has committed any sin except being a decent man.


2 posted on 02/22/2012 9:38:40 AM PST by Williams (Honey Badger Don't Care)
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To: NoPinkos

Well Allen, where do you draw the line? Just another anything goes apologist. These folks just want to have a free for all. True anarchists


3 posted on 02/22/2012 9:39:32 AM PST by refermech
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To: NoPinkos

Simpson ‘useful idiot,’ current FReeper says


4 posted on 02/22/2012 9:40:30 AM PST by beaversmom
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To: NoPinkos

Also the claim of homophobia is not based on Simpson “knowing” Santorum, it is based on a public statement by Santorum.

I guess Simpsom believes GOP needs to stand for Gays On Parade. I don’t.

Gays are fine with me, doesn’t mean they have to get married, raise kids, or teach everyone about having “two moms”.

I think Alan Simpson is a skeeve. Go back to the Clarence Thomas hearings, where Simpson started making bizarre sexual remarks.


5 posted on 02/22/2012 9:44:26 AM PST by Williams (Honey Badger Don't Care)
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To: beaversmom

"He would never pick up the soap whenever I dropped it! I think he must be homophobic." Simpson said.


6 posted on 02/22/2012 9:44:30 AM PST by o2bfree
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To: NoPinkos

Government staying out of your private life, means you get to believe what you want to in your private life.

Including, you have the right to uphold a 3000 year old moral tradition. The one our system of liberty and limited government is rooted in.


7 posted on 02/22/2012 9:45:01 AM PST by marron
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To: NoPinkos

Simpson was chosen by Obama to be on his econ-ignore team because he’s a dyed in the wool rino.

Santorum has already explained why social issues are important: when the family fails, then America fails.

Is it any simpler than that? These behaviors cripple the family, and that cripples the nation.

It’s like saying, “He Ruskie-Phobic. I thought we were sposed to mind our own business, not russia’s. So, let’s get rid of the military.”

Cripple the military and you cripple the nation.


8 posted on 02/22/2012 9:45:27 AM PST by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! Pray Continued Victory for our Troops Still in Afghan!)
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To: NoPinkos

Not even a real question.

Calling or labeling something WRONG is not invading anyones bedroom.

You seem to advocate anything goes - sexually. As if no one should feel guilty about their ‘leanings’ and that no one really can say what is right or wrong. Rubbish.

In the article, Santorum spoke of bestiality and homosexuality. For the record, BOTH behaviors (and they are behaviors) are wrong, reprehensible and disgusting, having no positives for society at large. So, IF you are unable to say thet homosexuality is wrong, what then allows you to say that bestiality is? That necrophilia is? That polygamy is? Oh, what a slippery slope you find yourself on.

There IS a definition of right and wrong, unchanging per societal winds, called the bible. What was wrong 4000 years ago, surprisingly is still wrong today, despite your desire to believe otherwise.

IF you allow wrong to exist, without calling it out, labelling it as such, it will flourish and we see those fruits today (no pun intended). I for one am not blinded by
gray areas, and moral relativism. It is wrong.


9 posted on 02/22/2012 9:46:21 AM PST by RoadGumby (This is not where I belong, Take this world and give me Jesus.)
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To: NoPinkos; All

I guess it’s the difference between the Liberterian viewpoint that pretty much says if it doesn’t hurt someone leave it alone, and the Conservative fundamentalist view that if the bible says it’s a sin then government might have a right to “fix” it. This is probably one of the reasons that our founders included separation of Church and State in the First Amendment.


10 posted on 02/22/2012 9:46:46 AM PST by gleeaikin
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To: o2bfree

Yeah Alan, the GOP better support gay marriage, just like Barack ...oops!

Guess even Obama’s not that stupid, you jackass Simpson.


11 posted on 02/22/2012 9:46:46 AM PST by Williams (Honey Badger Don't Care)
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To: NoPinkos
His argument is precisely why we want government out of the lives of Americans as much as possible. We must be immune to the trends, fads, hysteria, etc. that influence individuals and groups.

By allowing government to confer special rights, one concedes that our rights come from the government.

12 posted on 02/22/2012 9:47:03 AM PST by NativeSon ( Grease the floor with Crisco when I dance the Disco)
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To: NoPinkos

Peer inside the skull bone tweets of real gerbalists like Alicia Budicha, Bob Sheiffer, Norah O’Donnell, David Gregory, etc., if you dare.
Notice how carefully they are discussing GOPers.

http://twitter.com/#!/budicha


13 posted on 02/22/2012 9:47:06 AM PST by tumblindice (Whitey-American: Taxed Enough Already)
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To: NoPinkos
If I wouldn't accept lecturing on my religion from a Sikh or a Buddhist why would I want to be lectured on my religion by an atheist?

Better yet, why are the atheists lecturing Christians ONLY and not other believers of other faiths? It gets a little ridiculous!

14 posted on 02/22/2012 9:48:03 AM PST by SMARTY ("The man who has no inner-life is a slave to his surroundings. "Henri Frederic Amiel)
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To: tumblindice

Taking the position the Bible states and having the balls to say that position aloud is homophobic nowadays. I didn’t realize Santorum was afraid of homosexuals, did you?


15 posted on 02/22/2012 9:48:54 AM PST by bigdirty
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To: NoPinkos
No... the gay movement is radical and activist based and has infected and stolen the moral fabric of our republic... and any backlash or push back against these homosexual radicals results in the simposonistic bullshit that we read here! Many of us stand against radical homosexuals that want to revamp America into a modern Sodom. We do NOT care what they do inside their homes and amongst consenting adults... but they want to own education, they want their sickness codified into law and taught in schools and they want to corrupt the Church into changing GOD's Commandments to remove any resistance to their evil. An example is that the gay community said that they only wanted to openly serve in the military... and now they want the military to give them super status... just like they want to be more equal than any other CITIZEN in America.

LLS

16 posted on 02/22/2012 9:48:57 AM PST by LibLieSlayer (Hey repubic elite scumbags... jam mitt up your collective arses!)
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To: NoPinkos

works across party lines = criticizes fellow Republicans


17 posted on 02/22/2012 9:49:42 AM PST by Last Dakotan
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To: Williams

“Wtf is wrong with that man (Simpson)?”

the guy is what- 90? He dodders on a good day.

What Santorum said is that the homsexual argument you have the “right” to marry whoever you love could apply to incest, bestiality and polygamy. And if not, then why does the “law” get to allow some free-will marriages but not others?


18 posted on 02/22/2012 9:50:56 AM PST by silverleaf (Funny how all the people who are for abortion are already born)
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To: NoPinkos

No it’s not a good question. Destroying traditonal marriage along with the basic tenants of Christianity has nothing to do with being left alone.


19 posted on 02/22/2012 9:51:24 AM PST by ohioman
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To: NoPinkos

No it’s not a good question. Destroying traditional marriage along with the basic tenants of Christianity has nothing to do with being left alone.


20 posted on 02/22/2012 9:51:51 AM PST by ohioman
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