Well, heck no Rick -- not unless you have been having a kinkier relationship with your mother-in-law than you've been letting on.
Gays are not the only minority group that Santorum has got a beef with. "I don't want to make black people's lives better by giving them somebody else's money," the candidate declared. "I want to give them the opportunity to go out and earn the money." Strange that he should single out blacks when poor whites far outnumber people of color on the Welfare and Food Stamp rolls. But, hey, let's not confuse ourselves with facts.
And it is not just blacks and their predilection for mooching off white people to achieve better lives that irritate Rick Santorum, it's the whole disorderly mess of American cultural diversity. "Diversity creates conflict. If we celebrate diversity, we create conflict."
But wait -- isn't diversity what America is all about -- you know, land of immigrants, religious liberty, the melting pot, give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free? But apparently not. Rick Santorum's America is a tribe comprised of white, heterosexual, Christian (but not Mormon) males, whose bigotries he skillfully exploits.
That exclusivity might present a problem for him at the polls. If you add up all of the non-Christians, the 99% of woman who use contraceptives, the blacks, the browns, the poor, the recent immigrants, the gays, the tree huggers -- all of the assorted Americans who Rick Santorum does not approve of-- that is one heck of a lot of folks who likely wouldn't vote for him, even if Rush Limbaugh's man succeeds in winning the Republican presidential nomination in August.
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