How does rick santorum feel about gays

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Path Created with Sketch. Shape Created with Sketch. And if you look at places that in fact have gone through and changes their definition of marriage, what you have seen is lower birth rates. What you have seen is lower marriage rates. What you have seen is problems that come from that.

So, the biggest issue is that we need to encourage men and women to come together and form stable families and have children so society can continue because if that doesn't happen, it won't.

What I think is important is marriage and the family. And I think the most important thing we can do as a party is to restore the importance of marriage, encouraging marriage from an economic point of view as well as a societal point of view.

Known as the Employment Non-Discrimination Act, the bill would have prevented employers from firing, hiring, demoting or promoting workers based on sexual orientation. They have the right to be able to — employment.

Privileges of marriage, privileges of government benefits is a different thing than basic right to live their lives as they well should and can as free Americans. Instead, Mike Pence wants the law to be amended.

How can, all of a sudden, we get to a point where if you have a religious point of view on a particular moral issue, you need to be sensitized or re-educated? The only sensitivity training we need is to respect every person. Senator Rick Santorum R-Pa. None of those other freedoms mean anything unless you have the freedom to say, print and gather in the name of what you believe. Mike Pence last week—Sen. Santorum returned to his Voltairian ideology, and more than once wondered out loud why the Indiana law was causing such uproar.

Has repeatedly said sexual orientation is a choice, the same argument used by conversion therapy arguments to promote the dangerous practice. I have a problem with homosexual acts. As I would with acts of other, what I would consider to be, acts outside of traditional heterosexual relationships. And that includes a variety of different acts, not just homosexual.

And I have no problem with someone who has other orientations. The question is, do you act upon those orientations? And you have to separate the person from their actions. Behavior is a choice. But the point that Gov. Perry was making, which is that any type of behavior action is a choice, is an accurate depiction. According to their website, Sen. Rick Santorum was a confirmed speaker for the Values Voter Summit. A: No research has ever proven that a homosexual orientation is determined at birth….

Q: Can someone's sexual orientation change over time? A: Yes -- and such changes are especially common among young people…. A: Research, clinical experience, and personal testimonies all give evidence that SOCE can help people to change.

The evidence does not support such bans, and they therefore represent an assault upon both truth and freedom. However, there is abundant anecdotal evidence that such therapies work—that is, people who say that they were helped by such therapies to change from predominantly homosexual to predominantly heterosexual.

There is also scientific evidence. This article is more than 6 years old. Rick Santorum, seen speaking in Philadelphia last month, opposes the recent ruling on same-sex marriage by the supreme court.