Neoconservative Worries About Beastiality!Rick Santorum is a former Republican senator from Pennsylvania. He was one of the most conservative senators, a proponent of creationism and vociferously opposed to same-sex marriage, homosexuality and abortion.
Santorum gained national attention in April 2003 for his derogatory remarks about homosexuality. During an interview with an Associated Press journalist, Santorum said if laws banning sodomy were repealed it would lead to "man-on-dog" sex. Shortly after, humorist Dan Savage popularized the Santorum name as sexual slang referring to a homosexual act.
His book It Takes a Family, discusses his views on social and cultural issues. He was raised in Butler County, Pennsylvania in the Catholic faith. His father was an Italian immigrant. After college graduation he became administrative assistant to Republican state Senator J. Doyle Corman and director of the Pennsylvania senate's transportation committee.
Santorum is married to Karen Garver Santorum; they have six children: Elizabeth Anne, Richard John Jr., Daniel James, Sarah Maria, Peter Kenneth and Patrick Francis. His forth son, Gabriel Michael Santorum, was born prematurely, and lived only for two hours. Santorum and Karen brought the baby to Karen's mother's home after it had died to be viewed by the family and their other children. Karen Santorum wrote a book about the experience.
After Santorum graduated from law school he began practicing law at Kirkpatrick & Lockhart in Pittsburgh. In this capacity Santorum represented the World Wrestling Federation, arguing that it should be exempt from the federal steroid use regulations because it is not a sport.
In 1990 Santorum was elected to the U.S House of Representatives. He served two terms, from 1991 - 1995. In 1994 he was elected to the U.S. Senate, defeating incumbent Democrat Harris Wofford, a man with 32 years of experience. Santorum was re-elected in 2000, but defeated (59% to 41%) in the 2006 U.S. Senate election by Democratic candidate Bob Casey, Jr. In March 2007, Santorum joined the law firm Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott, LLC. He practices law in the firm's Pittsburgh and Washington, D.C. offices, providing business and strategic counseling services.
In 1996, Santorum became the Chairman of the GOP Task Force on Welfare Reform. He was the author of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996; the act aimed at ending long-term dependency by requiring people living on welfare to work for their benefits. President Bill Clinton signed the bill into law. In 2001 he tried, unsuccessfully, to insert language into the No Child Left Behind bill that would require "a full range of views" on the origin of humanity to be taught in public school classrooms.
He and his family attend Latin Mass at a Roman Catholic Church, near Washington, D.C. on Sundays. On November 12, 2004, Santorum and his wife were invested as Knight and Dame of Magisterial Grace of the Knights of Malta in a ceremony held at St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York City. | |
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