A “chastened” U.S. Supreme Court won’t make the mistake of
granting same-sex "marriage" rights, former presidential candidate Rick
Santorum predicted in an interview Monday.
“I think you’ll see, hopefully, a chastened Supreme Court is not going to make the same mistake in the (current) cases as they did in Roe v. Wade,” which legalized abortion, Santorum told The Des Moines Register in a telephone interview. “I’m hopeful the Supreme Court learned its lesson about trying to predict where the American public is going on issues and trying to find rights in the Constitution that sit with the fancy of the day.”
The Supreme Court heard oral arguments on two major same-sex "marriage" cases last month, and rulings are expected by June.
Santorum, a religious conservative who won the 2012 GOP Iowa caucuses by 34 votes, will be in Iowa Monday to speak at the spring fundraiser for the Iowa Faith & Freedom Coalition, a nonprofit group that presses for Christian principles in government.
Asked about his plans to seek the GOP presidential nomination in 2016, he said: “I haven’t made any decisions.” The father of seven said the decision would depend on his personal life and the political scene in the next election cycle.
Santorum is coming to Iowa next week to say that although some Republicans here and elsewhere are now publicly backing "marriage" rights for same-sex couples, the party will never embrace that.
“One of the things I learned from the last four years is that when you go to Iowa, people pay attention to what you say,” he said. “That’s always a gift that Iowa can bring to any person in public life. We’re going to talk about the concerns I have.”
There’s obviously “an increasing mood” on supporting gay "marriage", but “it is not a well thought-out position by the American public,” Santorum said.
Asked what he thinks about the two Midwest Republican senators who have recently backed gay "marriage", Sen. Rob Portman of Ohio and Sen. Mark Kirk of Illinois, Santorum said some Republicans splintered off in the late 1960s and early 1970s to support abortion rights when the courts “started mucking around with pro-life statutes at the state level.”
“I’m sure you could go back and read stories, oh, you know, ‘The Republican Party’s going to change. This is the future.’ Obviously that didn’t happen,” Santorum said. “I think you’re going to see the same stories written now, and it’s not going to happen. The Republican Party’s not going to change on this issue. In my opinion it would be suicidal if it did.”
It’s healthy to talk about how the party can best communicate its message, he said, but “it’s another thing to change those foundational principles. Just because some of those things happen to be popular right now doesn’t mean the Republican Party should follow suit,” he said.
“I think you’ll see, hopefully, a chastened Supreme Court is not going to make the same mistake in the (current) cases as they did in Roe v. Wade,” which legalized abortion, Santorum told The Des Moines Register in a telephone interview. “I’m hopeful the Supreme Court learned its lesson about trying to predict where the American public is going on issues and trying to find rights in the Constitution that sit with the fancy of the day.”
The Supreme Court heard oral arguments on two major same-sex "marriage" cases last month, and rulings are expected by June.
Santorum, a religious conservative who won the 2012 GOP Iowa caucuses by 34 votes, will be in Iowa Monday to speak at the spring fundraiser for the Iowa Faith & Freedom Coalition, a nonprofit group that presses for Christian principles in government.
Asked about his plans to seek the GOP presidential nomination in 2016, he said: “I haven’t made any decisions.” The father of seven said the decision would depend on his personal life and the political scene in the next election cycle.
Santorum is coming to Iowa next week to say that although some Republicans here and elsewhere are now publicly backing "marriage" rights for same-sex couples, the party will never embrace that.
“One of the things I learned from the last four years is that when you go to Iowa, people pay attention to what you say,” he said. “That’s always a gift that Iowa can bring to any person in public life. We’re going to talk about the concerns I have.”
There’s obviously “an increasing mood” on supporting gay "marriage", but “it is not a well thought-out position by the American public,” Santorum said.
Asked what he thinks about the two Midwest Republican senators who have recently backed gay "marriage", Sen. Rob Portman of Ohio and Sen. Mark Kirk of Illinois, Santorum said some Republicans splintered off in the late 1960s and early 1970s to support abortion rights when the courts “started mucking around with pro-life statutes at the state level.”
“I’m sure you could go back and read stories, oh, you know, ‘The Republican Party’s going to change. This is the future.’ Obviously that didn’t happen,” Santorum said. “I think you’re going to see the same stories written now, and it’s not going to happen. The Republican Party’s not going to change on this issue. In my opinion it would be suicidal if it did.”
It’s healthy to talk about how the party can best communicate its message, he said, but “it’s another thing to change those foundational principles. Just because some of those things happen to be popular right now doesn’t mean the Republican Party should follow suit,” he said.
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