Ethics

Santorum's Lies About Same-Sex Marriage

By Ed Brayton

Everyone's favorite anti-gay blowhard Rick Santorum has a gloriously self-aggrandizing op-ed in the Philadelphia Inquirer about the California gay marriage ruling. The whole tone of the piece is "I told you this would happen and you all laughed at me. But who's laughing now?" Well Rick, I am, at the ridiculous and long-debunked lies you tell in this op-ed piece. Like this one:

Look at Norway. It began allowing same-sex marriage in the 1990s. In just the last decade, its heterosexual-marriage rates have nose-dived and its out-of-wedlock birthrate skyrocketed to 80 percent for firstborn children.

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on May 27, 2008 (boomark / email).