Watch Rick Santorum's Hilariously Disastrous Rachel Maddow Appearance
LatestStraight Republican Presidential candidate and Urban Dictionary entry Rick Santorum was a guest on The Rachel Maddow Show last night, and spent a significant chunk of his interview talking about The Gays.
After Maddow called him “fundamentally wrong on civics” for suggesting Congress could overrule the Supreme Court, the pair began having arguments over the constitutionality of various things—from partial-birth abortion to same-sex marriage. Their interruption-filled back and forth was going nowhere until Maddow said, bluntly, “Can I ask you if you believe people choose to be gay?”
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Santorum: You know, I’ve sort of never answered that question…Because I don’t really know the answer to that question! But I suspect there are all sorts of reasons that people end up the way they are. And I’ll sort of leave it at that.
Maddow: It matters…if it’s an immutable characteristic. You don’t know if it’s immutable or not?
Santorum: I don’t know. And if it is, that leads to a whole bunch of other situations. I mean, we have, for example, allowed in the law of the land, sex selection abortions. So if you can determine whether one of your children is gay, should we pass a law saying you can’t abort a child because you found out that child is gay? Because that child is a woman? How would you feel about a law like that?
Maddow: But you’re worrying about the consequences of this without saying whether or not you know it’s true.
Santorum: Because I don’t.
She asked him again. And, again, he dodged and said things like, “But I have friends who no longer choose to live the gay lifestyle!”