Social issues: Pass a Constitutional amendment to reverse the Supreme Court decision on gay marriage. Ban all abortion, except when the life of the mother is in danger. Santorum has signed a pledge to defend marriage as between one man and one woman and supports an amendment to the U.
Constitution to set that definition in law. In , he indicated he also opposes same-sex civil unions. The former senator has stated he personally would not attend a same-sex wedding.
On abortion, Santorum believes life begins at conception and abortions should be banned with the exception of when the life of the mother is in danger. Social Security: Raise eligibility age for future beneficiaries. Consider cutting cost-of-living increases. Speaking to a New Hampshire crowd in , Santorum argued that problems ahead for Social Security require immediate cuts to benefits for all and deeper cuts for wealthy Americans.
A few weeks later on the trail, the former senator advocated raising the eligibility age for future retirees. His campaign tells NewsHour that the former Senator now would only consider cutting cost-of-living increases for current recipients. In , Santorum supported President George W. His campaign recently told NewsHour that Santorum no longer supports the type of private accounts Bush proposed.
In the meanwhile, on the website for his non-profit organization Patriot Voices, Santorum advocates the complete removal of taxes for U. In , he proposed creating a simpler tax code consisting of just two tax brackets, 10 percent and 28 percent.
More recently, the hopeful has proposed increasing the federal minimum wage by 50 cents per year for three years. The former member of Congress said he would have signed the letter 47 Republican senators sent to Iran in March warning Tehran against any deal that was not approved by Congress.
At the same event, he told Bloomberg TV , the U. They would be combat-ready as well as help with training and intelligence. Support Provided By: Learn more. Wednesday, Nov It is an issue on which Santorum is personally conservative and on which his policy position has crept to the right in recent years.
In a interview with a Comcast program and posted by the YouTube user "Santorumexposed," which has existed for years, Santorum, amid an ultimately unsuccessful run for re-election in purple Pennsylvania, says he supports a legal right to access contraception, which he says he doesn't think is effective and is "harmful to women" and "harmful to our society. But I'm not a believer in birth control and artificial birth control.
I think it goes down the line of being able to do whatever you want to do without having the responsibility that comes with that. I think it breaks that … this is from a personal point of view of, from a governmental point of view I support that Title X," he said.
I think it's harmful to women. I think it's harmful to our society to have a society that says that sex outside of marriage is something that should be encouraged or tolerated …, particularly among the young and it has I think we've seen very, very harmful long-term consequences to the society. Birth control to me enables that and I don't think it's a healthy thing for our country. That interview was the subject of a column by conservative columnist Jennifer Rubin, arguing in the Washington Post today that Santorum is wrong.
Santorum's policy position has moved to the right since He now endorses repealing Clinton-era sections of Title X, the federal grant program that promotes family planning and provides funds to Planned Parenthood, according to his campaign website. And his personal position against contraception has solidified.
In October, he said in an interview with the Christian blog Caffeinated Thoughts that contraception use factors into " the whole sexual libertine idea.
He said that as president, he would seek to repeal the Obama health care and get rid of any kind of idea that you have to have "any kind of abortion coverage, any kind of contraceptive coverage. Reaction: Santorum was responding to Mitt Romney's famous speech reassuring evangelical Christians that he shares their values, and to be fair, "Santorum's ultimate verdict on Romney was more or less positive," says Dan Froomkin at The Huffington Post.
But he draws plenty of "distinctions between Mormonism and Christianity that others have avoided lest they seem overly inflammatory. Dissing welfare programs that "make black people's lives better" Quote: "I don't want to make black people's lives better by giving them somebody else's money; I want to give them the opportunity to go out and earn the money. Reaction: "This is the sort of subtle racism" that should, but won't, harm Santorum among Republicans, says Steve Benen at Washington Monthly.
Why did he single out black people when talking about cutting government aid? Bringing race into Obama's abortion views Quote: "The question is — and this is what Barack Obama didn't want to answer — is that human life a person under the Constitution? And Barack Obama says no. Well if that person — human life is not a person, then — I find it almost remarkable for a black man to say, 'We're going to decide who are people and who are not people.
But critics don't "appreciate how mainstream Santorum's point is among pro-life activists" who commonly "consider their work a continuation of other movements that protected human life and elevated the status of people whom the law doesn't consider 'human.
Equating gay marriage to loving your mother-in-law Quote: "Is anyone saying same-sex couples can't love each other? I love my children. I love my friends, my brother. Heck, I even love my mother-in-law. Should we call these relationships marriage, too? Reaction: Did noted "homophobe" Santorum just admit to a "weird sexual relationship with his mother-in-law" and brother?
Stickings at The Reaction. He may be atop the Republican heap, "but make no mistake about it, Santorum's still a bigot and a moron. Comparing homosexuality to "man-on-dog" sex Quote: "If the Supreme Court says that you have the right to consensual [gay] sex within your home, then you have the right to bigamy, you have the right to polygamy, you have the right to incest, you have the right to adultery.
You have the right to anything.
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