{"id":26452,"date":"2012-01-07T10:00:49","date_gmt":"2012-01-07T15:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mommyish.com\/?p=26452"},"modified":"2012-01-07T10:47:33","modified_gmt":"2012-01-07T15:47:33","slug":"rick-santorum-high-school-new-hampshire-768","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mommyish.com\/rick-santorum-high-school-new-hampshire-768\/","title":{"rendered":"Rick Santorum Gets Questioned By Some Pretty Sharp High Schoolers About Family"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Daily Beast reports that when asked about his conservative stance on gay marriage, Rick responded:<\/p>\n

\u201d[Same-sex marriage is] robbing children of the right to be loved by a mom and dad\u201d\u00a6Children want and need their mom and dad \u201d\u00a6 And there\u2019s nothing hateful about that.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

But when a second kid pressed him on why heterosexual people were “more worthy of the privilege of marriage” than same-sex couples, the Republican refused to elaborate.\u00a0 Another student named Alison Poirier<\/strong> asked that Santorum explain a little more about his position on birth control and abortion based on what she she had seen in the press. She even tacked on a hypothetical question about adoption as pertaining to same-sex discrimination:<\/p>\n

\u201dI read that you were against birth control and abortion,\u201d [she] said . \u201dSo what happens when someone gets pregnant and can\u2019t take care of a baby? What\u201d\u201donly a straight couple can adopt them?\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Santorum told the audience that although he is Catholic and using birth control goes against his faith, he would not impose that belief onto others if elected into office.<\/p>\n

These may have been youngsters confronting the politician, but their questions and awareness of hot political issues suggest that they’re quite plugged in. Must be all that Twitter the kids are playing around on these days.<\/p>\n

(photo: thinkprogress.org<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s election time in this dear country of ours and while father of seven Rick Santorum spouts the evils…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20793,"featured_media":26453,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1121,81,877,3980,2257,35135],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":6,"label":"Stuff"}],"post_tag":[{"value":1121,"label":"adoption"},{"value":81,"label":"birth control"},{"value":877,"label":"LGBTQ"},{"value":3980,"label":"news"},{"value":2257,"label":"same-sex marriage"},{"value":35135,"label":"teenager"}]},"featured_image_src_large":["https:\/\/mommyish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/santorum.jpg",268,296,false],"author_info":{"display_name":"Koa Beck","author_link":"https:\/\/mommyish.com\/author\/koa\/"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":6,"name":"Stuff","slug":"stuff","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":6,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":8931,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":6,"category_count":8931,"category_description":"","cat_name":"Stuff","category_nicename":"stuff","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":[{"term_id":1121,"name":"adoption","slug":"adoption","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":1177,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":101,"filter":"raw"},{"term_id":81,"name":"birth control","slug":"birth-control","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":81,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":135,"filter":"raw"},{"term_id":877,"name":"LGBTQ","slug":"lgbtq","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":877,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":122,"filter":"raw"},{"term_id":3980,"name":"news","slug":"news","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":4044,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":2026,"filter":"raw"},{"term_id":2257,"name":"same-sex marriage","slug":"same-sex-marriage","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":2320,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":48,"filter":"raw"},{"term_id":35135,"name":"teenager","slug":"teenager","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":190,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":158,"filter":"raw"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mommyish.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26452"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mommyish.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mommyish.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mommyish.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20793"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mommyish.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mommyish.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26452\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mommyish.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mommyish.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mommyish.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mommyish.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}