The agenda that Rick Santorum advances strikes me as both hateful and hurtful…and while analogies between being gay and being a racial minority only go so far, when he speaks of being straight, he sounds like a White Supremacist speaking of being Caucasian. He also annoys me with his whining about the way he's depicted in comedy sketches and with what you get when you Google his surname. The people dumping on him are still nicer to him than he is to gay people.
It seems to me he gets the most grief in this area because he comes off as just about the only prominent Republican out there who acts like he really believes all that anti-gay rhetoric they all spout. The rest all seem to me to be uttering it because they think it prods a certain section of the population to support them and donate bucks. If they get elected, they'll pay lip service to rolling back gay rights and do a little something in that direction but will use most of their clout to push for more tax breaks for rich folks and corporations. Even Michele Bachmann, who's probably the runner-up to Santorum in actually believing we need to abolish Gay Marriage, seems more passionate about helping the wealthy get wealthier.
I would love to see some interviewer ask Santorum, "Let's say you get elected and you have your choice of two accomplishments. You can wipe out all forms of abortion and gay rights or you can eliminate taxes on the wealthy and on corporations…and Bernie Sanders will get his way on whichever option you don't select. What's it going to be?" I have the feeling that Santorum would be the only person who's been in a G.O.P. debate this year who'd opt for the former. Which is why he's at 3% and will probably never make it above 5.