One Iowa in the News: Santorum: Boot liberal federal judges, defund Planned Parenthood
from The Des Moines Register.
Urbandale, Ia. – Former U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum today proposed aconservative social and cultural policy agenda that includes removing liberal federal appeals court judges, defunding Planned Parenthood, kicking openly gay soldiers out of the military and seeking a constitutional ban on abortions.
The Pennsylvania Republican, who is seeking his party’s presidential nomination, said that after campaigning in each of the state’s 99 counties he understands Iowans want more from a candidate than policy stances on taxes and spending and reviving the economy. That includes putting God back in government, recognizing that faith “is at the heart of American exceptionalism,” he said.
In a warmly received speech to about 50 people at an Urbandale office complex near his campaign headquarters, Santorum also said he believes the core of the American experience is the family, and without strong families, there cannot be a strong and vibrant nation.
“You cannot have limited government if you have broken families because someone has to pick up the pieces, and the ones who pick up the pieces are the taxpayers,” Santorum said.
...Troy Price, executive director of One Iowa, the state’s largest gay rights group, said Santorum’s remarks were an unfortunate attack on gay and lesbian Americans and he considered the speech a sign of a “very desperate campaign.”
...Santorum also said that he would use the president’s executive branch authority to defend in court the Defense of Marriage Act, which defines marriage as being between one man and one woman. He would also ban military chaplains from performing same-sex marriages on military bases.
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