Earlier this week in New Hampshire, Santorum was grilled by a group of liberal college students on his religion and views on same-sex marriage. One student stated that "all men are created equal," so anyone should be able to have the same rights to happiness/the same rights to marriage. Santorum made a strong rebuttal by stating if anyone had the right to marry anyone else, polygamy would also be valid. The crowd of students became enraged with the statement.
Honestly, I think that everyone DOES have a right to be happy and if they need "to marry five other people," I'm okay with that, as long as those five other people are fine with that as well. My raging liberal social views may be getting in the way of this point, but Santorum's statement to the dubious college student was perfectly correct. If she believes that everyone should have any marriage rights they want, then she is also allowing polygamy. The crowd then refused to talk about polygamy in any sense, refuting it and just stating it's "different." Although Santorum is against both gay marriage and polygamy, we do share the view that if one wants the rights to happiness in marriage in any form, both of those relate. What makes either of them wrong or right if all parties agree to it, if it's justified in an individual's happiness? It's not like they're harming anyone.
The clip is unbiased, and is just a recording of Santorum's interviews and debates with the college students. You can view it here.
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