The group said Santorum was " exactly right " and attributed criticism of Santorum to the " gay thought police ".

The Santorum Amendment was a failed proposed amendment to the 2001 education funding bill ( which became known as the No Child Left Behind Act ), proposed by Republican Rick Santorum ( who was at that time the United States Senator for Pennsylvania ), which promoted the teaching of intelligent design while questioning the academic standing of evolution in U. S. public schools.

One result of this briefing was that in 2001 Senator Santorum proposed incorporating pro-intelligent design language, crafted in part by the Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture, into the No Child Left Behind bill.

Santorum then went on to quote David DeWolf, a Senior Fellow of the Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture, as how the Institute's agenda was justified and would benefit students.

Phillip E. Johnson, retired UC Berkeley law professor, leading proponent of intelligent design, founding advisor of the Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture, and " father " of the intelligent design movement, assisted Santorum in phrasing the amendment.

The couple hosted Cheney at a private political fundraiser for Republican Senator Rick Santorum who was up for reelection in 2006 against former state treasurer Bob Casey, Jr. who was born and raised in Scranton, a city just north of Jackson Township.

On April 7, 2003, Sen. Rick Santorum referred to the oral arguments in Lawrence when asked his views on homosexuality: " We have laws in states, like the one at the Supreme Court right now, that has sodomy laws and they were there for a purpose .... And if the Supreme Court says that you have the right to consensual 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.

" Working through the Center for Science and Culture Johnson wrote the early draft language of the Santorum Amendment, which encouraged a " Teach the Controversy " approach to evolution in public school education.

Savage invited his readers to create a sex-related definition for " santorum " to " memorialize the Santorum scandal by attaching his name to a sex act that would make his big, white teeth fall out of his big, empty head.

" After the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee demanded that Santorum resign as chairman of the Republican Senate Caucus, Concerned Women for America released a statement criticizing the " gay thought police " and saying Santorum was " exactly right.

In the interview by Associated Press reporter Lara Jakes Jordan, when asked for his position on the Roman Catholic Church sex abuse scandal, Santorum said that the scandal involved priests and post-pubescent men in " a basic homosexual relationship " ( rather than child sexual abuse ), which led the interviewer to ask if homosexuality should be outlawed.

LGBT rights groups which condemned the comments by Santorum included the Pennsylvania Gender Rights Coalition, OutFront, the Center for Lesbian and Gay Civil Rights, and the Human Rights Campaign.

Director of Concerned Women for America's Culture and Family Institute, Robert Knight, criticized those Republicans who spoke out against Santorum, " Maybe they ought to think about switching parties.

It shows great disloyalty to their party to join the sworn enemies in calling for the head Santorum.

" Vice President for Communications at the conservative Family Research Council Genevieve Wood supported Santorum's remarks, and commented, " I think the Republican party would do well to follow Senator Santorum if they want to see pro-family voters show up on Election Day.

" In an interview with Fox News Channel, Santorum said he was not going to apologize for his remarks, " I do not need to give an apology based on what I said and what I'm saying now – I think this is a legitimate public policy discussion.

Results were certified by the Caucus but not by the Republican party who declared it a split decision due to missing reports from 8 precincts, but who later certified the caucus as a win for Santorum.

Notable College Republicans have included prominent Republican strategist Lee Atwater, Americans for Tax Reform President Grover Norquist, former U. S. Senator Rick Santorum, U. S. Senator Roger Wicker, North Carolina Congressman Patrick McHenry, conservative activist Morton Blackwell, disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff, former Virginia Governor Jim Gilmore, McCain Campaign Manager Rick Davis, lobbyist and McCain advisor Charles R. Black, Jr., Texas Republican Party Chairman Emeritus Tom Pauken, Christian Coalition executive director and political consultant Ralph E. Reed, Jr., New York political consultant Roger Stone and political consultant Joshua Workman.

* Sen. Rick Santorum ( R-PA ), Defeated for re-election

Other notable members of the Catholic Campaign for America include Rick Santorum and Pat Buchanan.

Wofford narrowly lost his 1994 bid for re-election to Republican Congressman Rick Santorum, 32 years his junior, who defeated Wofford 49 %– 47 %.

On January 4, 2007, Wofford was present for the swearing-in of Senator Bob Casey, Jr., who defeated Santorum in his bid for a third term.

In a follow-up statement released after the Associated Press interview was published, Santorum said some of his remarks were " taken out of context ", and defended his comments in the interview asserting " It is simply a reflection of the law.

Santorum defended his remarks, declaring that his comments were not intended to equate homosexuality with incest and adultery, but rather to challenge the specific legal position that the right to privacy prevents the government from regulating consensual acts among adults, a position he disputes, because he does not believe that there is a general constitutional right to privacy.

Democratic politicians responding to Santorum's remarks included Former Governor of Vermont Howard Dean, who called on Santorum, " to resign from his post as Republican Conference chairman.

* Rick Santorum, former U. S. Senator from Pennsylvania ( 1995 – 2007 )

Santorum received campaign contributions from AccuWeather's president, Joel Myers, a frequent contributor to Republican candidates.

" Seven years later, her silence is rewarded, as she becomes a Senator for the State of New York, a victory made possible in part by money from the health care industry ; she is second only to Rick Santorum as the Senate's highest recipient of health care industry campaign donations.

In 2011 an exploratory committee for conservative Republican former senator Rick Santorum used a variant of the phrase (" Fighting to make America America again ") on its website ; told of the slogan's derivation from the Hughes poem, Santorum stated he had " nothing to do with " its use by the committee.

Securing sponsorship from the Rick Santorum For President campaign, he finished 19th in the race.

Readers of blog then provided links to archived recordings of Twin Cities Public Television broadcasts from 2003 showing Yecke saying that teaching intelligent design was a decision local school districts could undertake and teaching intelligent design is supported by the Santorum Amendment.

He briefly considered running against Senator Rick Santorum in 2000, but withdrew his name from consideration and backed eventual nominee, Pittsburgh-area Congressman Ron Klink.

Senator from Pennsylvania Rick Santorum.

Santorum has played a crucial role in promoting intelligent design through his Santorum Amendment ; however, following the Center's defeat in the Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District case ( see below ), Santorum resigned from the Law Center's advisory board.

In 2006, Democrat Bob Casey Jr. received 54 % of its vote when he unseated incumbent Republican US Senator Rick Santorum and Ed Rendell received 56 % of the vote against Lynn Swann.

In 2006 Democrat Tim Seip won the heavily Republican 125th House district and Bob Casey Jr. carried Schuylkill when he unseated incumbent Republican US Senator Rick Santorum.

Governor Ed Rendell narrowly carried it against Lynn Swann while Republican Rick Santorum narrowly carried it against Bob Casey in 2006.

In 2006, Democrat Bob Casey Jr. received 51 % of its vote when he unseated incumbent Republican US Senator Rick Santorum and Ed Rendell received 50. 6 % of the vote against Lynn Swann.

In 2006, Democrat Bob Casey Jr. received 55 % of its vote when he unseated incumbent Republican US Senator Rick Santorum and Ed Rendell received 50. 2 % of the vote against Lynn Swann.

In March 2012, Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum caused a minor controversy when he publicly took the position that Puerto Rico, a Spanish-speaking territory, should be required to make English its primary language as a condition of statehood.

Henry Olsen of the American Enterprise Institute has named Americans Governor Mike Huckabee, Senator Rick Santorum, and political advisor Michael Gerson ( all members of the Republican Party ) as exemplars of the Christian democratic philosophy in the United States ..

Former Republican U. S. Senator and former U. S. Presidential candidate Rick Santorum, an opponent of LGBT rights in general, has said that he has " a problem with homosexual acts " and does not believe the right to privacy under the United States Constitution covers sexual acts, and also criticized the US Supreme Court ruling in the case of Lawrence v. Texas that ruled to the contrary.

The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee demanded that Santorum resign as chairman of the Republican Senate Caucus.

On September 22, 2011, during a Republican primary debate in Orlando, Florida, Santorum replied to a question posed by a gay soldier deployed in Iraq who asked the candidates whether, as president, they would take measures to " circumvent " the repeal of " don't ask, don't tell ".

Holden won re-election to a third term by defeating Republican nominee Christian Leinbach, a staffer to U. S. Senator Rick Santorum, 59 %- 41 %.

In the 2012 U. S. presidential election, Gallagher endorsed Republican primary candidate Rick Santorum, an endorsement which was promoted by the Santorum campaign.