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.

In April 2003, responding to the pending case of Lawrence v. Texas, then-Senator Rick Santorum stated, " If the Supreme Court says that you have the right to consensual ( gay ) 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.

Santorum then brought up the then-pending U. S. Supreme Court case Lawrence v. Texas, which challenged a Texas sodomy law, and said that " he did not have a problem with homosexuals, but a problem with homosexual acts ", " the right to privacy doesn't exist in my opinion in the United States Constitution ", and " sodomy laws properly exist to prevent acts which undermine the basic tenets of our society and the family.

The AP also quoted Santorum as saying, " 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.

It Takes a Family is a 2005 book by then Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum.

In 2005, when Rick Santorum was on Capitol Hill, then Senator Hillary Clinton teased him, " Remember, Rick, it takes a village!

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.

They included Democratic challenger Bob Casey, Jr. in Pennsylvania, who unseated conservative GOP incumbent Sen. Rick Santorum, and Tammy Duckworth in Illinois, a Democratic Congressional hopeful and an Army National Guard major who lost her legs in Iraq two years ago, who went on to lose to State Sen. Peter Roskam.

As he described in his article, in 2003, U. S. Senator Rick Santorum commented on a pending U. S. Supreme Court case involving sodomy laws ( primarily as a matter of Constitutional rights to Privacy and Equal Protection under the Law ).

" However, David Smith of the Human Rights Campaign professed outrage that Santorum placed being gay on the same moral and legal level as someone engaging in incest.

Sen. Rick Santorum was one of intelligent design's most vocal supporters on Capitol Hill.

During an interview with " Morning Joe " on MSNBC on Feb. 21, 2012, Reverend Graham said that Rick Santorum was most closely aligned to Christian values in his words and deeds and that Senator Santorum was certainly a Christian at heart.

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.

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.

" 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.

While campaigning in New Hampshire, Santorum engaged college students who asked about his position on same-sex marriage and suggested that allowing it would lead to the legalization of polygamy and other forms of marriage.

* Santorum position statement on gay marriage

Prior to the primary, Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum endorsed Sherwood and recorded an automated telephone call on Sherwood ’ s behalf, as did President George W. Bush.

He makes seven rounds on Pradakshina Vazhi ( holy walkway made of granite around Sanctum Santorum ).

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.

Santorum replied on CNN by saying that he does not " try to rig straw polls " and " talk to the Romney campaign and how many tickets they bought.

The Senate first approved the bill ( S. 686 CPS ) on Palm Sunday, March 20, on a 3-0 voice vote of Senators Bill Frist ( R-TN ), Rick Santorum ( R-PA ), and Mel Martinez ( R-FL ).

Although Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, Sen. Rick Santorum, and Rep. Tom Delay, brought the possibility of sanctioning Greer on charges of Contempt of Congress, Congress did not attempt to enforce the subpoenas or take any action against Greer.

The bipartisan Workplace Religious Freedom Act ( WRFA ) was introduced in the United States Senate by Senator Rick Santorum ( R-Pennsylvania ) and Senator John Kerry ( D-Massachusetts ) on March 17, 2005, and in the House of Representatives by Representatives Mark Souder ( R-IN ), Carolyn McCarthy ( D-NY ), Bobby Jindal ( R-LA ), and Anthony Weiner ( D-NY ).

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.

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.

In response to criticisms of the Institute stating that the amendment was a federal education policy requiring inclusion of alternatives to evolution be taught, which it was not, in 2003 intelligent design's three most prominent legislators, John Boehner, Judd Gregg and Santorum provided a letter to the Discovery Institute giving it the go ahead to invoke the amendment as evidence of " Congress's rejection of the idea that students only need to learn about the dominant scientific view of controversial topics ".

* Professor Ken Miller's claim that the Discovery Institute wrongly stated the Santorum Amendment was part of the Education Bill.

" 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

" Santorum faced criticism for his comments from Republican Senators including Olympia Snowe, Susan Collins, Lincoln Chafee, and Gordon H. Smith.

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.

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.