Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Rick Santorum. Richard John Santorum Sr. ( / sænˈtɔːrəm / san-TOR-əm; born May 10, 1958) is an American politician, attorney, author, and political commentator who represented Pennsylvania in the United States Senate from 1995 to 2007. He was the Senate's third-ranking Republican during the final six years of his tenure.
The campaign for the neologism "santorum" started with a contest held in May 2003 by Dan Savage, a sex columnist and LGBT rights activist. Savage asked his readers to create a definition for the word "santorum" [1] [2] in response to then-US senator Rick Santorum 's views on homosexuality and comments about same sex marriage.
Rick Santorum. Former Republican U.S. Senator and 2012 and 2016 U.S. Presidential candidate Rick Santorum is opposed to homosexuality, seeing it as antithetical to a healthy, stable, traditional family. Santorum does not believe the right to privacy under the United States Constitution covers sexual acts, and criticized the US Supreme Court ...
By ISABELLE CHAPMAN Rick Santorum declared he would run, once again, for president on Wednesday. He told ABC News' George Stephanopoulos, "I'm ready to do this again." The former senator from ...
Stopping short of a full apology, the former GOP presidential candidate and Pennsylvania senator insisted he meant no offense when he told a conservative youth group last week that “we birthed a ...
Read Rick Santorum Fast Facts on CNN.com and learn more about the former Pennsylvania congressman and former presidential candidate.
RickSantorum.com. (archived - April 7, 2012) Former Senator Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania began a campaign for the 2012 Republican Party nomination for president of the United States in April 2011. He had been preparing for a run since shortly after the 2008 presidential election . Santorum lagged in the polls for all of 2011 until he surged in ...
Santorum has long been animated by his Catholic faith, vocally opposing abortion and gay rights. (He famously lumped homosexuality together with pedophilia and bestiality in an interview with the ...