Santorum Lying Again About Gay Marriage

Just when you thought Rick Santorum was gone, the Philadelphia Inquirer exhumes him for an op-ed piece. Mr. Santorum uses the paper to make a ridiculous and lie-filled case against gay marriage. He uses Norway as an example of how gay marriage will destroy a country.

"Look at Norway. It began allowing same-sex marriage in the 1990s. In just the last decade, its heterosexual-marriage rates have nose-dived and its out-of-wedlock birthrate skyrocketed to 80 percent for firstborn children. Too bad for those kids who probably won’t have a dad around, but we can’t let the welfare of children stand in the way of social affirmation, can we?"

The problem? It’s not true. Norway’s birth rate jumped in the 1980’s well before same sex marriage was legalized in 1993.

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