Former Sen. Rick Santorum (R-PA) on Sunday continued to lament the Supreme Court ruling on same-sex marriage, and said that the decision should prompt the country’s leaders to promote marriage.
“The most important power the President has is the power of the bully pulpit,” he said on “Fox & Friends.” “Can you imagine if instead of this president spending all his time talking about global warming, if he talked about the importance of marriage and fathers and mothers taking responsibility and raising their children in healthy homes?”
Santorum said that in the wake of the Supreme Court ruling, the country should “have programs that support the idea of marriage and togetherness in order to raise children.”
“That, to me, is the most important thing we can do as a society, is begin to lift up marriage as an institution that’s important for the survival of our country because too many children are falling through the cracks,” he said.
Santorum said that the gay marriage ruling “cemented” that the U.S. does not link children with marriage, and “therefore you’re going to see more children growing up in unmarried homes.”
He also said the Supreme Court should perhaps face elections and be forced to take all appeals following the ruling legalizing same-sex marriage across the country.
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