Santorum to kids of gay parents: You'd be better off with a dad in jail

[TheGlobalizer]

Way to shoot the messenger, guys.

I'm a bit more optimistic than Politico but he's not entirely incorrect.  No need to be willfully ignorant about prevailing trends.

I'd have aspired for a bit more tact in the delivery, but whatevs...

[TheGlobalizer]

Living in a society which has gone pretty far in tolerance I can say that it obviously isn't generally true that homosexuals can't be accepted in society. Sweden decriminalized homosexuality at about the same time as the US but today has gay marriage and being bigoted against gays is certainly more controversial than being gay.

FWIW, I think the same is mostly true here in the US, except in rural areas.  I'd consider Santorum's views to be a rather extreme outlier, the more common concern that conservative heteros have is that gay marriage would somehow "spoil" hetero marriage, particularly when viewed through a religious prism.

[TheGlobalizer]

Politico, you overstate the connection between genetic fitness and parental assessment of a gay child.  Trying to impute psychological behavior from some sort of scientist's-eye view of reproducibility is a significant error in your argument.  Fitness is merely a selective mechanism - if you were saying that people who a militantly anti-gay were more likely to produce offspring, and that was borne out by facts, and therefore gay-haters are selected for, you'd have a point.  But this "straights hate gays because of genetics" thing is pretty retarded on its face.  Put bluntly, people do not, in fact, think with their d**ks (DNA delivery systems).

That all said, there are a hell of a lot of gays.  Either they're not exactly selected against, or the genetics thing just doesn't have all that much to do with any of it.