Rick Santorum defends Kirk Cameron’s remarks that gays are “unnatural” and “detrimental and destructive to society”

From Think Progress, Rick Santorum said:

I think both sides need to respect both sides… As someone who’s been very public about this, I respect people who disagree with me. I think they have a right to go out and make their case and sell it to the American public and try to change the law if they see fit. But, I don’t use language that, you know, calls them bigots or haters, and nor should they think that someone, because they simply disagree with them on that subject, should be treated the same. So I think rhetoric on both sides needs to be judicious and fair and respecting people’s difference of opinion.

Michelangelo Signoreli counters Santorum’s plea for “both sides to respect both sides”:

Last time I checked, people characterized as bigots were not being bullied in schools or bludgeoned on the streets. Bigots can even get married in every state in America — even to other bigots, if they choose — and they can obviously be open about their bigotry, even on national television. But the sad truth is, it is still dangerous in much of America for people to be openly gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender. And that’s because of bigotry of the kind espoused by Kirk Cameron.