The Future of the National Organization for Marriage is Rick Santorum

Isn't it sad that the National Organization of Marriage - faced with marriage equality decisions in Iowa and marriage equality legislation in Vermont, Maine and potentially New Hampshire - goes to look for its future, and ends up finding Rick Santorum?

Yes, that Rick Santorum, who was so right-wing that Pennsylvania voters kicked him out of the U.S. Senate by nearly 20 percentage points in 2006.  That Rick Santorum who once compared LGBT people to those who have sex with dogs.  That Rick Santorum, who was so unbelievably crass when it came to the subject of gay rights, and his last name was given a dubious definition by columnist Dan Savage.

But it's true.  The folks that brought you the Gathering Storm ad, as well as the fifteen minutes of fame for Miss California have now turned to Rick Santorum to preach their message of hate and inequality.  Here's a few lines from an email that went out today, on Rick Santorum's behalf, raising money for the National Organization for Marriage:

An out-of-control supreme court has forced same-sex marriage on Iowa and an out-of-touch legislature has done the same in Vermont. States like New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York and Maine are in the fight of their lives to uphold marriage as the union of one man and one woman.

Understand this: these fights are about much more than these states alone. There is a concerted effort to use passage of same-sex marriage in these states to force it on every other state in the union. How? Through the repeal of the Defense of Marriage Act! ...

I was in the Senate chamber on that historic day back in 1996 when an overwhelming majority of Senators and Congressmen came together to pass the federal Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), which is the ONLY federal law that protects marriage as the union of husband and wife.

You know, it's funny to see Rick Santorum recollecting the "glory" days of 1996.  Too bad for Santorum that ten years later, Congressional idealogues like himself, Marilyn Musgrave, Charlie Taylor, and dozens of others who championed DOMA were booted out of office.

It should be telling that the National Organization for Marriage longs for the days of 1996.  But it's not surprising...their talking points against marriage equality are clearly stuck in a politics of the past.