It Takes a Family, by Rick Santorum: on Civil Rights

Rick Santorum: Same-sex marriage is unprecedented social revolution

Liberals believe that the traditional family is neither natural nor vital, that it's an antiquated social convention which has not only outlived its usefulness, but is now inherently discriminatory & repressive toward legitimate alternative "families."

Every known society has some form of marriage. And it's always about bringing together a male and a female into the kind of sexual union where the interests of children under the care of their own mother and father are protected. Marriage is the word for the way in which we connect a man, a woman, and their children into one loving family.

Rick Santorum: Marriage Protection Amendment is last resort, but needed

Like so many important issues in our nation's history, it may take years for the Marriage Protection Amendment to pass. But like many other great struggles to ensure the common good, I am confident that it will one day become law.

Rick Santorum: Affirmative program for minority business-building

But it is wrong to believe the African-American story is one of victimhood only. To think in those terms is to deny the real accomplishments of the black community in our history, [especially] a tradition of business acumen and entrepreneurship.

There remains a very troubling disparity between whites and blacks. And this is really the result of a missing economic fundamental: business building and wealth creation.

Surely the most AFFIRMATIVE program to build up America's minority families would be one aimed at just this: using market-based solutions and public-private partnership emphasizing BUSINESS CREATION. We need to hang up "No Denials" signs in urban communities--the opposite of red-lining.