PhoboQuotable - Rick Santorum

"A majority of Americans still supports traditional marriage. It has been on the ballot in 31 states and won every time. However, the inside-the-Beltway power centers - the media, campaign contributors, and politically active special-interest groups - passionately want to, as the 2004 Massachusetts majority opinion put it, 'eradicate that stain' on our country. That's why, when last week's ruling in Boston knocked down the last defense against judicially mandated same-sex "marriage," there was largely silence from the political class. With the exception of a core group of conservatives, most politicians - including the president - continue to publicly back marriage while eagerly awaiting the day when judges will take this issue out of their hands. In this case, silence, as my former colleague Zell Miller once said, is not golden; it's yellow." - Former Sen. Rick Santorum, in an editorial in the Philadelphia Enquirer.