Rick Santorum: I Regret That I Ever Said That "Man On Dog" Thing About Gays

Last night Rick Santorum sat down for a rare and lengthy interview with Rachel Maddow. Raw Story zeroes in on the SCOTUS portion:

MSNBC host Rachel Maddow shot down Republican presidential contender Rick Santorum on Wednesday when he tried to argue that Congress could overturn the Supreme Court’s ruling legalizing marriage equality. “You’re fundamentally wrong on civics,” Maddow said. “If there is a question as to the constitutionality of a law, it gets adjudicated. The second syllable in that word means it gets decided in the judiciary. The Supreme Court decides whether or not a law is constitutional. So you could not now pass a law that said, ‘We’re banning same-sex marriage.'” Santorum then argued that “Congress can pass anything it wants to pass,” regardless of the high court’s decisions to justify passing a new ban on same-sex marriages. “So you want them to pass a moot bill?” Maddow asked. “It wouldn’t be moot,” he insisted, saying that the court could find it “misread the tea leaves” between its ruling last month and a possible new bill.

After the above exchange, Maddow asks if Santorum believes that people choose to be gay. Minutes later Santorum said that he now regrets his "flippant" 2003 comment that decriminalizing homosexuality will lead to legalizing "man on dog" sex. He added, however, that he stands by his overall "slippery slope" contention about LGBT rights.