n ” (Reuters)-former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum is a conservative who is running in the Republican Iowa Caucus, who started the presidential nomination race countries on Tuesday.
* The Santorum campaign website says he once called “Tea Party-type guy.” before there was a tea party He says he fought for fiscal reforms such as balancing the budget of the United States and revise programs right “before it was in fashion.” However, Santorum is famous for their campaign against abortion, homosexuality and criticism against the teaching of evolution in schools.
* A devout Catholic descendants of Italy, he often mentions his faith. Santorum and his wife have seven children.
* Santorum has risked a campaign in the Iowa Caucus. In a State where voters value personal contact with candidates, Santorum has visited all 99 Iowa counties and won the support of Bob Vander Plaats, head of the family of the leader of the Christian groups. Even finished third place in Iowa could provide sufficient momentum for Santorum brings her to the next contest in New Hampshire and more importantly in South Carolina, which seem more positive on the most conservative candidate.
* In 2003, Santorum took heat for comments that appear to equate homosexuality with incest, bigamy, adultery, and polygamy. In an interview, Santorum said the Court should enforce the laws of the State as the Texas sodomy law that was before the High Court. “If the Supreme Court says that You have the right to consensual sex within your home, then you have the right to bigamy, You have the right to polygamy, You have the right to incest, You have the right to adultery,” said Santorum.