Santorum gets "glitter-bombed"

Republican presidential candidate, former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum signs his autograph on a hat during a campaign stop at a restaurant and bar on Friday, Dec. 30, 2011 in Ames, Iowa. / AP Photo/Evan Vucci
Republican presidential candidate, former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum signs his autograph on a hat during a campaign stop at a restaurant and bar on Dec. 30, 2011 in Ames, Iowa.
/ AP Photo/Evan VucciJOHNSTON, Iowa -- Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum was greeted with a fistful of glitter as he arrived at his final campaign event Friday night.
An unidentified man shouted "Stop the hate! Taste the rainbow!" as he threw glitter at the former Pennsylvania senator before being ushered out of Okoboji Grille, where Santorum was scheduled to watch Iowa and Oklahoma in the Insight Bowl. Santorum nonchalantly brushed the purple glitter off his shoulders and walked away without acknowledging the man.
"Glitter-bombing" has becoming the emerging form of protests of certain gay rights activists. Presidential candidate Newt Gingrich was glitter-bombed at a book signing in September. The socially conservative Santorum has made family values and opposition to same-sex marriage central planks of his campaign.
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'Taste The Rainbow' - yeah, that's hate speech alright.
It's nothing like the clearly submissive 'love speech' that Santorum uses when he directly links homosexuality with bestialiy and pedophelia. Where he spews his hatred for gays by treating them as less than human and an evil greater than terrorism, etc.
How about the assaults that Santorum has perpetrated upon anyone who dares think in ways different from him?
Have you ever listened to what Santorum actually says?
"Taliban aren't as extreme as the Evangelical Christian Right conservative freaks.