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Rick Santorum Touts Endorsements From Anti-Gay Extremists In Effort To Stay Relevant (ThinkProgress)

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As he struggles to keep his floundering presidential campaign afloat, Rick Santorum is hoping to impress social conservative voters in Iowa by touting the endorsements of fringe anti-gay activists. Yesterday and then again today, the Santorum campaign sent two email messages to supporters highlighting endorsements from Karen Testerman of New Hampshire’s vehemently anti-gay Cornerstone Policy Research and Cary Gordon of Iowa’s Cornerstone World Outreach.

New Hampshire’s Cornerstone is leading the charge to repeal marriage equality in the state and is closely linked to anti-gay groups like the Alliance Defense Fund, the Family Research Council, Focus on the Family, and the National Organization for Marriage. The organization has also “endorsed discredited ‘ex-gay’ therapy outfits like Exodus International, Love Won Out, PFOX, and the National Association for Research and Therapy of Homosexuality (NARTH).”

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Complete article at Think Progress : http://bit.ly/sZb13Y