A spokesman for the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee described Santorum's views as "divisive and reckless", while conservative activists saw them as a "principled opposition to same-sex marriage". The interview prompted an angry reaction from gay rights activists and some politicians. Santorum said he was arguing against any relationship, other than heterosexual marriage between a man and a woman, which he viewed as the basis of a stable society, when he listed homosexuality, pedophilia, and bestiality as examples of what marriage was not. Does that undermine the fabric of our society? I would argue yes, it does. And 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. Because, again, I would argue, they undermine the basic tenets of our society and the family. We have laws in states, like the one at the Supreme Court right now, that has sodomy laws and they were there for a purpose. And that includes a variety of different acts, not just homosexual." He continued: Santorum said that, while he had no problem with homosexuality, he did have a problem with homosexual acts, "as I would with acts of other, what I would consider to be, acts outside of traditional heterosexual relationships. Santorum believes this attitude leads to an unhealthy culture. He argued that moral relativism involves accepting any adult consensual behavior in the privacy of people's homes, even if the behavior might otherwise be considered deviant. In an interview with the Associated Press on April 7, 2003, Santorum said there is a relationship between the Catholic Church sex abuse scandal and liberalism and relativism. Google refused, responding that the company does not remove content from search results except in very limited circumstances. In September 2011, Santorum asked Google to remove the definition from its search engine index. In 2010, Savage said he would take the site down if Santorum donated US$5 million plus interest to Freedom to Marry, a group advocating legal recognition of same-sex marriages. It's not, you know, man on child, man on dog, or whatever the case may be." Savage announced the winning entry, which defined "santorum" as " the frothy mixture of lube and fecal matter that is sometimes the byproduct of anal sex." He created a web site, (and ), to promote the definition, which became a top internet search result, displacing the senator's official website on many search engines, including Google, Yahoo! Search, and Bing. In his comments, Santorum had stated that "n every society, the definition of marriage has not ever to my knowledge included homosexuality. Savage asked his readers to create a definition for the word "santorum" in response to then-US senator Rick Santorum's views on homosexuality and comments about same sex marriage. The campaign for the neologism "santorum" started with a contest held in May 2003 by Dan Savage, a sex columnist and LGBT rights activist. Savage wearing a shirt referencing the neologism campaign.
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