Rick Santorum who is avidly known as being antigay has continued on his string on antigay pronouncements while on the trail in New Hampshire, stating that a man in jail would be a better parent than a same-sex couple.

The Los Angeles Times reported from Manchester, New Hampshire that Santorum claimed to quote an anti-poverty expert while explaining his case.

Santorum went on to state that that he had found that even fathers in ail who had abandoned their kids were better than no father at all to have in the child’s life. To quote Santorum later following this, he stated according to an article in The Advocate, that if a same-sex couple were to raise a child, they would be, “robbing the children of something that they need, they deserve, they have a right to. You may rationalize that this isn’t true, but in your own life and in your own heart, you know it’s true.”

This theme isn’t anything new for Santorum, sad to say and it sets him apart from other Republican candidates that are running for president. Recently, in Iowa, he finished behind Mitt Romney by eight votes and he also signed a pledge stating that same-sex parents are inferior to straight ones from the Iowa Family Leader. Santorum was the only one who did sign this pledge though, Romney and Ron Paul did not and Newt Gingrich ignored that portion in his letter.

It’s strange to think that after years of progress that Santorum could derail all of this if he were to be elected president in the coming election, since I’m sure there are plenty who simply just don’t agree with this…at all.