Rick Santorum is set to announce his bid for the Republican presidential nomination this afternoon in Cabot, Pa.
This will be the second time the former senator from Pennsylvania has sought the presidential nomination. Santorum will announce his presidential bid on ABC News with George Stephanopolous.
Santorum is a long-time opponent of marriage equality and last June he equated LGBT activists with Nazis, and in October, he claimed that young people overwhelmingly support LGBT equality because the so-called gay agenda has “silenced the church.”
According to Advocate.com, Santorum enters an already crowded field of GOP presidential hopefuls, including several far-right antigay politicians who could be competing for Santorum’s standard conservative base. That field includes former neurosurgeon and noted antigay pundit Ben Carson, former Arkansas governor, Fox News host, and founder of the antigay “Chick-Fil-A Appreciation Day,” Mike Huckabee, and The Advocate‘s Phobie of the Year for 2014, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz. By comparison to her fellow candidates, former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina seems downright tolerant for admitting she would accept a Supreme Court ruling bringing legal same-sex marriage to all 50 states.
