Santorum Uses 'God Hates Fags' Analogy on National Television

Rick Santorum dropped an "f bomb" on national television and it wasn't "f*ck."

In an appearance on CBS' Sunday morning political news show "Face the Nation," former Pennsylvania senator and 2012 GOP presidential hopeful lamented the recent amending of the controversial "religious liberties" law in Indiana - claiming that anti-gay discrimination based on religion was more or less different than plain old garden variety discrimination, ' target='_blank'>Gay Star News reports.

Using an analogy involving Christian bakers and gay-owned print shops, Santorum used the old "how dare you be intolerant of my intolerance of you" argument to make his tenuous point.

"Tolerance is a two-way street," Santorum said. "If you are a print shop and you are a gay man, should you be forced to print 'God Hates Fags' for the Westboro Baptist Church because they hold those signs up? ... Should the government force you to do that?"

And that's what these [Christian baker] cases are all about," he continued. "This is about the government coming and saying, 'No, we're not going to make you do this.' And this is where I just think we need some space to say let's have some tolerance, be a two-way street."

Raw Story notes that Sarah Warbelow of the Human Rights Campaign was quick to take down Santorum's argument.

"The [Indiana] legislation would have done no such thing" Warbelow told "Face the Nation" host Norah O'Donnell. "It explicitly allowed individuals to use their religious beliefs to undermine other types of laws that provide protection, not only against gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people, but against other religious minorities and in some instances, against African-Americans and Asian-Americans."