Senator Rick Santorum Is In Hot Water Over Comments He Made About Homosexuality But Santorum Insists
NBC ID: ARQNJ6XHCY | Production Unit: Today Show | Media Type: Aired Show | Media ID: NY-TDY-20030423-0001 | Air Date(s): 04/23/2003 | Event Date(s): 04/22/2003Transcript
Event Date(s): 04/22/2003 | Event Location(s): Washington, DC; | Description: Senator Rick Santorum is in hot water today over controversial comments he made about homosexuality while speaking about a case currently before the US Supreme Court. Santorum, however, insists he didn't do anything wrong. INT WASHINGTON DC MS: Senators Santorum and Kay Bailey Hutchison at press conference near reporters as Santorum speaks and shot zooms to just Santorum. MS: Santorum walks down hallway. EXT DAY WASHINGTON DC MS: Supreme Court exterior. GFX: Background of tape recorder in use. GFX: Associated Press logo. STILL: Insert of Santorum. GFX SUPERS:"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. You have the right to do anything." INT WASHINGTON DC (SENATE TV SYSTEM) MS: Santorum delivers speech with empty Senate chairs behind him. INT 2 MS: Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle speaks at a press conference next to another man (the man's face is partially seen). INT MS: Democratic Presidential candidate Senator John Edwards in interview. MS: Democratic Presidential candidate Senator John Kerry delivers speech. EXT DAY MS: Santorum walks down sidewalk with an aide. CLIPS: (FOX NEWS CHANNEL) Santorum in interview with man in "Special Report With Brit Hume," and Santorum saying "I didn't say anything that needed to be apologized for." INT WASHINGTON DC 2002-12-06 2 MS: Then-Incoming Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott walks to podium on stage next to an applauding Senator Strom Thurmond during a celebration of Thurmond's 100th birthday. INT MS: Human Rights Campaign's Elizabeth Birch types on computer. MS: In interview Birch says "It is disgusting. It is repugnant. It is insulting. And the Republican leadership should repudiate him and his comments." INT WASHINGTON DC MS: NBC's Joe Johns signs off on-camera.