ANTI-GAY SANTORUM DROPS OUT OF PRESIDENTIAL RACE

The anti-gay American politician Rick Santorum has dropped out of the race to become the Republican Party’s candidate for the White House.

On Tuesday, in what was described as a surprise move, Santorum announced the suspension of his campaign at a press conference in Gettysburg.

“We made a decision to get into this race at our kitchen table, against all the odds, and we made a decision over the weekend that while this presidential race is over for me, and we will suspend our campaign effective today, we are not done fighting,” he said.

Santorum’s announcement suggests that he plans to run again in the future. While his campaign was not successful it has made him more visible and better known than he was before he began.

Santorum made his opposition to same-sex marriage a key part of his campaign and promised to invalidate same-sex marriages in U.S. states where they are legal.

He said that he considers homosexuality to be against “family values” and the antithesis of a healthy society and equated same-sex marriage with paedophilia and bestiality.

Santorum’s exit leaves Mitt Romney as the leading republican candidate to stand in the 2012 presidential elections.