Republican presidential candidate Rick
Santorum says he wants a uniform marriage definition throughout the
United States.
Appearing Monday at a breakfast in
Washington hosted by the Christian Science Monitor, Santorum,
an outspoken opponent of marriage equality, said that allowing states
to define marriage would create “too much confusion.”
“I believe we need a national
standard for marriage,” Santorum
told reporters. “I don't think we can have a standard from one
state to another on what marriage is.” He added that he wants “to
define marriage the way it was defined for 4,000 years of human
history.”
Texas Senator Ted Cruz and Wisconsin
Governor Scott Walker have each backed a constitutional amendment
which would allow individual states to decide the issue. Cruz has
already introduced such a measure.
“I think that's a mistake,”
Santorum said of the proposed amendment. “I argued that 10 years
ago when others wanted to do that 10 years ago. You can't have a
hodgepodge of marriage … it just creates too much confusion out
there on a variety of different levels.”