Sometimes an Ugly Thought Comes to Mind

It's weird how social conservatives sometimes have ideas that lead one to absurd places if drawn out to a logical end. Over the course of this campaign, former Senator Rick Santorum has made two assertions that I've found personally appalling: the first one being that even a woman and a man in prison might be preferable as parents to a gay couple, and the second being that a woman who was impregnated through rape should just make the best of a bad situation.

Separately, those notions are nasty enough.  Taken together, however, can one assume that Rick Santorum would find that a rape victim, her rapist, and the child of that rape, are a less-dysfunctional family unit than a family headed by a law-abiding, committed, consensual gay couple?  And that, whether he's inside of prison or outside of prison, the child of such a union benefits from having a rapist father in his or her life?

Just silly old things I wonder about.  I sure wouldn't mind if the former Senator clarified that a bit, though.