Rick Santorum,the fourth-place finisher in Saturday’s Straw Poll, took on new competitor Rick Perry over the Texas governor’s initial reaction to New York’s law legalizing gay marriage. Perry, a supporter of state’s rights, said he had “no problem” with New Yorkers deciding their own laws, then later Perry said he favored an amendment to the U.S. constitution to ban gay marriage.
“We have people who say, ‘States have the right to pass gay marriage,'” Santorum said last night in Waterloo. “I say, ‘No they do not because they do not have the right to do wrong.'” Perry took questions from the audience after his speech last night in Waterloo. Someone asked about the state’s rights issue. Perry said there are some issues which merit a different approach.
“For instance, we must pass a balanced budget amendment to the United States constitution,” he said. “And there are other issues out there that are just as important, that we, as people, believe in.” Perry is campaigning in Iowa again today, with a stop at the State Fair this morning.