Florida Mom Confronts Santorum Over Gay Son's Rights

During a campaign stop in Florida, Rick Santorum told a mother that her gay son doesn't have the right to adopt children.

"I'm a proud mother of a gay son graduating from Georgetown law in May," the woman said during a campaign rally in Stuart, according to a video posted by ThinkProgress. "I want to know why he can't have the same rights as you have?"

"Every American child has the right, and the government should support the right, to have and know their mother and father and be raised by their mother and father,” he said, according to the Palm Beach Post.

Santorum said that while God has granted everyone some rights, the government has control over what's leftover and issues those "privileges" to people who are "healthy for society."