In an interview with the Associated Press published April 20, 2003, Santorum stated 'If the Supreme Court says that you have the right to consensual (gay) sex within your home, then you have the right to bigamy, you have the right to polygamy, you have the right to incest, you have the right to adultery' which critics noted conflated gay sex together with incest, polygamy, and zoophilia as deviant sexual behaviors that threaten society and the family.

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