Weston Wamp and Chuck FleischmannWeston Wamp is a member of the generation of “millennials” born since 1981 that, according a Pew Research Center poll last year, supports same-sex marriage by 70 percent.
Still, the 27-year-old Wamp, who hopes to unseat incumbent Chuck Fleischmann in the Aug. 7 Republican primary for Tennessee’s 3rd Congressional District, was enthusiastic to announce Friday he’d gotten the endorsement of former U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum.
The conservative Pennsylvania lawmaker came in second in the 2012 Republican presidential primary — and caught flak for his staunch opposition to gay marriage and abortion, even in cases of incest or rape.
“Sen. Santorum and I are totally committed to the sanctity of human life and the strengthening of our families,” Wamp said in a news release.
It quoted Santorum as saying, “Weston is exactly the kind of person we desperately need in Washington right now.”