“A woman nearby snapped: ‘He’s only here to sign his own book. And Rocek said, “It would be funny if we got Santorum to sign this book.” (To discredit Santorum, Savage and his readers in 2003 came up with a nasty definition of “Santorum” that now often appears on Internet searches for Santorum’s name.) She held up a copy of a book by the gay writer Dan Savage called “The Kid,” which is about how he and his partner adopted a son.
