Rick Santorum Calls Florida Glitter Bombers 'Intolerant' [VIDEO]

Occupy Tampa Launches Glitter Bomb

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When the three Occupy Tampa protesters tossed their glitter bomb at the GOP primary candidate, deputies at the scene told the Tampa Bay Times one of them shouted "stop the hate" as he threw. As officers escorted the protesters from the hall, another shouted, "Rick Santorum is a homophobe!"

All three of the main demonstrators were later confirmed OWS supporters who'd come to protest Santorum's positions on gay rights.

This is hardly the first time protesters have gone after Rick Santorum for his stance on gay issues, from his opposition to gay marriage to his belief that gay parents should not be allowed to adopt children.

Sex and relationship advice columnist Dan Savage was so infuriated by the then-senator's positions that he launched a viral web campaign to redefine the Republican's last name as a neologism for "a byproduct of anal sex," a humiliation Santorum still has trouble overcoming.

'This is about the radical left'

But on Fox News Wednesday night with Megyn Kelly, Rick Santorum asserted that it was not his own intolerance that was the problem: it was the protesters' in refusing to accept his controversial beliefs.

"All the people who have done that so far, at least in events I've been involved in, have been part of the Occupy Wall Street folks," Santorum said, referencing earlier attacks by groups like Occupy Charleston who called him a "hate monger" and a "bigot" at a campaign event in South Carolina.

"This is about the radical left, who of course, it is not about tolerance," Santorum asserted. "It's about trying to shut down free speech, anybody who disagrees with them."

"Look, I'm not intimidated by this kind of stuff," he continued. "This is exactly what I'm fighting for, making sure all voices are heard and legitimately respected."