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Rick Santorum issued a strongly critical statement in response to a federal appeals court's ruling that voter-approved legislation in California banning same-sex marriage is unconstitutional.

"Today's decision by the 9th Circuit is another in a long line of radical activist rulings by this rogue circuit - and it is precisely why I have called for that circuit to be abolished and split up," Santorum said in a statement Tuesday. "Marriage is defined and has always been defined as 'one man and one woman.' We simply cannot allow 50 different definitions of marriage."

Santorum's statement came a few hours after the Federal District Court of the Northern District of California ruled that "Proposition 8," passed in 2008, banning same-sex marriage violated constitutional law.

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