Rick Santorum Glitter-Bombed: Presidential Candidate Hit With Glitter In South Carolina (PHOTOS, VIDEO)

As Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum finished his speech on Saturday following his third-place finish in the South Carolina primary , he was glitter-bombed by members of the Occupy Charleston movement, Summerville Patch reports .

It isn't clear whether Santorum himself was hit with glitter, but BuzzFeed reports that at least one member of the Duggar family, the reality-TV stars who've endorsed the socially conservative candidate, were hit with glitter.

Summerville Patch's Lindsay Street reports :

As Santorum closed his speech focusing on building strong family values, a gay rights activist said: "Except when you're gay" and threw a handful of glitter in the air.

Members of the Occupy Charleston group joined in with chants of "Rick, Rick, Rick, bigot, bigot, bigot" and singing "Santorum, Santorum, you're a bigot."

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Video from of the incident, available above from WCSC-5 , shows that the candidate appeared to take the glittering in stride. The Los Angeles Times reports that the protesters were escorted out of the auditorium.

Lindsey Boerma , a reporter for CBS News and The National Journal, tweeted a picture of the glitter mid-air from another perspective:

This isn't the first time Santorum has been the target of glitter. At an event in Iowa in December, a man who yelled "Stop the hate, taste the rainbow" threw glitter at the former Pennsylvania senator .

And Real Clear Politics reported on Thursday, just two days before the South Carolina primary, that people protesting Santorum's stance on social issues at a rally in Mt. Pleasant, S.C. threw glitter at the candidate.