WASHINGTON (CBSDC) — A survivor from the 1999 Columbine school shootings is calling out Republican presidential hopeful Rick Santorum for comments he made comparing Kim Davis, the Kentucky clerk who refused to issue gay marriage licenses, to a young woman who was murdered in the school shootings.

During Wednesday’s debate, Santorum compared Davis to a teenage woman who was killed during the school shootings, saying they were both mocked for their Christian faith.

“Sixteen years ago this country was tremendously inspired by a young woman who faced a gunman in Columbine and was challenged about her faith and refused to deny God. We saw her as a hero,” said Santorum. “Today, someone who refuses to defy a judge’s unconstitutional verdict is ridiculed and criticized, chastised, because she’s standing up and not denying her God and her faith.”

YouTube user Amanda Stair-Duran says she is appalled by the comments and that she and other Columbine friends are “livid.” The woman says she even took to Santorum’s Facebook page to write a personal message, which she says she doesn’t expect to get a response from.

“I told him that as a library survivor myself, I was highly, highly offended by his comparison because not only is the story about Cassie untrue… Ms. Davis never had to hide under a table while everyone got shot around her, she has never been held at gun point at any point in her life,” Stair-Duran says in the video. “The fact that she is being compared to someone who was killed in the library, isn’t even alive to tell her side of the story.”

Stair-Duran says Santorum should keep in mind just because the massacre occurred 16 years ago, that there are still thousands who are personally affected by the tragedy today.

“It’s just degrading to all of us who survived, all of us who were there. Frankly, I think that Mr. Santorum owes everyone in the Columbine community an apology, because everyone over here on my end is downright livid.”