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Date Posted: 07:50:20 04/27/03 Sun
Author: Steve
Subject: Our Senator, Rick Santorum

I heard a commentator from the Boston Globe yesterday say that in ancient Roman times, a 'Santorum' must have been a place where senators would go to say whatever was on their minds, regardless of how bad it sounded. Could be true...

To quote the good Senator:

"IF THE SUPREME Court says that you have the right to consensual (gay) sex within your home, then you have the right to bigamy, you have the right to polygamy, you have the right to incest, you have the right to adultery. You have the right to anything"

(funny, this doesn't look like media spin-out of context-evil liberal journalists stuff; I think his words are fairly clear)

I think that Sentaor Santorum just doesn't get it. Is he NOT a Republican? Does not the Republican party, at least in THEORY, stand for keeping the government out of our individual lives? Personally, I don't CARE what people do in their own bedrooms, as long as no one is forced to do anything & you don't involve children. The acts he listed are not all morally equivalent. I particularly find the reference to adultery telling: while I will give Senator Santorum the benefit of the doubt when it comes to his marital vows, many (many, many, many) of his peers in the Washington DC have made adultery the official sport of Congress. If the Senator wants to stamp out evil as he sees it (and sodomy is the same as adultery in his mind...), then perhaps he should start his moral crusade in the halls of Congress and leave consenting adults everywhere else the hell alone.

In the end, Congress has much to accomplish: we are awash in red ink, roads are bad, some schools are bad, we face one international crisis after another. The Senator has alot to do...these are trying times. Providing moral commentary of the evils of non-traditional sex should not be high on his (or any other politicians) list of things to do.

- Steve

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