Wow, Senator Rick Santorum (R-PA) has really been on a roll lately.
He’s apparently decided he wants to put forward an “ideological diversity” amendment to Title IX that would define remarks criticizing Israel as anti-semitic, penalizing universities that receive federal funds for exercising that messy thing called free speech. (How are we ever going to explain this to Israeli dissident peace activists and scholars? They have this idiotic notion that they can speak out about what they perceive as atrocities. Going to have to explain some things to them, aren’t we?)
Yesterday, Santorum set us straight on those darned gay people.
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Two-parent opposite sex families, says Santorum, are good. Requiring people to work is good. So is banning late-term abortions and giving religion a greater role in government. Traditional welfare, on the other hand, hurts the family. Homosexuality, feminism, liberalism all undermine the family. Even parts of the Constitution can harm the family, he says.
Especially when the Constitution supports gays. Right now, the 44 year old is fuming over the a Supreme Court challenge to Texas’ anti-sodomy law.
“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,” he says
“All of those things are antithetical to a healthy, stable, traditional family,” Santorum said. “And that’s sort of where we are in today’s world, unfortunately. It all comes from, I would argue, this right to privacy that doesn’t exist, in my opinion, in the United States Constitution.”
Santorum who calls himself “a compassionate conservative” has sailed up the ranks of the Senate Republican leadership with the help of the far right wing of the GOP. Should Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn., retire in 2006, Santorum says he will seek the post.
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I need to throw away my dictionary, because my definition of “compassionate” is clearly wrong. It says all this loony stuff about alleviating suffering. And caring, it says that compassion somehow involves caring for and respecting other people.
If I even try to address this man’s attitudes toward women and reproduction right now my head will explode.
Dr. Noodles, who brought yesterday’s remarks to my attention, was sitting in his office today singing a little lovesong to this fine legislator.
shit for brains
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Everybody sing!
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