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Glad This Guy's in The Senate

Excerpts from the AP interview with Rick Santorum, US Senator, Pennsylvania (R)

I have no problem with homosexuality. I have a problem with homosexual acts. As I would with acts of other, what I would consider to be, acts outside of traditional heterosexual relationships. And that includes a variety of different acts, not just homosexual. I have nothing, absolutely nothing against anyone who's homosexual. If that's their orientation, then I accept that. and I have no problem with someone who has other orientations. The question is, do you act upon those orientations? So it's not the person, it's the person's actions. And you have to separate the person from their actions.

Come again? Santorum's follow up:

You say, well, it's my individual freedom. Yes, but it destroys the basic unit of our society because it condones behavior that's antithetical to strong healthy families. Whether it's polygamy, whether it's adultery, where it's sodomy, all of those things, are antithetical to a healthy, stable, traditional family.

Yeah. Steve and Bob are getting it on and your family life is over. Remember that one.

In every society, the definition of marriage has not ever to my knowledge included homosexuality. That's not to pick on homosexuality. It's not, you know, man on child, man on dog, or whatever the case may be. It is one thing. And when you destroy that you have a dramatic impact on the quality -

At this point Santorum is interrupted by the AP reporter with the following line:

AP: I'm sorry, I didn't think I was going to talk about "man on dog" with a United States senator, it's sort of freaking me out.

Glad I'm not the only one. In that first italicized paragraph, I think Santorum is actually quoting Gore Vidal of all people. Bizzare. My Salon Guide to Contemporary Authors has this on Vidal:

The City and the Pillar was the first American novel to deal frankly and positively with homosexual love. With it, Vidal assumed a lifelong role: that of a Cold War-era Marquis de Sade, shocking bien-pensant America with his real and fictional enormities. (He resists the "gay" label-saying that there is no such thing as a homosexual person, only homosexual acts.)

I think during the next election the Democratic Party should run ads that blast Santorum for the homophobe that he is while including the following tagline: "Rick Santorum: He's Also A Fan Of Gore Vidal. Who Is A Fag." This will simultaneously draw the ire of the non-homophobe crowd while cutting out some of his bullshit "we gotta protect the Amercian Family," political base.

I hate Rick Santorum and the fuckers who support him.
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Posted by mike at April 26, 2003 06:33 PM