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Friends, I am reprinting here verbatim recent comments made by United States Senator Rick Santorum Republican from Pennsylvania to AP Reporter Laura Jakes Jordan so that you can see what kinds of idiots we have in Congress and also with the hope that you will please write Mr. Santorum a letter and ask him to resign from the senate immediately and apologize publicly to the millions of homosexuals who live, work, and vote in this country. I am also providing his phone number so that if you can't write you can call his office and complain about these outrageous bigoted remarks. Remarks like these can not be uttered by elected public servants without repercussions. I want to know what kind of world we live in where elected officials can get away with making such scurrilous comments. Mr. Santorum said: "We have laws in states, like the one at the Supreme Court right now, that have sodomy laws and they were there for a purpose. Because, again, I would argue, they [homosexuals] undermine the basic tenets of our society and the family. And if the Supreme Court says that you have the right to consensual sex within your home, then you have the right to polygamy, you have the right to incest, you have the right to adultery. You have the right to anything. Does that undermine the fabric of our society? I would argue yes, it does. It all comes from, I would argue, this right to privacy that doesn't exist in my opinion in the United States Constitution" "In every society, the definition of marriage has not ever to my knowledge included homosexuality. That's not to pick on homosexualilty. 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--- And that's sort of where we are in today's world, unfortunately. The idea is that the state doesn't have rights to limit individuals' wants and passions. I disagree with that. I think we absolutely have rights because there are consequences to letting people live out whatever wants or passions they desire. And we're seeing it in our society."
Senator Rick Santorum |