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posted by [personal profile] orichalcum at 11:00am on 13/07/2005
Rick Santorum, Senator from Pennsylvania, has upped the ante in his criticism of Boston. No longer just blaming Harvard and MIT for the Catholic pedophilia scandals, it turns out that the problem is...
"alternative sexual freedom."

From the Boston Globe today,

"Senator Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania, the third-ranking Republican in the Senate, refused yesterday to back off on his earlier statements connecting Boston's ''liberalism" with the Roman Catholic Church pedophile scandal, saying that the city's ''sexual license" and ''sexual freedom" nurtured an environment where sexual abuse would occur.

''The basic liberal attitude in that area . . . has an impact on people's behavior," Santorum said in an interview yesterday at the Capitol.

''If you have a world view that I'm describing [about Boston] . . . that affirms alternative views of sexuality, that can lead to a lot of people taking it the wrong way," Santorum said.'

I'm not sure you can _get_ more offensive than claiming that gay or poly lifestyles lead to child abuse. I'm not sure I want to know, if you can. Please, Pennsylvania folk, vote this guy back into the, oh, I don't know, early 19th century or something. Preferably in Russia. In winter.
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posted by [identity profile] woodwindy.livejournal.com at 03:21pm on 13/07/2005
Please, Pennsylvania folk, vote this guy back into the, oh, I don't know, early 19th century or something.

Yeah, some of us have been trying for a while now...

I take some small comfort in knowing that when you Google "Santorum," this website is the first hit. (kind of not safe for work!)
 
posted by [identity profile] digitalemur.livejournal.com at 03:27pm on 13/07/2005
Well, the definition and that site were started because of Santorum repeatedly saying stuff exactly like this. I thought it was a crazy idea at the time, but y'know, when Dan Savage gets his readers riled up, things like this can happen, and I don't really mind even though it's rather juvenile.

Hmm. I'm going to go read this week's Savage Love now. I mean cuz if any town is the new Sodom, it's TOTALLY Seattle.
 
posted by [identity profile] digitalemur.livejournal.com at 04:37pm on 13/07/2005
Oh yeah, and Savage Love is generally not safe for work, usually for words, sometimes for amusing drawings depending on where you get it.
 
posted by [identity profile] stolen-tea.livejournal.com at 03:51pm on 13/07/2005
Assuaging my annoyance through a moment of juvenalia...

He said "taking it the wrong way". *snicker*
 
posted by [identity profile] orichalcum.livejournal.com at 06:19pm on 13/07/2005
I think mockery really is the appropriate response. Have you seen the quotes from his autobiography? Barefoot, pregnant, and in the kitchen is clearly where people like me should be...
 
posted by [identity profile] jab2.livejournal.com at 06:34pm on 13/07/2005
tangentially...
ya know, i still think the best quality of my last ex-bf was that, despite his macho Latinness in many arenas, he also admitted using exactly the above phrasing that he was perfectly willing to be barefoot and in the kitchen as long as he had a wife and kids to cook and care for...
 
posted by [identity profile] jab2.livejournal.com at 06:32pm on 13/07/2005
er, given that those cases of abuse went back to the 1980s, and 'alternative sexuality' only got affirmed in what, 2003, that's just the TEENSIEST bit anachronistic, no???

as someone resident in PA when Santorum was elected, my apologies on behalf of that state. philly and pittsburg can swing some of the votes to the left, some of the time, but the rest of the state is *beyond conservative* and admittedly deserve some representation.

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