Prudes in Boston fool everyone and promote child sex abuse--News from the Santorum Gazette
Enough with the red state, blue state nonsense. There is no geographic boundary when it comes to the big move to the right in this country. Think about it. First, Minnesota elected an openly sexist megalomaniacal professional wrestler as governor. Then California elected a sex offender as its governor. And my subject today is a product of Pennsylvania, the state that elected Rick Santorum to the U.S. Senate.
Santorum, by any reasonable means of measurement, is a nutcake. This is the man who brought his 20-week-old dead fetus home from the hospital so that his very young children could see it and spend time with it. Naming the fetus and having an ongoing memorial to him is something many people would do, I think, but taking home a dead fetus--or infant--to a one-and-a-half-, four- and six-year-old is quite ill-advised at best, and would be considered child abuse by many.
It was Santorum who compared homosexuality with incest, and bestiality, and it was Santorum who threatened the Schiavo case judges with some kind of Congressional ass-kicking because they followed the law and not the sudden frenzied whim of Congress.
To be fair, Santorum is the only politician I can think of who isn't totally hypocritical in his Culture of Life undertakings. He is a Congressional leader in advocating animal welfare, and I don't mind saying I am grateful to him for that.
Santorum, however, like many of his ilk, confuses any type of organicity with life (though I doubt he is a vegetarian, so there are probably lapses in his dogma), and uses his confusion to stir up the fires of the religious right.
He is also confused about consensual sex, and his recent attack on the city of Boston is so outrageous, it makes one wonder if he has become unhinged. Santorum blamed Boston's liberalism for that city's Catholic Church child sex abuse. It has nothing to do with sick priests, you see, but with all those liberals who think it is hunky-dory for men to have sex with little boys and girls.
When it was pointed out to Santorum that priests had molested and raped children throughout the country, and in large numbers, his response was that, at the time he made the remark, there appeared to be more abuse in Boston.
I wonder what Santorum has to say about the goings-on in right-wing Ponchatoula, Louisiana. Or about Boston's divorce rate, which is the lowest in the nation. Or the fact that Bostonians have traditionally been known for being prudish.
But then, when you're a right-wing politician with a Bible in your holster, logic and reason are the last things you need to make you successful.
Santorum, by any reasonable means of measurement, is a nutcake. This is the man who brought his 20-week-old dead fetus home from the hospital so that his very young children could see it and spend time with it. Naming the fetus and having an ongoing memorial to him is something many people would do, I think, but taking home a dead fetus--or infant--to a one-and-a-half-, four- and six-year-old is quite ill-advised at best, and would be considered child abuse by many.
It was Santorum who compared homosexuality with incest, and bestiality, and it was Santorum who threatened the Schiavo case judges with some kind of Congressional ass-kicking because they followed the law and not the sudden frenzied whim of Congress.
To be fair, Santorum is the only politician I can think of who isn't totally hypocritical in his Culture of Life undertakings. He is a Congressional leader in advocating animal welfare, and I don't mind saying I am grateful to him for that.
Santorum, however, like many of his ilk, confuses any type of organicity with life (though I doubt he is a vegetarian, so there are probably lapses in his dogma), and uses his confusion to stir up the fires of the religious right.
He is also confused about consensual sex, and his recent attack on the city of Boston is so outrageous, it makes one wonder if he has become unhinged. Santorum blamed Boston's liberalism for that city's Catholic Church child sex abuse. It has nothing to do with sick priests, you see, but with all those liberals who think it is hunky-dory for men to have sex with little boys and girls.
When it was pointed out to Santorum that priests had molested and raped children throughout the country, and in large numbers, his response was that, at the time he made the remark, there appeared to be more abuse in Boston.
I wonder what Santorum has to say about the goings-on in right-wing Ponchatoula, Louisiana. Or about Boston's divorce rate, which is the lowest in the nation. Or the fact that Bostonians have traditionally been known for being prudish.
But then, when you're a right-wing politician with a Bible in your holster, logic and reason are the last things you need to make you successful.
posted by Diane at 11:41 AM
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