Santorum’s
View of Sodomy Case
Los
Angeles Times, April 26, 2003
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Re “Santorum Defends Remarks on Gays,” April 23: In
one little interview, Republican Sen. Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania suggested
that the federal government has the right to pry into the bedrooms of all
Americans, equated gay and lesbian sex with bestiality and said that
priests’ sexual abuse of teenagers actually constituted consensual
homosexual activity rather than an act of statutory rape. In trying to show
his compassionate side he also said, “I have no problem with homosexuals. I
have a problem with homosexual acts.”
To that, I say I have no problem with Neanderthals. I
have a problem with Neanderthal speech.
- Larry Buhl, West Hollywood
Well, Sen. Santorum, you have really put your foot in
your mouth this time. But don’t take it out just yet. Don’t retract those
nasty little statements of yours. Let the nation have some more time to
realize how the new Republican leaders really think. I wonder if all of the
gay Republicans heading for Washington to attend the Log Cabin Club 2003
convention are going to finally wake up and smell the—well, it isn’t
coffee—in time to re-register before 2004.
- Alan Toy, Los Angeles
I think that the voters of this country are quite capable of deciding whom
they wish to throw out of office and for what reason. The politically
motivated knee-jerk reaction of extreme groups that wish to forward their
narrow agendas is not the form of protest that I wish to represent me.
Santorum made a statement regarding a specific legal
matter. If a state cannot regulate a particular private act, then it cannot
regulate any private act. That is not a comparison of the acts, only of the
legal consequence.
If only those in the homosexual community and those who
are fighting on their behalf would understand that in this case it is truly in
their best interest to lose the battle in order to win the war. Overturning
[the Texas sodomy law] under an ambiguous privacy clause may win the battle,
but it could be the victims of incest and other vile acts who are the losers.
Protesting the illegality of private acts between consenting adults and
letting those in a particular state vote on such matters is winning the war.
- Lorraine Kihm, Alta Loma
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