Senatorial
Speech
Waterbury
Republican-American, April 27, 2003
P. O. Box 2090, Waterbury, CT 06720
Fax: 203-596-9277
Editorial
Where does the First Amendment say you cannot make
negative remarks about homosexuality?
To many Americans, homosexual acts are deviant and
repulsive. But many do not dare express such sentiments publicly without being
prepared to run for cover. Homosexual activists and their left-wing allies
stage a blitz that includes indignation, intimidation and disparagement meant
to subdue the offending speaker into silence and perhaps suffer a loss of
position.
It’s phenomenal. When Americans express disagreement
with the Iraqi war protesters, they are accused of practicing censorship and
stifling free speech. But when homosexuals mount their campaigns against
Americans who speak out against their demands and activities, no cries of
censorship or stifling of free speech are heard.
This display of knee-jerk left-wing hypocrisy is
tiresome.
When U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania,
third-ranking Republican in the Senate, made his comments about homosexuality
in an interview with an Associated Press reporter, little was said about his
right to free speech. Instead, headlines placed him “under fire” from
homosexual groups that wanted him displaced from his leadership position.
Homosexuals may not like it, but Americans have every
right to declare their opposition to what they perceive as unnatural sexual
acts without being attacked as homophobic and worse.
Whether the senator’s side of the story was given a
fair shake in the media is questionable, since the AP reporter, Lara Jakes
Jordan, is the wife of a campaign official for Massachusetts Sen. John
Kerry’s run for the Democratic presidential nomination. She indicated her
bias when she objected to a comment by Sen. Santorum, saying, it’s
“freaking me out.”
The senator says he will neither apologize nor step down
from his leadership position; he has no reason to. At one point in the
interview, he made his views on homosexuality quite clear: “I have no
problem with homosexuality. I have a problem with homosexual acts.”
Homosexual activists are outraged over his comments that
seem to link their activities with bigamy, polygamy, incest and adultery. If
the U.S. Supreme Court throws out a Texas law banning sodomy, the senator
contended, this would expand “consensual sex” to mean “the right to
anything.”
Actually, Roe vs. Wade took government out of the bedroom
a long time ago, and the Texas law may be an anachronism. But this in no way
requires the senator to accept sodomy, or any other practices considered
unnatural, as normal sexual behavior.
In essence, the position toward homosexuality Sen.
Santorum took is one embraced by a large number of people, including Pope John
Paul II. The senator accepts the homosexual but condemns homosexual practices.
The pope has preached the same position. Should his resignation be demanded?
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