Sen.
Santorum Slammed
Erie
Times News, April 27, 2003
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Letters
Like many Pennsylvanians and U.S. citizens, I am outraged
by Senator Rick Santorum’s recent unprovoked and vicious attack on GLBT
citizens. In commenting on an upcoming U.S. Supreme Court decision, the
third-highest-ranking U.S. Senator compared being gay to incest, bigamy and
adultery. Getting himself into “Lott” water, he is trying to back away and
state that he didn’t mean to denigrate gay people. I firmly believe that
there are politicians who are fair-minded and genuinely believe in justice.
But when I hear Trent Lott praising someone who ran on a pro-segregationist
platform, or Santorum slamming me and my community or Rick Schenker
threatening the Human Relations Commission under whatever cover story he
thinks people will fall for, I find myself more than a bit dismayed and
skeptical.
However, I am even more incensed by his quote, “All of
those things are antithetical to a healthy, stable, traditional family. And
that’s sort of where we are in today’s world, unfortunately. It all comes
from, I would argue, this right to privacy that doesn’t exist, in my
opinion, in the United States Constitution.” So, apparently Santorum thinks
that gay people and families are to blame for problems that straight families
have. (So much for personal responsibility—no need to take charge of your
own life when there are hated enemies to blame.) And even more alarming, he
believes that the U.S. Constitution does not include the right to privacy for
the most private and intimate aspects of people’s lives. Hasn’t the
Republican Party presented itself as the party of smaller government? How much
more invasive can government possibly get?
Santorum needs to apologize and step down.
—Michael Kenton Mahler, Erie
Gay News, Erie
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