Equal
Protection
Denver
Post, May 5, 2003
1560 Broadway, Denver, CO 80202
Fax: 303-820-1369
Email: Letters@denverpost.com
Letters
Re: “Pa. senator defended; Frist: Santorum not a
homophobe,” April 24 news story.
I urge the editorial board of The Denver Post to quickly
condemn the warped, hate-filled speech of Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum and
to support his removal from the Senate Republican leadership.
In a rambling interview with The Associated Press, Sen.
Santorum likened homosexual acts to incest, bigamy and adultery. Santorum
spoke in support of a Texas law banning homosexual sodomy that is currently
under review by the U.S. Supreme Court.
According to Sen. Santorum, “If the Supreme Court says
that you have the right to consensual (gay) sex within your home, then you
have the right to bigamy, you have the right to polygamy, you have the right
to incest, you have the right to adultery. You have the right to anything.”
What we have the right to is equal protection of the law.
In the United States, heterosexual adults aren’t jailed for engaging in
private, consensual sexual activity (even if it is adulterous—although some
states, like Georgia, actually outlaw heterosexual sodomy). Neither should we
be.
While President Bush has refused to comment on
Santorum’s remarks, he is quick to extol the blessings of democracy to
undemocratic nations around the world. He instead must clean up the
undemocratic mess in his own house. The president, Santorum and congressional
Republicans must be told that in the United States, our government has no
place in the bedrooms of its citizens. Some of our elected leaders apparently
don’t know that freedom and equality begin at home.
—Art Thompson, Executive Director, Gay, Lesbian,
Bisexual and Transgender Community Center of Colorado
Fine Distinctions
Dear Sen. Santorum: I love murderers but I hate their
acts. I love Republicans and I simply abhor their acts. I hate female
strippers—and I really adore their acts.
—Irving Bennett, Englewood
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