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| Quote : | "In the interview, when asked for his position on the Roman Catholic Church sex abuse scandal, Santorum said that the scandal involved priests and "post-pubescent men" in "a basic homosexual relationship" (not child sexual abuse), which led the interviewer to ask if homosexuality should be outlawed.
Santorum then brought up the then-pending U.S. Supreme Court case Lawrence v. Texas, which challenged a Texas sodomy law, and went on to declare that:
he didn't have a problem with homosexuals, but "a problem with homosexual acts"
the right to privacy "doesn't exist in my opinion in the United States Constitution"
and that sodomy laws properly exist to prevent acts which "undermine the basic tenets of our society and the family"
When asked "Okay, without being too gory or graphic, so if somebody is homosexual, you would argue that they should not have sex?" his response concluded: "In every society, the definition of marriage has not ever to my knowledge included homosexuality. That's not to pick on homosexuality. It's not, you know, man on child, man on dog, or whatever the case may be."
(At this point, the interviewer commented, "I'm sorry, I didn't think I was going to talk about 'man on dog' with a United States senator, it's sort of freaking me out," coining a phrase widely used in connection with this incident.)
In the original version of the AP story, Santorum was quoted as saying:
"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."
His initial statement in the unedited interview (see below) did not include the insert "[gay]". It also included additional remarks criticizing "homosexual acts":
"Whether it's polygamy, whether it's adultery, whether it's sodomy, all of those things, are antithetical to a healthy, stable, traditional family."" |
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santorum_controversy
[bye] 11/8/2006 12:17:26 AM
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