Quite simply, Senator Rick Santorum needs to go.
Santorum on homosexuality, as quoted in the Times Leader:
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.
Santorum on abuse in the clergy, as quoted in the San Francisco Gate:
You have the problem within the church. Again, it goes back to this moral relativism, which is very accepting of a variety of different lifestyles. And if you make the case that if you can do whatever you want to do, as long as it’s in the privacy of your own home, this “right to privacy,” then why be surprised that people are doing things that are deviant within their own home? If you say, there is no deviant as long as it’s private, as long as it’s consensual, then don’t be surprised what you get. […] In this case, what we’re talking about, basically, is priests who were having sexual relations with post-pubescent men. We’re not talking about priests with 3-year-olds, or 5-year-olds. We’re talking about a basic homosexual relationship. Which, again, according to the world view sense is a a perfectly fine relationship as long as it’s consensual between people.
Santorum on same-sex marriages, from a fundraising letter:
…this may truly be the most important letter I ever write you. […] I am writing to…implore you to support the work Matt is doing through Alliance for Marriage…to draft an Amendment to the U.S. Constitution to protect the holy sacrament of marriage from those who would legalize same-sex “marriage”. […] If we don’t protect marriage, we risk the Supreme Court deciding the fate of marriage like they decided the fate of our unborn children in Roe V. Wade.
Lots of good commentary from Daily Kos (here, here and here) and Atrios (here, here, here and here).
