McCarthyite Attempt to Infringe Republican Senator's Free Speech Rights

That's how the Hollywood left — Tim Robbins and his ilk — would frame the feigned outrage of sexual-perversion activists against Sen. Rick Santorum, if it were directed against them:

.... In an interview with The Associated Press, Santorum criticized homosexuality while discussing a pending Supreme Court case over a Texas sodomy law.

"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 said in the interview, published Monday.

Santorum spokeswoman Erica Clayton Wright said Monday that the lawmaker's comments were "were specific to the Supreme Court case." The senator's office had no immediate comment Tuesday to the DSCC's call for him to give up his leadership job.

Santorum's point is indisputable: if "privacy" provides constitutional protection for a sexual perversion, then it does so for any and all sexual practices.

P.S. See this press release from Family Research Council. (Thanks, Jennifer).

P.P.S. Dust in the Light helpfully points us to the context of Santorum's remarks:

.... We have laws in states, like the one at the Supreme Court right now, that has sodomy laws and they were there for a purpose. Because, again, I would argue, they undermine the basic tenets of our society and the family. And if the Supreme Court says that you have the right to consensual 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. Does that undermine the fabric of our society? I would argue yes, it does. It all comes from, I would argue, this right to privacy that doesn't exist in my opinion in the United States Constitution, this right that was created, it was created in Griswold -- Griswold was the contraceptive case -- and abortion. And now we're just extending it out. And the further you extend it out, the more you -- this freedom actually intervenes and affects the family. You say, well, it's my individual freedom. Yes, but it destroys the basic unit of our society because it condones behavior that's antithetical to strong, healthy families. Whether it's polygamy, whether it's adultery, where it's sodomy, all of those things, are antithetical to a healthy, stable, traditional family....

P.P.P.S. Don't miss this WND article. (Thanks, Chris.)

Lane Core Jr. CIW P — Wed. 04/23/03 08:00:17 AM
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