Up to now I’ve been out of the loop on this whole Santorum thing. At first, I was like, what, yet another conservative flunky spouting anti-gay rhetoric? What else is new? But this guy is way up in the Republican leadership. I just now read his comments, given in an April 7 interview. Very troubling. (Give it a read. Even the reporter kind of freaks out.) Andrew Sullivan takes on the larger privacy implications in Salon. More discussion at MetaFilter. One of the more insightful comments there, vis-à-vis the Constitution: “[T]he fundamental unit of society is not the ‘family’ (whatever that may mean), but free individuals.”
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The slippery slope? Please.
Up to now I’ve been out of the loop on this whole Santorum thing. At first, I was like, what, yet another conservative flunky spouting anti-gay rhetoric? What else is new? But this guy is way up in the Republican leadership. I just now read his comments, given in an April 7 interview. Very troubling. […]
2 replies on “The slippery slope? Please.”
What kills me is that he’s now trying to play it off like he was just quoting the previous court case’s verdict, when he clearly was speaking not in that context nor was his comment’s relation to that case even implied! I would not think it proper to demand a resignation were we not just getting past the Lott debacle, but I certainly think that if Lott’s indirect, possibly racist comments forced him to resign, this is more than worthy of one.
Since I know you generally agree, I’ll refrain from discoursing. No use beating a dead horse…
Right. Unfortunately, this whole thing will probably be seen as consequential to only the gay community—when in fact his legal and moral vision has wider implications, which worries me—so there may be less pressure for him to step down.