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T t MAY 10 . 2003 • Q-NOTES "Homosexuality, man on dog, man on child" in same Santorum, hardly senatorial, sentence Initial publicized remarks by Sen. Richard Santorum’s pale in comparison to other things he said. While many organizations have condemned the US Senator’s remarks, comparing homo sexuality to polyga my and bigotry, the entire text of that same Associated Press interview re- Sen. Rick Santorum veals a far more lethal mindset. The full text contradicts the Senator’s spokesperson who claimed Santorum was only referring to the Texas sodomy case now before the US Supreme Court. But Santorum believes any sexual relationship outside het erosexual marriage, not resulting in children, is wrong and needs to be regulated. Thanks to the National Gay Lesbian Task Force for supplying it to us, here is the third highest-ranking Republican Senate leader in all of his very own words. The infamous Santorum interview An unedited section of the Associated Press inter view, taped April 7, with Sen. Rick Santorum (R-PA). Words that couldn’t be heard clearly on the tape are marked "(unintelligible)." AP: if you’re saying that liberalism is taking power away from the families, how is conser vatism giving more power to the families? Santorum: Putting more money in their pocket- book is one. The more money you take away from families is the less power that family has. And that’s a basic power. The average American family in the 1950s paid (unintelligible) percent in federal taxes. An average American family now pays about 25 percent. The argument is, yes, we need to help other people. But one of the things we tried to do with welfare, and we’re trying to do with other programs is, we’re setting levels of expectation and responsibility, which the left never wanted to do. They don’t want to judge. They say. Oh, you can’t judge people. They should be able to do what they want to do. Well, not if you’re taking my money and giving it to them. But it’s this whole idea of moral equivalen cy. (unintelligible) My feeling is, well, if it’s my money, I have a right to judge. AP: Speaking of liberalism, there was a story in The Washington Post about six months ago, they’d pulled something off the Web, some article that you wrote blaming, according to The Washington Post, blaming in part the Catholic Church scandal on liberalism. Can you explain that? Santorum: You have the problem within the church. Again, it goes back to this moral rela tivism, which is very accepting of a variety of dif ferent 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 oyvn 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 SI / } INTERNATIONALLY-AMERICAN CUISINE -««r. ! ANTIC fc^INNER FOk $59.50 PER COUPLE INCLUDING BOTTLE OF WINE 0 ^ I I 1820 SOUTH BLVD. CHARLOTTE, NC 7O4.332.8i49 '~**~’***^ i i FORMOREINFORMATIONCUCKONWWW.PEWTEROSE.COM i 2718 Monroe Rd. Charlotte, NC282(B:|i ^ 704-374-1232 101-A Old StatesviOc Rd. ^ Himtemille, NC 28078 J 70#46-3939||ii Emaili lupie^hiptescafeAroni www.lupiescafe.com Come Visit Your Friends at GOOD OL’ DAYS The Arboretum 3351 Pineville/Wlatthews Rd. 704.543.4100 be surprised what you get. You’re going to get a lot of things that you’re sending signals that as long as you do it privately and cohscnsually, we don’t really care what you do. And that leads to a culture that is not one that is nurturing and necessarily healthy. I would make the argument in areas where you have that as an accepted lifestyle, don’t be surprised that you get more of it. AP: The right to privacy lifestyle? Santorum: The right to privacy lifestyle. AP: What’s the alternative? Santorum: 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 per fectly fine relationship as long as it’s consen sual between people. If you view the world that way, and you say that’s fine, you would assume that you would see more of it. AP: Well, what would you do? Santorum: What would I do with what? AP: I mean, how would you remedy? What’s the alternative? Santorum: First off, I don’t believe... AP:l mean, should we outlaw homosexuality? Santorum: I have no problem with homosexual ity. 1 have a problem with homosexual acts. As I would with acts of other, what I would consider to be, acts outside of traditional heterosexual relationships. And that includes a variety of dif ferent acts, not just homosexual. 1 have nothing, absolutely nothing against anyone who’s homosexual. If that’s their orientation, then I accept that. And I have no problem with some one who has other orientations. The question is, do you act upon those orientations? So it’s not the person, it’s the person’s actions. And you have to separate the person from their actions. AP: OK, without being too gory or graphic, so if somebody is homosexual, you would argue that they should not have sex? Santorum: 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. Docs 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 contra ceptive case — and abortion. And now we’re just extending it out. And the further you extend it out, the more you — this freedom actually inter venes and affects the family. You say, well, it’s my see SANTORUM on 22 At Work Q-Notes P.O. Box 22IS41 * Charlotte, NC 28222 Phone: 7(M.5i1.9988 Fax: 704.551.1341 pubiisher'M)q''note!s.co{ti li
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