Tuesday, April 22, 2003

Dems Call for Santorum to Quit Leadership (Washington Post April 22, 2003)
The Senate Democrats' political organization on Tuesday called for Republican Sen. Rick Santorum to resign his leadership position after the lawmaker compared homosexuality to bigamy, polygamy, incest and adultery.

One day after gay-rights groups urged GOP senators to consider removing Santorum from his leadership post, the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee said the two-term Pennsylvania senator should step down as chairman of the Senate Republican Conference, the No. 3 job in the party leadership.

"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.

The DSCC called Santorum's remarks "divisive, hurtful and reckless" and said they "are completely out of bounds for someone who is supposed to be a leader in the United States Senate."

When the hue and cry ends, Santorum brings up an interesting legal question. All of the things he mentions are lifestyle choices, but some are more controversial than others. What's the rationale for making some of the things he mentions legal and others illegal? Are we better off or worse off living under a government that legislates lifestyle choices? Please leave comments on this one.

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