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Thursday April 24, 2003
HOMOSEXUAL ACTIVISTS FRUSTRATED IN ATTEMPT TO ATTACK SANTORUM
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WASHINGTON, April 24, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) Powerful homosexual activists groups have been frustrated in their attempts to malign U.S. Senator Rick Santorum over his statements regarding the Supreme Court case on the Texas sodomy law.
The Associated Press reported Santorum saying, "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."
Family Research Council President Ken Connor said "The Human Rights Campaign's attack on Sen. Santorum, a champion of the family, is intended to intimidate defenders of marriage and silence critics of the homosexual political agenda." He explained, "If the justices overturn the Texas law and hold sodomy to be a constitutional right on the grounds of privacy, then laws against bigamy, incest, polygamy, adultery and other purely 'private' sexual relationships must also be unconstitutional. This is hardly a novel point of view. Many legal scholars have made the same argument."
Connor noted, "The law has historically respected and protected the marital union and has distinguished it from acts outside that union, such as fornication, adultery and sodomy. To extend homosexual sodomy the same protections given to the marital union would undermine the definition of marriage and could lead to homosexual marriage."
The Log Cabin Republicans (LCR) were blasted for attempting to suggest Santorum's comments were similar to racist comments. Concerned Women for America (CWA) President Sandy Rios said, "The fact that LCR and other gay groups are linking their smear campaign to the black civil rights cause is an added insult to African American Republicans and all black Americans. There are no ex-blacks, but there are thousands and thousands of ex-gays."
Also, the Catholic League said it would not tolerate the attack on Christian principles. Catholic League president William Donohue said, "Rick Santorum expresses the Christian understanding of marriage and for this gay activists want the Republican leadership to condemn his remarks. Senator Santorum's defense of marriage is in keeping with his Roman Catholic convictions. We earnestly defend his right to do so."
See the FRC, CWA and Catholic League releases:
http://www.frc.org/get/p03d03.cfm
http://www.cwfa.org/articledisplay.asp?id=3789&department=MEDIA&categoryid=famil...
http://www.catholicleague.org/03press_releases/pr0103.htm
http://www.frc.org/?i=WU03D25
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