Is anybody paying attention?

[windelina]

Senator Rick Santorum made the following statement to the press (about an upcoming Supreme Court hearing):

"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. All of those things are antithetical to a healthy, stable, traditional family. And that's sort of where we are in today's world, unfortunately. It all comes from, I would argue, this right to privacy that doesn't exist, in my opinion, in the United States Constitution."

Now, some papers have reported that Gay Rights Groups are upset and are trying to get an apology, or resignation from the Senator.

But I think all Americans need to stand up and speak out against this loon who believes that "this right to privacy...doesn't exist".

There's a good opinion piece about it at Salon.com. That piece also notes that the law in question is a Texas sodomy law passed the same year that the law against bestiality was repealed.

Texas. We should have let them secede from the Union.

Comments

[envoy.livejournal.com]

There's a couple of books, by, I believe Daniel da Cruz, the first one I think is called the Ayes of Texas. It's libertarian fan bait not dissimilar from the stuff that Eric Flint or Leo Frankowski (although Leo isn't quite so gun happy.) cranks out. It's about a whole bunch of very very noble gun weilding texans (georgans/some engineer) succeeding from the union (getting hurled backwards in time/um... getting hurled backwards in time) , and then bravley holding off the rest of the US Navy (medieval europe/ the huns) and proving that all one needs to succeed in life is a noble spirit, a willingness to treat women as objects, and great big honking technologial advantage.

[birdfigment.livejournal.com]

I thought he was from TN?

I think you can send e-mail about this from http://www.hrc.org, or maybe from http://www.actforchange.com

[windelina.livejournal.com]

The senator is from TN. The law is in TX, where it's okay to fuck your dog, but not your gay partner.
Texas - home of G.W. Bush as well.
If it weren't for Harry Knowles, I'd say take off and nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.

[jenx.livejournal.com]

Okay, who's up for coralling all the cool people and migrating off-planet?

[hedgiewan.livejournal.com]

Hey, now. Calm down, hotshot. Texas is not *that* bad. I had a girlfriend from TX, once. And don't forget the Johnson space center!

[petsnakereggie.livejournal.com]

The senator is making the mistake of most conservative politicians whose objection is moral rather than one based on any proper interpretation of the constitution.

Equating consensual sodomy with incest is completely improper and he knows this. Consensual sex is a victimless crime. Everyone is OK with what they are doing so there is no victim. There is unquestionably a victim in most cases of incest.

As for the question of polygamy and bigamy, both are also consensual. Adultery is certainly immoral and grounds for a dissolution of a marriage but not something the state has any business regulating.

These are all seperate issues that this guy grouped together so he could make the qestion of legal gay sex scarier for those people who, by and large, probably don't give a rat's ass what two guys are doing in the privacy of their own home. It is easy to forget that the majority of the electorate is neither Liberal or Conservative. They are indifferent.

But yeah, I heard about him. I can only hope the supreme court rules against the state of Texas and shoves his statement right down his ass.

Which would, of course, be legal.