"Would Santorum be condemned if it were discovered that one of his staff members was living with someone without being married? That is just as much a sin as homosexuality."
Okay. We have to be able to separate our own "personalized, idealized utopias," and find a way to navigate the real world. People living together without being married a sin? Of course it is, among very conservative Christians (and orthodox Jews, and conservative Muslims!), but to most people in the US, it's...so what? (Forget that they've been sold--and have fully bought--the idea that you should "try it out" before you buy, wrong as that is); to stomp and moan about that sort of thing like Jerry Falwell without a muzzle is to....
Put Hillary in the Whitehouse.
It paints as unyielding, intolterant, judgemental extremists (by the way, I have no problem, personally, with the first three of those four, but that's just me).
No one is demeaning your beliefs. No one thinks their beliefs are superior than yours, per se. But the Republican Party is a coalition every bit as much as the Dem Party is. To set up insurmountable standards is to fracture it....
and put Hillary in the Whitehouse.
Just curious? If you knew a young couple living together, in sin, (note that I did not put that in quotes, as I'm taking you, and the issue, seriously ((and it's a heterosexual couple, to be sure)), would you simply launch your condemnation, or would you try to persuade them that they should change their ways?
The question is key, because to shriek and finger-point and scream "Sinners"! is to alienate people and drive them far from your position. But to approach them in a humane, civil, sincere manner MAY result in your changing hearts and minds for the better.
I think you missed my point. My point is that people are calling Santorum a hypocrite because he thinks homosexuality is a sin, he is against public endorsement of it, yet he employs a homosexual. My point is that everyone Santorum employs is guilty of some sin or another. So is Santorum himself. So should he hire no one and hide himself?
I'm not sure what you are saying to me, but I am not going around shrieking at people and calling them sinners. I am calling for the exact opposite. I think people are wrongfully calling Santorum a hypocrite.