I don't feel strongly about Santorum either way. This incident does not move me, either, probably because I can't believe there is any other way to handle it.
I voted for him twice and will vote for him again because he votes for what I believe by and large. I don't expect to agree with any politician all the time, I guess.
I do think that all the sins I outlined are equal. Someone who has sex outside of marriage is no worse or better than someone who harbors hate or who abuses their body with food or alcohol. I can't understand why the sexual sins seem to rile folks up more.
Maybe because ACT UP pelts churchgoers with condoms, and there is much more e-mail spam concering porn than there is pate de foie gras.
Also because (outside of the comic strip Garfield--or, by implication, Oprah Winfrey) there is no such thing as a "right to be fat" PAC.
Or (outside of say certain past and present US Senators) there is no "drunkard constituency".
As far as defending hate, it was the ACLU (libs) who defended the right of a Nazi group to march in a predominantly Jewish suburb of Chicago; it is still Sen. Byrd (Democrat! West Virginia) who held a high post in the KKK, has used the "N-word" publically, and is still in good standing as a senior statesman within his party; and it was the Southern DEMOCRATS in the 60s who stood in the way of the civil rights legislation (e.g. Al Gore's dad when he was a senator).
Full Disclosure: The saying goes, "A mind is like a parachute--it only works when open." But that is an incomplete analogy: A parachute is not open all the time, it is not supposed to be. It is only open when you are "up in the air" (undecided). Once you are planted firmly on the ground, leaving the parachute open will result in the parachute getting ruined, and becoming useless for its intended purpose.
Cheers!
If you don't see why sexual sins are more serious than over eating, I can't help you with that one.