2004 Presidential Candidate Calls for Santorum to Resign Senate Post

Guardian Unlimited UK ^ | April 23, 2003 | wire report

[ewing]

Democratic Presidential candidate Howard Dean on Wednesday for Senator Rick Santorum to resign his leadership post after the lawmaker compared homosexuality to bigamy, polygamy, incest and adultery.

'Gay bashing is not a legitimate public policy discussion, it is immoral.

Rick Santorum's failure to recognize that attacking people because of who they are is morally wrong makes him unfit for a leadership position in the United States Senate.'

[eaglebeak]

Dean is right and has the guts to say so. What kind of parochial schoolboy gets off on talking about sodomy and bestiality in interviews? He calls himself a U.S. Senator? Santorum should be removed. NOW.

[JimVT]

Howard Dean, the first-class Clymer who gave Vermont civil unions is too stupid to be President.

He not only antagonized a whole lot of heterosexuals with the civil union fiasco...now...he pisses off another whole bunch of people who know that Santorum is simply restating U.S. law.

BTW...a good number of homosexuals who got unioned in VT and now want to get de-unioned are finding out it is not as easy as they thought.

See below:

Civil unions in Vt. easier to enter than exit

By Sarah Schweitzer, Boston Globe Staff from the Web, November 15, 2002

For the 4,203 gay and lesbian couples who have flocked to Vermont from Massachusetts and elsewhere around the country to join in civil unions in the first state to honor them, a legal knot is turning some happy-ever-afters into permanent binds.

A little-noticed provision in the ground-breaking law that created civil unions more than two years ago requires that one member of a couple reside in Vermont for a year before the state will grant a dissolution. And dissolving unions outside Vermont is complicated by the fact that no other state has legally recognized the concept, leaving courts to wrestle with the question of whether something that isn't recognized can be ended.

One Connecticut court has decided the answer is no. A judge there threw out the case of a Connecticut man who sought to dissolve his civil union, reasoning that because the state does not acknowledge civil unions, its courts had no say over their breakup. The case is awaiting appeal at the state's Supreme Court.

The Connecticut case is the only known instance of an attempted dissolution outside Vermont; there have been 10 dissolutions in Vermont.

Legal specialists say the Connecticut case is likely to be the beginning of a spate of litigation over the dissolution of civil unions, and, more broadly, the status of the unions outside their home state. To date, specialists say, no court has defined what rights, privileges, or obligations attach to civil unions outside Vermont - although courts have weighed in with thoughts on what doesn't. A Georgia court ruled that a civil union is not the equivalent of a marriage.

[Blood of Tyrants]

Dis is the same governor who signed the homosexual marriage law. He has literally bent over for the homos.

[chit*chat]

RUSH discussed this today. Santorum's statement did NOT include the word 'gay'. That word was injected by the AP,and passed off as being in the original statement.

Enter the typical democratic machine who squawk in unison until the target gives in to shut up the gaggle.

[amused]

Dean is going to go the way of Dukakis with his appeals to the far left of the Dem base for primary votes.

[MEG33]

You are kidding ,of course,you rascal!

[aruanan]

Democratic Presidential candidate Howard Dean on Wednesday for Senator Rick Santorum to resign his leadership post after the lawmaker compared homosexuality to bigamy, polygamy, incest and adultery.

Does Howie know that it was the news service that inserted the word "gay" into Santorum's remarks? Does Howie care?

[AMNZ]

Jerk I was refering to was Dean. 10-1 he didn't call for Bubba to resign for a hell of a lot more than Rick has done.

[SunStar]

[grania]

Dean is right and has the guts to say so. What kind of parochial schoolboy gets off on talking about sodomy and bestiality in interviews? He calls himself a U.S. Senator? Santorum should be removed. NOW.

Are you serious? It's up to his constituency to decide if he stays in office, next election.

[eaglebeak]

I wish I were and that this had not happened. But I don't care what political stripe one wears. This makes me physically ill.

[mabelkitty]

NEWSFLASH:

"Ex-Governer Dean injures back jumping at latest Left-Wing bandwagon"

[lilylangtree]

No way! Santorum's got to stay put. Rick, don't cave in.

[mabelkitty]

Nope.

John Kerry connection.

Can't have that exposed on network news.

[mabelkitty]

Nope.

John Kerry connection.

Can't have that exposed on network news.

[ricpic]

"I mean can't people speak there minds any more?"


NO!

Next...........

[mabelkitty]

Please re-read the interview.

[trebb]

I was listening to Rush and he says that Santorum was misquoted (by a reporter who is involved with Kerry's campaign) and that Santorum never mentioned the word "gay" or "homosexual" during the quote. His gist was that if the Supreme Court was to legalize "consensual sex" and stand behind the privacy issue, then all kinds of immoral/illegal activities would become protected. How about NAMBLA freaks having "consensual" sex with 11 year old boys...

[eaglebeak]

He has embarrassed his constituency and the senate of these United States. He is a schoolboy and a disgrace.

[mabelkitty]

I still don't see the Trent Lott/Rick Santorum connection.

Blacks are a protected class. We threw him out.

Homosexuals are not. We won't throw Rick out.