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.'

[lugsoul]

Yep, and he was clearly talking about a law banning homosexual sodomy - the Texas law before the SCOTUS. To try to claim that the comments were not about that subject is so entirely disingenuous as to be unworthy of debate. Whether Rush said it or not.

[BibChr]

Ask him whether Sen. Byrd thinks Santorum's a "gay-bashing nigger."

Dan

[shawv]

You are an absolute ________ (fill in the blank). This senator has the guts to state what the majority of Americans say. He is just being the representative he should be! Sodomy and beastiality are on the same par as homosexuality. We need MORE like him

[MEG33]

And you,sir ,are hyperventilating.

[eaglebeak]

I've read it all I care to, thanks. If you get off on it, fine. This man needs to be removed. As Dean said, this is *not* the stuff of U.S. public policy. And that's an understatement. He was being polite.

[mabelkitty]

LMAO!

Your faux hand-wringing is hilarious.

[JohnnyZ]

TROLL

[lugsoul]

Mablekitty, I don't think your comments have very much validity as long as you refuse to defend your inane positions on this topic. Like your contention that heterosexual sodomy is okay - as opposed to homosexual sodomy being illegal and immoral - because people don't talk about it. And your contention that the real problem with homosexual sodomy, and the reason it should be illegal, it because homosexuals talk about it. You don't want to outlaw sodomy. You want to outlaw speech you find offensive.

BTW - wasn't Santorum talking about it? (ooohhh, and bestiality, too!)

[m1911]

So you signed up May 11, 2000 but haven't had anything to say until the April Fool's day this year?

[MEG33]

He was discussing the law,which you find indelicate.

[Dante3]

I want Hillary to resign. She offends me deeply.

[dirtboy]

What kind of parochial schoolboy gets off on talking about sodomy and bestiality in interviews?

What kind of court gets off on hearing cases about sodomy? Oh, that's right, the Supreme Court of the United States. It wasn't like Santorum pulled this topic off the top of his head, it is VERY much in the news right now. And I find your going from thread to thread ranting that he should not be removed to be indicative of an agenda that you're not sharing with us...

[ez]

I guess the Democrats now have a religious test for Senate posts, too?

[dirtboy]

As Dean said, this is *not* the stuff of U.S. public policy.

Yeah, but Dean sure made it the busines of his state - and is now commenting on it as a PRESIDENTIAL candidate. I guess you are too enraged to see the contradictions there.

[chachacha]

I don't believe in the PROTECTED class and therefore would not have caved to the liberal PC crowd over what Trent Lott said. Don't get me wrong I'm for equal rights for ALL. This lunacy has to stop especially from the so called RIGHT!

[Revolting cat!]

Santorum is in REAL BIG TROUBLE, I tell, ya! He'll never get any votes in San Francisco in his Senate re-election campaign!

[dirtboy]

So you signed up May 11, 2000 but haven't had anything to say until the April Fool's day this year?

He's had sporadict posts through this year and in 2002. I don't think he's a troll. I just don't think he's telling us why he is so adamant about this subject.

[ewing]

Ah yes, the esteemed civil rights worker Grand Kleagle Byrd of West Virigina..

[dirtboy]

As Dean said, this is *not* the stuff of U.S. public policy.

That line gets funnier and funnier the more I think about it. You are quoting one of the two most liberal Dem presidential candidates in the field to make a point on a conservative forum. And you are quoting his opinion that this is not the stuff of U.S. public policy - when he is for nationalized health care, something I fail to see mentioned in the Constitution either.

Are you sure you're really a conservative?

[kevao]

I just don't think he's telling us why he is so adamant about this subject.

Maybe he's....?