Wednesday, November 08, 2006
So Long, Farewell, Auf Wiedersehen, Goodbye...
Hey, look at this article from just over a year ago:
And so we bid a fond, fond, Boston farewell to former Senator and rightwing nutbag Rick Santorum.
So long, you obnoxious, pr&^%$.
- Santorum resolute on Boston rebuke
Insists liberalism set stage for abuse
By Susan Milligan, Globe Staff | July 13, 2005
WASHINGTON -- Senator Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania, the third-ranking Republican in the Senate, refused yesterday to back off on his earlier statements connecting Boston's "liberalism" with the Roman Catholic Church pedophile scandal, saying that the city's "sexual license" and "sexual freedom" nurtured an environment where sexual abuse would occur.
"The basic liberal attitude in that area...has an impact on people's behavior," Santorum said in an interview yesterday at the Capitol.
"If you have a world view that I'm describing [about Boston]...that affirms alternative views of sexuality, that can lead to a lot of people taking it the wrong way," Santorum said.
Santorum, a leader among Christian conservatives, was responding to questions about remarks he made three years ago on a website called Catholic Online. In those comments, Santorum said, "It is no surprise that Boston, a seat of academic, political, and cultural liberalism in America, lies at the center of the storm" of the clergy sexual abuse scandal.
"I was just saying that there's an attitude that is very open to sexual freedom that is more predominant" in Boston, Santorum said yesterday. Reminded that the sexual abuse occurred across the country, Santorum said that "at the time [in 2002], there was an indication that there was more of a problem there" in Boston.
Santorum has startled Washington in the past. In a 2003 interview with the Associated Press, he linked "man on child" and "man on dog" sex with homosexuality, describing them as deviant behaviors that threatened traditional marriage. Earlier this year, he apologized for comparing the Democrats blocking President Bush's judicial nominees to the Nazi leader, Adolf Hitler.
The Pennsylvania senator recently penned a book, "It Takes a Family," that blasts two-income families, divorce, cohabitation before marriage, and other social trends he considers liberal ills.
The book, set to be released later this month, blames "radical feminism" for encouraging women to work outside the home. "In far too many families with young children, both parents are working, when, if they really took an honest look at the budget, they might confess that both of them don't really need to or at least may not need to work as much as they do," Santorum wrote.
Jay Reiff, Casey's campaign manager, predicted that Santorum's outspokenness might get him into trouble with Pennsylvania voters.
"It's sort of being out of touch," Reiff said. "For hundreds of thousands of families, the option of having a stay-at-home mother is not there from an economic standpoint. "It's not because they are bad budgeters or are selfish."
- PENNSYLVANIA
9,258 of 9,372 precincts -- 99%
Bob Casey (Dem) 2,309,459 59%
Rick Santorum (GOP) (i) 1,625,875 41%
And so we bid a fond, fond, Boston farewell to former Senator and rightwing nutbag Rick Santorum.
So long, you obnoxious, pr&^%$.
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Santorum isn't so much a conservative as he is a conservative idiot. "Radical feminism" caused the cost of living to rise to the point where one income is insufficient? Uh-huh. You can surmise you are listening to an idiot when social and economic equality among the sexes is referred to as "radical". Correction, you can surmise you are listening to a Christian and I make no apology for my antipathy toward Christians. Santorum's idiocy as well as his Christianity is on full display throughout his obsession with other people's sexuality. Boston is to blame for pedophile priests? Is Boston also to blame for Bernard Law and the deliberate cover-up of the activity of homosexual predators throughout the diocese? BTW, isn't the church and its acolytes typically conservative or did the "liberalism" of Boston suddenly infect one of the most conservative institutions in the world? A Christian he is and a conservative he is but what Santorum is above all else is a fucking stooge.
Buh-bye, douchebag! Keep up the good work!
Buh-bye, douchebag! Keep up the good work!
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10:28 AM, November 08, 2006
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10:28 AM, November 08, 2006
Exactly. Sactimonious Santorum had it backwards.
Pedophilia and other sex offenses thrive in conservative, not liberal, societies -- because their secrecy depends on shame and fear of authority. The Church sex scandals continued for decades because people were afraid or ashamed to speak out. Boston used to be a very conservative place.
Along comes liberalism, and the unthinking fear of authority goes away. People become enlightened, and willing to stand up to corrupt authority figures.
It was liberalism that exposed the Church sex scandals.
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Pedophilia and other sex offenses thrive in conservative, not liberal, societies -- because their secrecy depends on shame and fear of authority. The Church sex scandals continued for decades because people were afraid or ashamed to speak out. Boston used to be a very conservative place.
Along comes liberalism, and the unthinking fear of authority goes away. People become enlightened, and willing to stand up to corrupt authority figures.
It was liberalism that exposed the Church sex scandals.
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