Rick Santorum quote on gay rights

[11811]

I did a quick Google search for this, with no results. KYW News Radio quoted Santorum as equating the sexual rights of gay persons in their homes with, IIRC, sodomy and a host of other things. Did anyone here catch the remark and can you provide a link?

[LateComer]

Here you go. (http://www.post-gazette.com/nation/20030421apsantorump1.asp)

[LateComer]

"If the Supreme Court says that you have the right to consensual [gay] sex within your home, then you have the right to bigamy, you have the right to polygamy, you have the right to incest, you have the right to adultery. You have the right to anything," Santorum said in the interview, published yesterday.

[mnemosyne]

Its really disturbing that people actually think like that, let alone say it out loud. And this is a Senator, someone who is supposedly representing the opinions of a large group of voters (not that I think he IS representing their opinions, necessarily, but if he says it, then there are people around the world who think it as well).

Sick.

[Bricker]

I hate to say this... but there is something in what the honorable gentleman from Pennsylvania is saying.

If the Supreme Court "says that you have the right to consensual [gay] sex within your home," this means they find a constitutional right to the practice. We have discussed at great length elsewhere the merits of "discovering" such constitutional rights out of whole cloth. It's unclear to me, for example, how we might constitutionally prohibit consensual incest between adults if there is a constitutionally-protected right to sodomy.

On what basis could a law against adultery survive?

- Rick

[Bricker]

Er... I didn't notice this was GQ until after I submitted my post.

Clearly, LateComer answered the GQ. Apologies for my GD-ish post.

[Early Out]

Originally posted by Bricker
On what basis could a law against adultery survive?
Harm to a non-consenting party, I would assume.

[manhattan]

Yep. This one's asked and answered.