# Why Is 'Santorum' Dirty?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-santorum-dirty/618453>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [April 11, 2012, 10:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-santorum-dirty/618453 "2012-04-11T10:17:22Z")\
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**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\
**Post date:** [April 14, 2012, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-santorum-dirty/618453/61 "2012-04-14T18:34:10Z")

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> [@Bricker](#):
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> Untrue as to Fr. Hill.
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> Inasmuch as this is GQ and all. Fr. Hill was never arrested, much less convicted, and so far as I know never even accused of such a thing.
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> I welcome a cite to the contrary…

As would I. Wiki has nothing about Fr. Hill doing anything untoward with choir boys, and Google also came up blank.

> **[Morton A. Hill](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morton_A._Hill)**
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> Father Morton A. Hill, S.J. (1917-1985) was a leader of the campaign against pornography in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s. He was one of the founders of Morality in Media, which was created in 1962 to fight pornography. President Lyndon B. Johnson appointed him to the President's Commission on Obscenity and Pornography.
> Believing that the Commission was stacked with supporters of loosening laws on pornography, Hill and another clergyman on the Commission, Dr. Winfrey C. Link, issued the Hill-Link M...

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**Author:** ![isaiahrobinson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/85e7bf/32.png) [@isaiahrobinson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/isaiahrobinson)\
**Post date:** [April 14, 2012, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-santorum-dirty/618453/62 "2012-04-14T19:00:31Z")

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> [@An\_Gadai](#):
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> It’s also usually better than actually bombing people.

But not as good as thinking of something actually funny, as opposed to childish and meaningless.

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