Monday, April 28, 2003

This headline is wasted on that article.

Sunday, April 27, 2003

I don't get the big deal people are making about the remarks of Sen. Santorum. I think a lot of people saw the ease with which Trent Lott was taken down and are now thirsty for more blood. But most of the criticisms I have seen are outright distortions. Take, for example, the charge that Santorum equated homosexuality with bigamy and incest. He did no such thing. What he said was, if the Court rules that anti-sodomy laws cannot be enforced on the grounds that they are acts by consenting adults, then anti-bigamy or anti-incest laws cannot be enforced for the same reason. Is this not true? I draw a different conclusion than Santorum. Rather than enforce all of them, I believe none should be crimes. Except bestiality, but only on the grounds that it's animal cruelty.

Plus, I'm not a big fan of those who dismiss 2000 years of Church teaching because it's not politically correct. And they do it arrogantly. As many of these same people said about the war, when you've got the Pope opposed to you, it's time to do some serious thinking.