Republican Pennsylvania Sen. Rick "Man on Dog" Santorum, who always struck me as a self-loathing closet case, incredibly stupidly asserted today that preventing same-sex marriage is essential to "homeland security." The supposedly straight Santorum has a strange obsession with homosexuality. (Reuters photo)
Fags and dykes: The new Jews
Every fascist regime needs an enemy.
The Bush regime has made Muslims The Foreign Enemy and gay men and lesbians The Domestic Enemy.
The Enemy, you see, is Everywhere.
Republican Sen. Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania -- who in an April 2003 Associated Press interview said that he's OK with people being homosexual, as long as they never actually have sex with members of the same sex, and equated homosexuality with polygamy and incest-- actually said this today shortly before the U.S. Senate voted, 50-48*, against advancing a misguided measure to amend the U.S. Constitution to ban same-sex marriage:
"I would argue that the future of our country hangs in the balance because the future of marriage hangs in the balance. Isn't that the ultimate homeland security, standing up and defending marriage?"
For its desire to oppress people based upon its backasswards, patriarchal religious beliefs, I think we can start calling the Bush regime the American Taliban.
*The Associated Press reports that "45 Republicans and three Democrats voted to advance the measure, while 43 Democrats, six Republicans and one independent voted to scuttle it." Sixty votes would have been required for the measure to go forward. Reuters notes that "For a proposed constitutional amendment to become law, it must be approved by two-thirds of the House and Senate and then ratified by 38 of the 50 states" and that "the House is also expected to fall far short of the needed votes when it takes up the measure, likely in September."
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