18th May 2003, 9:53 AM
How is it racism? Since when did gays become a new race?
He's right too, and has been catching heat because his remarks were blown out of proportion. The act in question describes a consensual sex law, which states, to some effect, that all consensual sex should be legal, and the law was drafted with homosexuality in mind. So if this law made homosexuality legal, it would also make bigamy, incest and polygamy, statutory rape, and practically any sort of now-illegal consensual sex legal as well. What Santorum said mirrors what Justice Byron White stated in a 1986 Supreme Court ruling that dealt with homosexuality.
He's right too, and has been catching heat because his remarks were blown out of proportion. The act in question describes a consensual sex law, which states, to some effect, that all consensual sex should be legal, and the law was drafted with homosexuality in mind. So if this law made homosexuality legal, it would also make bigamy, incest and polygamy, statutory rape, and practically any sort of now-illegal consensual sex legal as well. What Santorum said mirrors what Justice Byron White stated in a 1986 Supreme Court ruling that dealt with homosexuality.
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