GUESS THIS MEANS NO CAMEO IN PHILADELPHIA 2

While I was on Easter assignment, Rick Santorum completed quite the trifecta for himself:

1) pine for sexual big-brotherism
2) blame the victims of sexual abuse by priests, and
3) refuse to apologize for it

This is pretty, uh, clear:

"If the Supreme Court says that you have the right to consensual 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.

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"The idea is that the state doesn't have rights to limit individuals' wants and passions. I disagree with that. I think we absolutely have rights because there are consequences to letting people live out whatever wants or passions they desire."

Squelching intolerance among Republicans seems like a game of whack-a-mole to me sometimes.

Much of the news coverage has been aimed at the anti-gay connotations of Santorum's comments. He doesn't come right out and single out the homosexual community, but in my judgement, that's a lot of the implication here. (he has a history of such ideas)

Show of hands: How many people think that the Republicans, by virtue of bumping Trent Lott down to Chairman of the Senate Rules Committee, have effectively cleaned out their intolerance closet?