We already know that Pennsylvania Senator and #3 man in the Republican Leadership Rick “Man-on-Dog” Santorum thinks that priests raping teenage altar boys is a “basic homosexual relationship”, but just when you think his anti-gay rhetoric can’t go any lower, he always surprises you.
Now Santorum is oozing his latest filth — the idea that the pedophilia scandals that have rocked the Catholic Church were an understandable by-product of the liberal tolerance of alternative sexuality in places like Boston. From the Boston Globe:
WASHINGTON — Senator Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania, the third-ranking Republican in the Senate, refused yesterday to back off on his earlier statements connecting Boston’s “liberalism” with the Roman Catholic Church pedophile scandal, saying that the city’s “sexual license” and “sexual freedom” nurtured an environment where sexual abuse would occur.
“The basic liberal attitude in that area . . . has an impact on people’s behavior,” Santorum said in an interview yesterday at the Capitol.
“If you have a world view that I’m describing [about Boston] . . . that affirms alternative views of sexuality, that can lead to a lot of people taking it the wrong way,” Santorum said.
Santorum, a leader among Christian conservatives, was responding to questions about remarks he made three years ago on a website called Catholic Online. In those comments, Santorum said, “It is no surprise that Boston, a seat of academic, political, and cultural liberalism in America, lies at the center of the storm” of the clergy sexual abuse scandal.
“I was just saying that there’s an attitude that is very open to sexual freedom that is more predominant” in Boston, Santorum said yesterday. Reminded that the sexual abuse occurred across the country, Santorum said that “at the time [in 2002], there was an indication that there was more of a problem there” in Boston.
Thank goodness that there are good, God-fearing Republicans in Red State America who are free from the corrupting influence of decadent liberalism. Who knows how much worse these guys might have turned out had they lived in Boston?
