Santorum Strikes Back

Rick "man on dog sex" Santorum reiterated comments he made several years ago about the Catholic Church child abuse scandal in an article in the Boston Globe:

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.

Another stupid comment made by the Senator:

''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.

I guess he's forgetting that the sexual abuse occurred decades ago and the leaders of Catholic Church, not the laypeople, are the ones responsible for rotating these sick individuals around to other parishs with unsuspecting families.

He forgets that Boston is the first place where all these crimes were made public by the media and not silenced like the church wanted.

He must not know that child sexual abuse by the Catholic Church wasn't only in Boston (from the Boston Globe):

The scandal began brewing in Boston, but it was not isolated here. As public furor grew, other dioceses began confronting abusive clergy in their ranks. By the end of 2002, some 1,200 priests had been accused of abuse nationwide, according to a study by The New York Times. Over the course of the year, five US prelates resigned in connection with sex scandals, including Boston's Cardinal Law -- joining four others who had resigned in previous years. The crisis was also felt worldwide, with accusations of abuse or the mishandling of scandals forcing the resignation of bishops in Argentina, Germany, Ireland, Poland, Wales, Scotland, Canada, Switzerland, and Austria.

I guess he also forgets that Massachusetts has the lowest divorced rate of any state in the country and those states in the "Bible Belt" have the highest.

The 10 Southern states with some of the highest divorce rates were Alabama, Arkansas, Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, and Texas.

I think Rep. Barney Frank, in the Globe article, said it best when he talked about Santorum's involvement with the Terri Schiavo case:

''This is one of those people who claims to have had eye contact with a blind woman,"

I suggest you contact the Governor of Massachusetts and express your concern for this supposed Christian senator attacking the citizens of Massachusetts.