Mending Morality
Where do we stand? What comes next?
July 22, 2005, 8:31 a.m.
EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the fifth in a series of
five excerpts from It
Takes a Family, by Sen. Rick Santorum. Together they comprise chapter
23, “The Rule of Judges.”
Now that we know where it started, where are we now?
You may recall my comments, widely reported in the press, about the Lawrence
v. Texas case, in which the petitioner was seeking to strike down the
Texas sodomy statute as unconstitutional. Before that decision, I made the
comment to a reporter that this decision had the potential to further expand the
right to “privacy” with devastating consequences. This is how she reported
this often-repeated quote of mine:
And if the Supreme Court says that you have the right to consensual (gay) 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.
July 22, 2005, 8:31 a.m.
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