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Perhaps the tech-savvy at-risk youth in The Stranger's IT dept. could add a filter to Movable Type that automagically converts "Santorum" to a link to the site?
That doesn't mean that anyone I don't like won't be murdered and thrown in an incinerator. But I will make sure their ashes go into a nice looking urn.
Posting about Rick is therapy for Danny.
It will have to do until he can WHIP UP SOME SANTORUM IN SANTORUM (do you see what Danny did there?...)
I'm not 100% certain (or even 25% certain, for that matter) how search engine optimization works, but it would be cool if whenever anyone enters Official Rick Santorum Website in their favorite search engine, they get the santorum website as a top hit.
"Santorum, who has cultivated an image as a clean-cut social conservative trumpeting family values, nominated Sandusky for a “Congressional Angels in Adoption Award,” after Sandusky had already been accused of at least five cases of child molestation."
http://www.infowars.com/media-ignores-sa…
"Last week, President Obama’s Justice Department filed a legal brief against same sex marriage in which it compared gay unions to incestuous ones and that of an underage girl – in the sense that states have the right to not recognize marriages that are legal in other states or countries.
The timing of the brief, which the president of the leading gay and lesbian rights organization said caused his community “pain,” is awkward, given that next Thursday, June 25, the Democratic National Committee is hitting up the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community for cash in a fundraiser featuring Vice President Biden.
As John Aravosis at AmericaBlog reports, gay donors, outraged at the legal brief, are withdrawing their support from the event.
The treasurer of the DNC, Andrew Tobias, finds himself distancing himself from the brief, as Ben Smith of Politico reports.
"If this debacle of a brief represented the president's views, I'd boycott too," Tobias said in an e-mail. But Tobias insisted that he “personally totally believe(s) in the president.”
David Mixner, a former adviser to President Clinton, is not so sold, writing that the brief is a “sickening document” that “could have been written by the Rev. Pat Robertson. Using the worst of stereotypes, it intimates that we don't have constitutional guarantees, invokes scenarios of incest, of children and advocates that we don't have the same rights as others who have struggled for civil rights.”
Mixner says many scholars don’t think the Obama administration needed to defend the Defense of Marriage Act, which states that states don’t have to accept same sex marriages from other states. Some disagree. But “to a person, they say that the response is way out of line, totally unnecessary and goes far beyond anything required. They all agree that if the Department of Justice felt they had to respond, a simple, few-paged brief on the very limited issue before the Federal Court would have been all that was necessary.”
The brief, Mixner argues, “undercuts every conceivable argument that the LGBT community would use to fight for the repeal of DOMA. Right-wing nut cases can now just simply quote horrible stuff from this hateful brief and proclaim loudly it was filed by the Obama Justice Department.”
For that reason, Mixner withdrew his support from the DNC fundraiser.
As did big Democratic gay donors Andy Towle and Alan Van Capelle, executive director of the Empire State Pride Agenda and Foundation.
Aravosis is mad, criticizing "this rather ill-timed and inappropriate Democratic effort to milk money from our community at the same time Democrats are equating us with incest and not lifting a finger on any of our legislation priorities in Congress or the White House. It's not awfully clear why any gay person would give a Democrat a dime ever again.”
"...heterosexual intercourse is now responsible for 70-80% of all HIV transmissions worldwide." – Nancy Padian, PhD http://www.aidstruth.org/denialism/misus…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homosexuali…
As Lewis Black put it, "Why is it so important that the sex a priest ISN'T having, be with a woman?"
And for those who are chiding Dan for running so many Santorum posts since Sanny's almost victory in Iowa: You underestimate your enemy at your own perile. How many of us thought there was NO WAY Bush II would be elected (and yes, I agree he wasn't actually elected but selected by the SCOTUS), and how many of us thought there was NO WAY he could get re-elected in 2004. Until Santorum hangs his head in defeat, we need to keep on him. It's too dangerous, considering his insane view on life, religion, it's role in government, and his philosophy of governing.
Now, if the press would only do their fucking job and actually ask the candidates the hard questions and not accepting those lame answers without further questioning. The press used to give us the truth about what was going on out there. Now they just tell us everybody else's opinion, even if there is an actualy truth out there. It is sad to see.
And for all of you Obama bashers out there: Has he done the best job? No, but he has been trying to be a president for everybody, not just the lefties who elected him, and his attempts to work with Republicans, to include them in his policy plans, were met with total and complete obstruction, which has made it difficult for him to get any bills passed. He has been trying to heal this country after the distasterous Bush years, and according to expert economists, considering the damage W and his friends did to our economy, we shouldn't expect to fully recover for at least 5-10 years. YEARS! As a society, our need for instant gratification is affecting our overall ability to look at things in the long-term and vote accordingly.
And as for gay rights, Obama may not be the ideal, but he did repeal DADT, and even with the DOJ DOMA problem, Obama is still light years better than any of the Repub candidates on gay rights.
And finally, as Dan keeps reminding us straight people, the likes of Santorum are not just going after those "gays". No, he is coming for all of our sexual/reproductive freedoms, including contraception and the right to have sex however you like (as long as it's between consenting adults). In a Santorum world, nobody has any right to privacy, regardless of your sexual orientation. So, if your heterosexual man enjoys being pegged by you, a heterosexual woman, you better hope that the Santorum police won't burst in while you are pegging the shit out of him and arrest you both for sodomy. This is the world Santorum (and probably most of the Republican candidates, exept for Ron Paul) thinks is "best for society." Freaking terrifying.
Keep up the good fight, Dan!
In this country more than 60% of all AIDS occurs among the 2% of the population that is gay.....
gawd you're ugly....
I disagree with the person who said you spent a lot of time covering someone who probably isn't going to win the nom. In terms of politics, Santorum is young. If he's this close to the presidency now, you can bet he won't be going away anytime soon. People need to remember that this guy's opinions are extremely dangerous. Santorum should not be allowed to act like the rocks he has continually thrown at civil rights issues were actually harmless balloons.
But then, which one was it? Gingrich whose daughter is gay?
Thank you for consistently linking Rick Santorum's name to The Official Rick Santorum website. Clearly the public needs to know all about Rick Santorum, and all of his antiquated and philistine positions. Rick Santorum has a tough road ahead, especially when more Americans come to learn what Rick Santorum really stands for.
@27--I don't think one of Gingrich's kids is gay, but his sister Candace is. And Dick Cheney has a lesbian daughter; not coincidentally, he supports gay marriage, at least at the state level.
http://motherjones.com/mojo/2012/01/sant…
This needs to be illustrated more to the general public. Our fearless (ahem) press corps lets people like Santorum get away with their "I would love my son," "respect" pablum, and no one draws attention to how these wingers are speaking on the subject to one another.
But then, the only journalists who called out Santorum on his outrageous "blah people" lie are bloggers or on Comedy Central, so fat chance.
Go with me here - if he's sincere about his prejudices against gay people, and sincerely wants to make them second class citizens in the eye of the law, then his response to the gay son question should be consistent with that - he should say something like he'd be full of sorrow that his son was a sinner, that he'd cut off all contact with him, that he'd drive him out of their home - righteously!
If he's sincere that he'd love his son the same and try to be a good father to him - then he's either saying "OK for me but not for thee" to the rest of the population, or - frankly - the whole anti-gay thing is feigned political theatre intended to enthrall the very worst and bigoted elements of our society.
If he really has some kind of deeply rooted anti-gay sentiment, yet when contemplating a gay son he knows it wouldn't change his love - then he HAS to reconsider his prejudices. Unless he's a politically expedient liar.
he's despicable.