From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 6 10:23:45 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 750A537B401 for ; Tue, 6 May 2003 10:23:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rwcrmhc52.attbi.com (rwcrmhc52.attbi.com [216.148.227.88]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E606143F85 for ; Tue, 6 May 2003 10:23:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from DougB@freebsd.org) Received: from master.dougb.net (12-234-22-23.client.attbi.com[12.234.22.23]) by attbi.com (rwcrmhc52) with SMTP id <2003050617234205200qicj1e>; Tue, 6 May 2003 17:23:42 +0000 Date: Tue, 6 May 2003 10:23:42 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug Barton To: Larry Sica In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20030506101600.D4420@znfgre.qbhto.arg> References: Organization: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-message-flag: Outlook -- Not just for spreading viruses anymore! MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Senator Santorum X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 06 May 2003 17:23:45 -0000 On Tue, 6 May 2003, Larry Sica wrote: > The US still has some issues in regards to things like this. Recently > a high ranking republican made some comments that could be construed as > very anti-gay (I think they were) and has made them in the past. The > gist was he equated homosexuality with incest, polygamy and bestiality > iirc. That is certainly how it's being REPORTED, but that's not actually what he said: "And 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." You can find more context here: http://www.ncsfreedom.org/news/bigotedsen.htm The annoying thing about what he said from the standpoint of the gay rights folks is that he's right. It really is a slippery legal slope. (Note, I didn't say that it's a bad thing, I just said he's right.) So, in order to discredit his arguably justifiable concern, the gay rights folks are trying to paint him as a bigot and a homophobe (whatever that is supposed to mean). Doug -- This .signature sanitized for your protection