[Andy]

Like you, I?d hate to have "The Office of Bedroom Police" but as has been pointed out, Santorum was basically repeating a Supreme Court decision that has been the law of the land for years.

Vt. has legalized gay marriage and their high court has oked it. However they still have a law that prohibits ?unnatural acts?, that would include sodomy. Also the VT. high court does not trump the Federal supreme Court.

None of that is a big issue and that?s not what I wanted to talk about. You said that Santorum?s comment were bad (in part) because it was in contradiction to our founding fathers views of equality. (Sorry that?s just a paraphrase but I think that?s the point you were making.) Lets not talk about slaves, lets stick to the issue of sex. Yes Jefferson had a long term relationship with his sister-in-law and slave Sally, but that was not unusual in the South, at that point in history. Do you think that Adams or Madison would have been elected president if it was discovered that they had engaged in homosexual acts? Do you think Washington could have been elected if it was know that he was openly gay?

In the late 1700s there were VERY few political leaders anywhere in the US who were not Christian and in those days the church took a very dim view on homosexuality. During those years all 13 states re-wrote their law codes. ALL states made, re-made, laws that specifically made homosexuality a very serious felony, in some cases punished by death. I can?t believe that our founding fathers actually for saw a land where Gay Pride marches would take place in most major cities of the country each year.

Times have changed and we are a more tolerant nation. There is a lesbian couple who lives next door to me and they are great neighbors. However the idea that Santorum would have been bad mouthed by our founding fathers seems like quite a stretch.
If the people who signed the Constitution could come back to life for a day and saw how Santorum is getting beat up by the press over his comments, I'd guess they would comment, "What the hell are you people thinking?"

Stay healthy,
Andy