Do the Santorum
It feels like a million years ago that Senator Rick Santorum (R-Pennsylvania) told a reporter that he hoped the United States Supreme Court would uphold anti-gay sodomy laws and compared consensual gay sex to incest, bigamy, adultery, and “man-on-dog” sex. There was a mini uproar, of course, with gay groups calling for Santorum’s head and anti-gay groups defending Santorum. For his part, George W. Bush called Santorum “an inclusive man”–and for once Bush was right. Santorum is inclusive: Straight people don’t have a right to privacy either, according to the equal-opportunity killjoy. He doesn’t even think straight people have a right to use contraception.
Alas, the Santorum scandal didn’t have legs. In fact, most of us–myself included–had already moved on when a Savage Love reader wrote in to say that he didn’t want to see the Santorum scandal fade into political oblivion. SARS (Sex and Rick...