Op-ed: Mrs. Santorum, Can We Talk?

[xchrom]

http://www.advocate.com/Politics/Commentary/An_Open_Letter_to_Karen_Santorum/

Someone’s been using the extra bit of cash he got from his surge in Iowa to buy some spin doctor advice. Earlier this week, Rick Santorum, his wife, Karen, and their oldest daughter, Elizabeth, were all talking about how much Rick “loves gay people” and that his opposition to our right to marry is a “policy difference.” Karen then added to the obscenity of this utter claptrap by suggesting that gay activists were being “backyard bullies” in our attacks on her husband and his policies.

Karen, we need to talk. And by that, I mean that I need to talk and you need to listen.

You love your husband — I get that. You love your faith — fine by me. But when you pretend that hate is love, that lies are truth, and that victims are oppressors, you have become inane.

Your husband believes that LGBT people cannot be trusted to serve in the military, raise children, form stable relationships or be fully respected under the law. According to you, Rick may love us, but honey, his love is killing us, and we want nothing to do with this abusive relationship. Our community has endured expulsion from family, mass firings, daily epitaphs, assaults, harassment, humiliation, death, and suicides. We know that if your husband becomes president of our country our long suffering will only deepen and magnify.

[William769]

1. I posted this in GD also.

Very good op-ed.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002185750

[xchrom]

2. i must have thing -- that if you post a thing -- i over look that

you posted it.

kind of an unaware OCD thingy.

i'll call it 'i don't see william769' syndrome. not very catchy -- i think i'll be the only one with this disease.

[barbtries]

3. well put.

i don't believe it's possible for me to be more tired of republican hypocrisy than i am today.

[Zenlitened]

4. Powerful. - nt