Kennedy raps Santorum for sex abuse remarks

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Lambastes senator for ’02 column linking Boston liberalism, church scandal

WASHINGTON - In a rare personal attack on the Senate floor, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy accused Sen. Rick Santorum on Wednesday of being self-righteous and insensitive for a column he wrote three years ago linking Boston’s liberalism to the sex abuse scandal in its Catholic diocese.

Santorum, R-Pa., wrote in the July 2002 column for Catholic Online that promoting alternative lifestyles feeds such aberrant behavior as priests molesting children.

“Priests, like all of us, are affected by culture,” Santorum wrote. “When the culture is sick, every element in it becomes infected. While it is no excuse for this scandal, it is no surprise that Boston, a seat of academic, political and cultural liberalism in America, lies at the center of the storm.”

Romney defends
Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, a Republican who — like Santorum — has been mentioned as a possible presidential candidate in 2008, called the remarks unfortunate but did not ask for an apology, said spokesman Eric Fehrnstrom.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8567264/

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1. Our "liberal" media

Notice how our 'liberal' press corps described Kennedy, as someone who made a "rare personal attack" and someone who "accused" Sen. Santroum of blah blah blah

[Iris]

2. My, God. They just want to cover everything up with more ignorance.

This is about as ignorant as you can get.

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3. kick

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4. I don't know who - but someone pointed out that it was Boston who

led the way in the fight on pedophilia & the church. It happened that way in Canada too. Isolated outposts of brutality got named by one group and it allowed for other pockets of brutality to come to the surface too.

And really money is the very least that can be done for kids who had their childhood's robbed from them. The fact is that many abuse victims don't make it in the end.

Nice of Santorum to ignore all that - the real story and the real victims and make the Catholic believer's the victim in his narrative.

Like the joke says: it is always a Democrat's fault in the end for any amount of "uncomfyness" Americans feel. Ignore the real victims and use the 'issue' for further political gain - no matter how that will affect the true victims.

What a scapegoater Santorum is.