Nov 02 2005
Bye-bye Ricky
Group Holds Santorum ‘Retirement Parties’ HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) - A national political group for gays is staging mock “retirement parties” for Sen. Rick Santorum as part of a campaign to defeat the high-ranking Republican next year.
The Washington-based National Stonewall Democrats and its local chapters have signed up hosts for about 40 parties in more than a dozen states, including six in Santorum’s home state of Pennsylvania. Most of the parties are scheduled for Nov. 13.
Organizers say their main goal is to energize rank-and-file activists for next year’s campaigns and the 2008 presidential election.
Santorum, who as GOP conference chairman is the Senate’s third-ranking Republican, helped lead last year’s unsuccessful push in Congress for a constitutional ban on gay marriage.
In a 2003 interview with The Associated Press, he angered gay-rights groups by saying states should have the right to ban gay sex and by comparing homosexuality to bigamy, incest and adultery.
Santorum campaign spokeswoman Virginia Davis said the senator believes marriage should be “between one man and one woman” and that “special rights should not be granted based on sexual orientation.”
News flash for Ricky and his spokeswoman Ms. Davis: special rights already are granted based on sexual orientation. If your sexual orientation happens to be heterosexual, you have all kinds of special rights.
When are these bigots going to learn that there is a huge difference between special rights and equal rights?
