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News National Politics LIES, HALF-TRUTHS, AND MORE LIES. GENE ROBINSON IS AT IT AGAIN
News National Politics LIES, HALF-TRUTHS, AND MORE LIES. GENE ROBINSON IS AT IT AGAIN
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09 January 2012
In his recent diatribe against GOP hopeful and former Senator Rick Santorum, “Pulitzer Prizewinning journalist” Gene Robinson is at it again. Lambasting earlier leading candidates, Gene Robinson has now set his rhetorical sites on Rick. Since Gene is open with his far-Left ideology, I don’t fault him for the inevitable criticism of conservative candidates. That’s part of our marketplace of ideas, and most readers understand his Liberal bias. However, when Gene fabrication “facts” through mistruths or distortions, it’s time someone called him on it. In the case of Rick Santorum, I’m calling him on it.
According to Gene Robinson, Senator Santorum “is a culture warrior who has equated same-sex marriage with polygamy, pedophilia, and bestiality.” Absolutely false assertion, yet repeated by many of the Left to become truth to many. The 2003 Lawrence v. Texas Supreme Court decision undermined earlier Supreme Court precedence and arguably established a Constitutional protection of any kind of consensual sex act. In Lawrence, the issue was local legislation preventing homosexual sexual acts. However, in its opinion, the Court not only undermined state and local sovereignty with a new Constitutional right, but went beyond homosexual sex to all consensual sex.
Rick Santorum, a law school graduate who practiced law before election to Congress, discussed the potential ramifications of the Lawrence opinion. Rick wanted Americans to understand the opinion went beyond homosexual sex to possibly include polygamous sex, bestiality and pedophilia. He did not even speak about gay marriage, but gay sex. He did not equate the types of sex, and impliedly spoke of bestiality and pedophilia as much more egregious than homosexual sex. Unfortunately, the nuances of the argument go above the heads of our “elite” journalists, and they take the simplistic but untruthful approach. Helps sell papers, right? Unfortunately, the perpetuation of this lies continues to gather steam.
In using a “half-truth” to mislead the readers, Gene claimed Senator Santorum “opposes birth control”. Though that statement carries 1% truth (as I’ll explain), the clear impression is one of Rick Santorum desiring to outlaw contraception in America. More of the hysterics to sell newspapers and lambast the GOP field.
The truth is more complex. During an ABC interview in October 2011, Senator Santorum reiterated his position on contraception: “It is not a constitutional right, the state has the right to pass whatever statutes they have.” Rick Santorum is one of the staunchest pro-life politicians in America. For some time, he has spoken about the travesty of the Supreme Court’s 1967 “Griswald” opinion. In that case the Supreme Court had to determine whether or not states could regulate contraception. Unfortunately, in the majority opinion the Court went beyond contraception and “discovered” a new universal Constitutional right to privacy. Though not found in the Bill of Rights, the Court claimed that “penumbras and emanations” from the Bill of Rights granted this reversal of almost two centuries of Supreme Court precedence. The Federal Government no longer had to find its mandate to power in the Constitution, but could make it up.
Senator Santorum’s primary problem with the Griswald opinion was that the “penumbras and emanations” language was cited to justify the Constitutional “right” to abortion in Roe v. Wade only six years later. Therefore, in addition to the problems Griswald created with further empowerment of the Federal Government at the expense of the states, it greatly assisted abortion. In the interest of cutting spending to the bone to control our national debt, Senator Santorum does want to end federal funding of both abortion and contraception. He has stated many times he believes contraception to be a state issue. That said, it is clearly one that will not be outlawed by the states. As a devout Catholic, Rick personally follows Church teachings on contraception. However, he will not seek to outlaw it and has no history of trying to ban contraception. That’s just poppy-cock!
The radical Left in America, personified by journalists like Gene Robinson, are a reason our nation is in the state we find it. In reporting on complex positions, like those held by Rick Santorum, they seek to go beyond legitimate critique. They continue lies and half-truth to brand good men like Rick Santorum as, in the words of Robinson: “far-right fringe… a nice-guy zealot who should never be allowed anywhere near the Oval office.” Isn’t it amazing that Gene’s hero, President Obama, who has sped the nation toward near depression and depravity, is considered “mainstream” to Gene. While a thoughtful man of conscience like Rick Santorum is the “fringe”. Our founders would be rolling in their graves. It’s time we took back our nation in November.
Sola fide,
Bill Connor
Comments
Of the those three, only polygamous sex could be considered "consensual" I would think. Bestiality and pedophilia cannot be considered consensual since neither an animal nor a child is capable of legally consenting to anything.
Despite this objection regarding the definitions involved, I think Santorum is generally correct in that eventually, such decisions that override states' rights could be used as a foot in the door for those promoting other behavior that almost all citizens would object to.
As things stand now, though the US Supreme Court has usurped the rights of states to set laws regarding certain types of sexual behavior, the states are still in charge of setting ages of consent and setting the laws for punishing the abuse of animals. However, every decision that takes away a state's right to set the standards within its borders is one step closer to nationalizing a set of standards on these issues that might be objected to by a state's population.
Which all goes to press home the point that the states have to be in charge of their own laws in order to accommodate the differences among various populations. Micromanaging from the federal level is a disaster that leaves no one happy and is not a legal solution since it goes against the Constitutional contract. Even within a state, it is difficult enough to reach a decision on some contentious issues but add regional differences to the mix and it is nigh impossible to reach a satisfactory resolution.
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