Rick Santorum does not speak for me....

This article was brought to my attention via Lauren at Feministe. It actually made me after I read the whole article feel a brief moment of shame that I share the same religion as Rick Santorum.

The impression he tries to give with his comment made me pause.....

It is startling that those in the media and academia appear most disturbed by this aberrant behavior, since they have zealously promoted moral relativism by sanctioning "private" moral matters such as alternative lifestyles. Priests, like all of us, are affected by culture. 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.

Priests that sexually abuse children are not created by alternative lifestyles. This is more of the same anti-homosexual bias that attemps to snow people into thinking that it is those Gay Priests out there abusing our children and if we just got rid of them? Life would be grand. Are there some pedophiles that are homosexual? Probably. However being a homosexual has nothing to do with the psychological disturbance that makes adults pedophiles. Is Rick Santorum running out there proclaiming that all Teachers that sexually abuse children are homosexual? No of course not.

It's more of the same Carl Roveish bs about blaming liberals for everything that is wrong. How long as Pedophilia existed as a problem? Certainly alot longer than there have been Liberals in Boston.

I find it ironic that Senator Santorum talks about how we should follow what the Pope states, emphasizing "the need for fidelity to the Church's teaching, especially in the area of morality," when he supports the President on the war in Iraq. Pope John Paul made it very clear his feelings about the war in Iraq:

In an annual "state of the world" address Jan. 13, the pope said the future of humanity depends partly on the earth's peoples and their leaders having the courage to say "no to war."

"War is not always inevitable. It is always a defeat for humanity," he said.

"And what are we to say of the threat of a war which could strike the people of Iraq, the land of the prophets, a people already sorely tried by more than 12 years of embargo?" he said.

"War is never just another means that one can choose to employ for settling differences between nations," he said.

The pope said the U.N. charter and international law "remind us war cannot be decided upon, even when it is a matter of ensuring the common good, except as the last option and in accordance with very strict conditions, without ignoring the consequences for the civilian population both during and after the military options."

So Senator Santorum, while you are out there trying to lay blame on liberalism and homosexuals as the reason for pedophile priests, and advising American Catholics to follow what the Pope has said, you might want to read up on what the definition of a hypocrite is.