Shortly
after the odious Lawrence v. Texas decision in which the US Supreme
Court, in a grim foreshadowing of the short shrift it has given the
desecration of the concept of marriage, decided to toss a couple of
millenia of Western Civilization so no one’s libido would be restrained
by law, Rick Santorum gave an interview with Associated Press:
And
if the Supreme Court says that you have the right to consensual sex
within your home, then you have the right to bigamy, you have the right
to polygamy, you have the right to incest, you have the right to
adultery. You have the right to anything. Does that undermine the
fabric of our society? I would argue yes, it does. It all comes from, I
would argue, this right to privacy that doesn’t exist in my opinion in
the United States Constitution, this right that was created, it was
created in Griswold — Griswold was the contraceptive case — and
abortion. And now we’re just extending it out. And the further you
extend it out, the more you — this freedom actually intervenes and
affects the family. You say, well, it’s my individual freedom. Yes, but
it destroys the basic unit of our society because it condones behavior
that’s antithetical to strong healthy families. Whether it’s polygamy,
whether it’s adultery, where it’s sodomy, all of those things, are
antithetical to a healthy, stable, traditional family.
[...]
This [decison] is, quite honestly, the kind of figuring out how many
angels can
dance on the head of a pin that got us into this mess. I don’t intend
to argue “relativism” here, other to point out that to the average
reader of English this looks a helluva lot like it and I suspect Linker
rejects tying relativism to bestiality because of his own philosophical
and political biases. The way we have fetishized “tolerance” and
“affirmation” and linked it to sexual perversion guarantees very few
are going to like where this trip ends. And if we aren’t headed for
Gomorrah, you will certainly be able to see it from where we are bound.
Back to Rick Santorum. When the Supreme Court ruled that a state had no
right to regulate sexual behavior, presumably because the same
“penumbras” and “emanations” of the Constitution that decided Griswold
now protected butt-sex it didn’t take a genius to see where this was
going to end but the left and libertarians had to make fun of Santorum
because he gave away their game. Now we are here and there is no way to
arrest the momentum.
Illustration: Leda and
the Swan by Jules Roulleau.
