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Article: Editorial: HOMOSEXUALITY AND THE LAW: Sex and the Senator.
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- National Review
- Article date:
- May 19, 2003
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Sen. rick santorum, a conservative Republican from Pennsylvania, is in the dock for saying -- well, how to characterize what he said is a subject of dispute. In an interview with an AP reporter, Santorum implied that he supported state laws banning sodomy. The Supreme Court is expected to strike down such laws this term, but Santorum thought that the laws should stand. He feared that the Court would invalidate them as a violation of the "right to privacy." That right, he claimed, does not actually exist in the Constitution. If the court found that the right to privacy included a right to commit sodomy, he said, "then you have the right to bigamy, you have the right to ...