In a rare personal attack on the Senate floor, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy accused Sen. Rick Santorum on Wednesday of being self-righteous and insensitive for a column he wrote three years ago linking Boston�s liberalism to the sex abuse scandal in its Catholic diocese.
Santorum, R-Pa., wrote in the July 2002 column for Catholic Online that promoting alternative lifestyles feeds such aberrant behavior as priests molesting children.
�Priests, like all of us, are affected by culture,� Santorum wrote. �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.�
In a speech, Kennedy, D-Mass., called for Santorum to retract his remarks and apologize to the people of Boston and Massachusetts and the nation.
�The people of Boston are to blame for the clergy sexual abuse? That is an irresponsible, insensitive and inexcusable thing to say,� said Kennedy.
Robert Traynham, a spokesman for Santorum, said his boss recognizes that the church abuse scandal was not just in Boston, but all over the country.
Throughout the United States, sexual abuse by priests has cost the Catholic Church more than $1 billion. The Archdiocese of Philadelphia has said that its records show 44 priests have been �credibly� accused of molesting minors since the 1950s.
Traynham said Santorum �was speaking to a broader cultural argument about the need for everyone to take these issues very, very seriously.� (End of Article)
(Well it looks like the Dems are really losing it folks, commenting on something that was stated in 2002 by a Republican to a church group. Wow. Just goes to show you what alcohol will do to your brain Mr. Kennedy. S L O W S I T W A Y D O W N !)
J.R.
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