Santorum takes back workplace-diversity support
Less than a week after becoming the 170th member of Congress to affirm that his office does not discriminate in its employment practices based on "sexual orientation or gender identity and expression," U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum (news, bio, voting record), R-Pa., on Wednesday rescinded his signature on the diversity statement.
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Santorum's signature came after a meeting during the week of July 24 between the senator and GenderPAC volunteers. After the meeting, Santorum posed for a picture with them. A copy of the senator's statement was faxed to GenderPAC on Aug. 1, and the signature was confirmed the next morning by Santorum's openly gay communications director, Robert Traynham.
On Wednesday, Santorum faxed GenderPAC a new statement that read in part, "To be clear, my office has not adopted the proposed 'diversity statement' nor the agenda of your organization. . . . My name should no longer be reported as having adopted the 'diversity statement.'"
I don't know what to make of this except to say, "How fucking stupid can one man be?" And this is more than just giving the okay to discriminate against gay people. The man is trailing in the polls by double digits. Rather than try to reach out to new voters and demonstrate he's not as homophobic as is his base, he's kissing the Holy Terrors' collective ass, alienating the few undecideds who might actually dream of believing he's not such a bad guy after all.
Does he really think he's going to draw more voters by this stupid, stupid move? It's not as if there were undecided voters somewhere in Pittsburgh going, "Hmm. He wasn't homophobic enough for my tastes. This move clinches it for me." He seems more scared of alienating the Holy Terrors than he is interested in attracting voters who are a little less reactionary.
Bush has been doing this, too. His whole veto of the stem-cell research bill was to keep the Holy Terrors happy.
Earlier, I poked fun at the Senator, that he finds it "Hard out here for a pimp..."
Harder still to be a whore, don't you think?
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