Compassionate my ass

I was aghast at the news today that the White House issued a statement supporting homophobic Senator Rick Santorum. After 4 days of silence, the president waited, pondered, contemplated and stalled before deciding to give a bigot a big pat on the back. To me this sends a pretty clear message that our president is much more conservative than any of us thought on Election Day 2000, is totally ignorant about sexual orientation and has little regard for anyone who doesn't share his back-asswards idea of "family values." The issue that really gets me is that Santorum, and apparently Bush as well, have the nerve to try and separate "being a homosexual" (which is A-OK) and "committing homosexual acts" (which is totally unacceptable!!!). Do they expect gay people to just remain celibate their entire lives? What a sad state of affairs.