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Santorum Claims Right to Your Bedroom

Santorum is right - well, about one thing. He's right that it takes a family. The problem is that he has a very narrow-minded view of the family.

It is a great thing to see parents involved with their kids, even if those parents are non-traditional. Children need adults in their lives and Santorum's view that these adults MUST be one man and one woman is just limiting. It can sometimes be strong parental influence from aunts or uncles, grandparents, even a mother and her same-gender spouse.

Why do so many people flock to such restrictive viewpoints? The harsh nature of Santorum's worldview creates tensions and anxieties that can hurt growing minds.

Those with Santorum's choked view on what constitutes a family want to force that view on us all, precluding some wonderful extended and non-traditional families. They threaten the warmth of American culture.

What drives their desire to strip us of our right to choose our own families is their need for an authoritarian society. A world driven by moral imperative, created by a harsh law-giver, must have an authority structure, a chain of command. Santorum's family is simply the smallest unit in that chain of command. He then proposes a strict government dictating your every thought. He may not see himself as a divine-right monarchist, but that's where his line of reasoning ends up.

He has to defend the government's right to monitor your bedroom and to dictate what you do in your most private moments. It is a necessary view in his world of dictated beliefs and his world of an absolute religious dictator.
posted by Unknown at 4:22 PM