Sen. Rick Santorum, R-Pennsylvania — whose chief of staff is gay — once suggested that if society is forced to accept homosexuality it will eventually be forced to accept bestiality, ignoring the fact, of course, that bestiality by definition is nonconsensual.
On Sunday, we heard from a (fictional) representative of Sen. Santorum’s base. America’s favorite mafia don, Tony Soprano, a fictional resident of New Jersey, agrees with the senator from his neighoring state:
On Sunday night’s episode of “The Sopranos,” Tony (James Gandolfini) told his shrink Dr. Melfi (Lorraine Bracco) that when it comes to homosexuality, he agrees with “that Sen. Sanatorium, who says if we let this stuff go too far, pretty soon we’ll be f—ing dogs.” Santorum, several years back, made similar remarks, only he used more delicate language than Tony did.
We called Santorum’s office yesterday to ask if he was flattered about getting a shout-out on a popular show.
Apparently not.
“We’re not gonna dignify that comment by commenting on it,” said Santorum communications director Rob Traynham.
