In a message dated 8/21/2005 5:03:33 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, Stormy435@xxxxxxx writes: quoting "Al Mascitti's weblog" U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum, the Republican from Pennsylvania, espouses many controversial views -- that women shouldn't work outside the home, that legalizing gay marriage would lead to legalizing polygamy and bestiality, that government should discourage birth control. He's even written a book, "It Takes a Family," to spread his viewpoint. Actually, although I'm not his biggest fan, none of that is accurate. The Senator's wife happens to be an attorney. He does feel it's better for pre-school children to be raised in their home by a PARENT and not shuffled off to day care...duh!...His comments re polygamy and the rest, though unpopular and hardly PC were made from a legal standpoint, and what do you know, proved correct...some bozo from Utah filed suite citing gay marriage legislation as a basis in fact for being allowed to keep his multiple wives. Senator Santorum's view on birth control has to do w/ NOT getting the federal government involved (read financing) family planning...humph...for OTHER PEOPLE'S CHILDREN... "It takes a Family" is a poke at Hillary's "It Takes a Village"....(and what's wrong w/ that? as part of this whole "village" thing, I'm all in favor of a "family" taking responsibility for the children they choose to bring up!), and so forth...I have no idea if the crowd at the book signing was going to get nasty, but that's a nice area and PRIVATE PROPERTY and if it looked like there was that potential, it doesn't surprise me that the state police shuffled them off... Can we give this PAWS thing a rest, or at least, if we are going to be political, can we at least cite factual articles? Kathy three generations of Dual Titled Champions live here! visit _Pine Hill German Shepherd Dogs_ (http://www.geocities.com/pinehillgsds/) ============================================================================ POST is Copyrighted 2005. All material remains the property of the original author and of GSD Communication, Inc. NO REPRODUCTIONS or FORWARDS of any kind are permitted without prior permission of the original author AND of the Showgsd-l Management. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. ALL PERSONS ARE ON NOTICE THAT THE FORWARDING, REPRODUCTION OR USE IN ANY MANNER OF ANY MATERIAL WHICH APPEARS ON SHOWGSD-L WITHOUT THE EXPRESS PERMISSION OF ALL PARTIES TO THE POST AND THE LIST MANAGEMENT IS EXPRESSLY FORBIDDEN, AND IS A VIOLATION OF LAW. VIOLATORS OF THIS PROHIBITION WILL BE PROSECUTED. For assistance, please contact the List Management at admin@xxxxxxxxxxxx VISIT OUR WEBSITE - http://www.showgsd.org ============================================================================