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After Senator Rick Santorum, R-Pa, stood before Congress denounced homosexuality a spectacle ensued. When he equated gay sexual relations to sex with a dog, an LGBT community storm rose against him nationwide and he recieved his own place in history: Santorum has now become synonimous with "the frothy mixture of lube and fecal matter that is sometimes the byproduct of anal sex".

We can thank sex-columnist Dan Savage, author of Savage Love and editor of The Stranger in Seattle, for this. He made it a personal quest to defame the name of Penssylvania's Senator for his statements in the AP Interview.

SANTORUM...It's not, you know, man on child, man on dog, or whatever the case may be. It is one thing. And when you destroy that you have a dramatic impact on the quality —

AP: I'm sorry, I didn't think I was going to talk about "man on dog" with a United States senator, it's sort of freaking me out.

SANTORUM: And that's sort of where we are in today's world, unfortunately...

Philadelphia Weekly ran a feature on Savage and all of his hostilities. A previously well-known and frequently syndicated writer, he rose to a new level by making his web site, www.spreadingsantorum.com the number one hit on Google searches for "santorum". His site ranks above Santorum's own site. Check it out, click here.

Although it is an excellent profile, it leaves out one key element: by taking a political stance as Savage has alienated himself. Although he may have risen to a new level of notoriety and put Santorum's comments on a massive public display, he has pulled the pulpit out from beneath himself and now stands among the ranks of Michael Moore. Ouch. Ouch. and More Ouch.

True, Savage's reasons for hostility are indisputable (right?). Check out the full text of the AP interview. But, when you are having donations checks returned from Bob Casey's camp because they don't want to be affiliated with you, something needs to be said for the solidarity of the gay civil rights campaign. Notoriety cannot be gained at the price of self-respect, and we can't expect the religious right to take LGBT rights seriously when we are throwing scat in their faces. Though it is funny Mr. Savage, perhaps you have gone too far.