Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum raised a ruckus when he said that if the Supreme Court sanctions consensual sodomy at home, it will be hard-pressed not to sanction private consensual acts of bigamy, polygamy, adultery, and incest. His comment goes to the question of the deviancy of homosexual acts. The chairman of Georgetown's Department of Theology says the Catholic Santorum's comment clearly reflects Catholic theology: "Catholic theology does not condone homosexual activity. However, it does not condemn homosexual persons."
With its agreement to set up a $2.7-billion fund to compensate the families of the 270 victims ($10 million per family) of the bombing of PanAm Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, Libya implicitly has acknowledged responsibility for the bombing. Yet Libya still has not acknowledged a governmental role in the attack. Isn't it about time? The bombing occurred 15 years ago - in 1988.
Oh, and what wonderful news from the UN. Here Comrade Fidel, "commandante" of the vast concentration camp called Cuba, rounds up 75 dissidents and sentences them to terms in his gulag of up to 28 years - and the good people at the UN re-elect Cuba to another three-year term on the UN Commission on Human Rights. The UN is a shaggy-dog sick joke.
Speaking of Communist regimes, China's conceivably could be brought down by SARS. The regime, run by the Communist Party, covered up SARS for months. Now the disease is ravaging the country, the economy, and daily life - and the citizenry is broadly angry. The regime's handling of the SARS epidemic poses the greatest threat to Communist suzerainty in China since Tiananmen Square, though where Tiananmen failed SARS ultimately might succeed.
And consider this: If SARS (and AIDS) developed naturally, imagine the devastation that could be caused by bioterrorists seeking to afflict the world with anything from smallpox to an exotic flu.