Fighting Hate and Ignorance With Google

Or, Why I Love the Internet and Also Dan Savage

Action:

“In an interview with the Associated Press (AP) taped on April 7, 2003 and published April 20, 2003, [Senator Rick] Santorum stated that he believed consenting adults do not have a Constitutional right to privacy with respect to sexual acts. Santorum described the ability to regulate consensual homosexual acts as comparable to the states’ ability to regulate other consensual and non-consensual sexual behaviors, such as adultery, polygamy, child molestation, incest, sodomy and zoophilia (bestiality), whose decriminalization he believed would threaten society and the family, as they are not monogamous and heterosexual.” (from Wikipedia)

Reaction:

Dan Savage, brilliant and hilarious sex columnist with a history of inventing new terminology (see pegging, saddlebacking), along with his readers, coined the term santorum after the senator. To this day, the new definition (that frothy mixture of lube and fecal matter that is sometimes the byproduct of anal sex), is the top (or near top) Google hit for the word santorum. That strikes me as utterly appropriate.

(Check out the saddlebacking thing, also hilarious)