Poor Santorum

While Americans are up in arms over Senator Rick Santorum's controversial remarks about homosexuality, on this side of Big Pond media commentators and pundits seem that they couldn't care less.

You could expect that the Iraq crisis and emergence of virulent anti-Americanism would result in Santorum affair being used as perfect ammunition for America-bashing ("bigoted Protestant fundamentalists, Republican Nazis, intolerant idiots" etc.).

In Croatian media, however, this affair was hardly mentioned at all. The only comment I saw was in Slobodna Dalmacija, in a form of article written by correspondent Biljana Wilson. And, lo and behold, the article shows some sympathy for Santorum and his plight.

In USA you could say whatever you like about President, you can tell jokes about fat people, women etc. but try saying anything even remotely negative about homosexuals…

The rest of the article claims that US homosexuals have more power and clout than their proportion within general population would indicate.