[Mb-civic] Kennedy Rebukes Santorum for Comments - Washington Post

[William Swiggard]

<>Kennedy Rebukes Santorum for Comments
Republican Repeats Remark Linking Scandal to Boston 'Liberalism'

By Alan Cooperman
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, July 14, 2005; Page A02

Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.) led a phalanx of Massachusetts 
politicians yesterday in demanding that the third-ranking Republican in 
the Senate, Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania, apologize for blaming the 
Catholic Church's sex abuse scandal on "liberalism" in Boston.

In an indignant, unusually personal speech on the Senate floor, Kennedy 
said that "Boston-bashing might be in vogue with some Republicans, but 
Rick Santorum's statements are beyond the pale."

<>Other Massachusetts Democrats quickly piled on. Rep. Edward J. Markey 
said Santorum should apologize for maligning "the courageous Boston 
parishioners who finally stood up to decades of an international 
Catholic Church coverup."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/13/AR2005071302332.html?nav=hcmodule 

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