In 2003, then U. S. Senator Rick Santorum said, “In every society, the definition of marriage has not ever to my knowledge included homosexuality.  That’s not to pick on homosexuality.  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”.

Lumping homosexuality together with child abuse and bestiality is, of course, both stupid and vile.  Santorum, when called on his statement, refused to retract or modify it.  So a newspaper columnist decided to retaliate in kind.  He helped turn Santorum’s name into a neologism for “the frothy mix of lubricant and fecal matter that is sometimes the product of anal intercourse”.



The stunt was adopted by thousands, who posted the definition online, so that now, if you Google “santorum”, the neologism is one of the first things that comes up.  This has been an embarrassment to Santorum, associating his name ridiculously with a crude sexual image, just as he associated homosexuality with man on dog sex.  It’s a good thing, I think, and quite fair.  Whosoever diggeth a pit shall perish in it.