Quote of the day: Rudy makes it clear for the record that he doesn't think homosexuality is sinful unless (yikes!) you actually, you know, DO it

Sinful or not sinful? Quick, somebody call the pope!

"I believe that, um, homosexuality, heterosexuality as a, as a way somebody leads their life, is not, isn't sinful. It's the acts, the various acts that people perform that are sinful, not the orientation that they have."
--Rudy Giuliani, yesterday on Meet the Press, as transcribed by Alex Blaze on Bilerico

Rudy was responding to Tim Russert's question, "You don't think homosexuality is aberrant, unnatural, or sinful?" He noted, "My moral views on this come from the, you know, from the Catholic Church," and we know that this is indeed the official Church position, though we don't hear it trumpeted so much these days.

PARENTHETICAL QUESTION
Is Rudy subscribing to the Mitt Romney Doctrine of the Separation of Church and State? It's not clear, since it's not quite clear what the MRDSCS is. And anyway, Rudy doesn't say here exactly what policy implications his clarified view on homosexuality would have if he were actually elected president. But if the pandered-to homophobic Republican base gets its hopes up, that seems the intended effect.

Rudy apparently wasn't asked whether he pointed out this distinction to the gay couple who hosted him when his now ex-wife Donna Hanover invited him to move his cheating carcass out of Gracie Mansion, the New York City mayoral residence. That would have made for some cheery breakfast conversation, don't you think?

In, um, fairness (?) to Rudy, he was quick to do his own strange mea culpa: "Which includes me, by the way. Unfortunately I've had my own sins that I've had to confess and deal with and try to overcome, and so I'm very, very empathetic with people. We're all, we're all imperfect human beings struggling to, uh, to try to be better."

So Rudy will "try to be better" by, apparently, no longer cheating on and publicly humiliating his wives, or having government pay for his cheating expenses and private security, and perhaps even reexamining his association with the nation's worth of weirdos and pervs who seem to be manning his campaign. (I guess we would have to check with his spokespeople to find out just which of his potential sins are covered by this "confession" to Father Tim.) Whereas homos get to be better by stopping having all that sinful sex.

SLIGHTLY OFF-TOPIC QUESTION
What goes through your head when you're forced to think of Rudy having sex? I mean, with anyone or anything? Oh, the horror!

Alex explains in his account that he's tired of hearing that Rudy is "moderate on gay issues." "Maybe," he concludes, "this will end the media's myth that Rudy's the pro-gay Republican. But I'm not holding my breath."

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