Santorum has come down with Trent Lott disease

While the rest of the world worries about getting SARS, Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum has come down with a different malady: a bad case of hoof-in-mouth disease.

He's like Trent Lott, only worse. At least Lott didn't say it's a crime to be black. But Santorum says it's a crime to be gay