Here’s the column in question. I just read it quickly, but it doesn’t seem to warrant the outrage Ted Kennedy has belatedly taken to the Senate floor with. If you read liberalism as relativism, as Santorum clearly means it in the piece, what he says makes some sense. He wasn’t blaming the people of Boston for the scandals in the Catholic Church. He wasn’t excusing any criminals for their crimes or trying to erase their culpability. He wasn’t blaming some random gay man in Boston. John Kerry didn’t cause the scandals. But a culture that isn’t too keen on traditional moral values, right vs. wrong, and discipline, might play some kind of contributing role in what should be a stalwart in these realms (the Catholic Church) not teaching, cultivating, and enforcing what it should be. That, it seems, is what Santorum was saying. He wasn’t the only one saying that kinda thing. And folks would have been remiss not to ask such questions.