The Republican Unity group yesterday demanded that Republican Senator Rick Santorum apologize to gay men and lesbians for remarks equating homosexuality with bigamy and incest. Officials of the group include former President Gerald Ford and Mary Cheney, the daughter of the vice president. The group spoke out a day after Senate Majority Leader Dr. Bill Frist of Tennessee defended Santorum as a “voice for inclusion and compassion.” The White House has remained silent on the issue. Commenting on a Supreme Court challenge to a Texas law banning consensual sodomy, Santorum told the Associated Press, “If the Supreme Court says that you have the right to consensual sex within your home, then you have the right to bigamy, you have the right to incest, you have the right to adultery. You have the right to anything.” After Santorum complained Tuesday that the quote had been taken out of context, the AP released the full text of the interview. Santorum also said, “I have no problem with homosexuality. I have a problem with homosexual acts.”