During a campaign event in Plano, Texas, the candidate charged Obama had an “overt hostility to faith.”…. “When you look and see what the left is trying to do in America today, progressives are trying to shutter faith, privatize it, push it out of the public square, oppress people of faith, strip their charitable deductions away from them, trying to weaken them, churches — trying to say that anyone who believes in the value of Judeo-Christian principles,” Santorum explained…. “As we saw in the Ninth Circuit just this week, that if you believe that [same sex marriage is wrong] — this is what the court said — that if believe that, if believe what’s taught in Genesis, if you believe what’s practiced Biblically and a generation since then you are irrational. The only possible reason you could believe this, according to the Ninth Circuit, is that you are a bigot and that you are a hater.”
Lest anyone suspect that I detest Rick Santorum and his ultra-Conservative Christianity, let me just say that you couldn’t be further from the truth. First of all, I generally like to know someone on a personal level before I take an active dislike to them. Second, I celebrate Santorum’s right to his beliefs. This is America, where freedom of speech, expression, and religion are guaranteed by the Constitution.
Someone really ought to give Santorum a refresher on those freedoms, because his “freedom of religion” means forcing everyone else to hew to his theology.
I will defend Santorum’s right to his beliefs until my fingers can no longer reach the keyboard. That said, I detest, abhor, and hate his narrow, fear-based, intolerant, anti-woman, one-religious-size-must-fit all world view. And the idea that Christians are being persecuted and marginalized by an anti-religion, Christianity-hating President is absurd on its face. That sort of ignorant fear-mongering should be something that every thinking American finds offensive. Sadly, too many Sheeple think Santorum is some sort of prophet.
And you wonder why I fear for the future of this country….
Barack Obama has put America on the path of executing religious people? Really? What’s next…telling us global climate change is a hoax? Oh, right; Little Ricky’s already crossed that Rubicon.
IF Santorum had anything of value to offer, I might (emphasis: “might”) be willing to listen to what he has to say, The problem, of course, is that he has nothing of value to add to the public discourse. No ideas, no vision, nothing remotely positive- unless you consider making specious and provably false accusations against the President to be “positive.”
The one thing Little Ricky does exceedingly well is appeal to those terrified that their faith is being threatened by the Socialist Kenyan Muslim in the White House. These are the people impervious to reality, truth, or reason, so they’re a perfect constituency for Santorum. He’s a handsome, eloquent salesman for fear-mongering and propaganda; what these anti-intellectual zealots don’t realize is what a President Santorum would mean for this country.
“They are taking faith and crushing it. Why? When you marginalize faith in America, when you remove the pillar of God-given rights then what’s left is the French Revolution. What’s left is a government that gives you rights. What’s left are no unalienable rights. What’s left is a government that will tell you who you are, what you’ll do and when you’ll do it. What’s left in France became the the guillotine.”
Santorum admitted that the U.S. was “a long way from that,” but if Obama had his way then “we are headed down that road,” citing the Obama administration’s decision to require nearly all private health insurance policies to cover family planning, including female contraceptives.
“Now is the time for America to rise up and say enough!” the GOP hopeful exclaimed.
Think about it for a second. Santorum is devoted to the truth only insofar as he can manipulate and mangle it to serve his agenda. He paints a picture of an America where God-fearing Patriotic Christians are being persecuted by an Administration that hates religion and wishes nothing more than to force Americans to live in secular sinfulness. This worldview is as absurd as it is dishonest, but that’s hardly Santorum’s concern. If it gets him to the White House, then it’s worth it.
What far too many Americans don’t- or refuse to- understand is that a Santorum Administration would look like a remake of The Handmaid’s Tale. Birth control would be illegal. The idea that women should control their own bodies would be illegal. Women would essentially become the property of men. What Santorum paints as restoring respect for religion is really just a smokescreen for forcing a disturbingly ultra-Conservative and intolerant uber-Jesus-y Christianity upon all Americans, regardless of their faith. Freedom of religion would become freedom to believe in ultra-Conservative Christianity and nothing but.
I find it laughable that Little Ricky is accusing President Obama of persecuting Christians. If Santorum wins the Presidency, the real persecution will be against those who don’t happen to share Santorum’s narrow, intolerant, hyper-religious worldview.
Is that REALLY the America we want??
