Rick Santorum: The Thread

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I am astounded at the support Santorum has received. He's a loon. A nut. A buffoof, complete and totally. Ultimately, he is terrifying. An American who wants to be Ayatollah.

Says Santorum:

President Obama wants people to go to college because he's a snob. Says the guy with three degrees.

Contraception is "not okay". Really? I can only assume he means condoms as well. Anne Rice said it best:

I think that this obsession with pelvic politics on the part of Protestants and Catholics together, I think it is their doom that they’re spelling with this because people today have to plan their families. Nobody in America can have thirteen kids like my great-grandmother. It’s not possible. When the churches refuse to help people face the dilemmas of their time, when they turned away, when the Catholic Church wouldn’t even OK the pill people just had to ignore them. I know my great-grandmother had thirteen children, my grandmother had nine, my father had five, and I have two. This is the reality, as you know, when you’re sitting there facing what it means to have a child. I mean, in bringing that child up and to prepare that child for life. And then I think about my father and his eight brothers and sisters were scrambling around in two rooms. Today, they would be taken away by the state – I hate to say it, I’m not for the state taking people away, but probably they would be. Because they would be considered undernourished, under medicated, under-cared-for, undereducated, everything. And, I don’t know, for these churches not to recognize that this is what these people were facing. I’ll tell you what did it more than anything else in the twentieth century that sealed their downfall. It wasn’t the women’s movement; it was the rise of the child as a person. The twentieth century really saw the beginning of pediatrics, child labor laws, juvenile courts, identity of the teenager, and an interest in the child as a person. And that was new – that had never happened in history. For about three hundred years we’ve had children romanticized and people writing about children and feeling sorry for them and trying to make things better, but it really culminated in the twentieth century in actual laws that protected children from exploitation. And the Churches just really didn’t see that coming. They put everything they had behind the patriarchal family. They opposed child labor laws because they thought it interfered with the family’s right to have little Joey pick blackberries on the farm. You know?

Separation of church and state "was not our founder's vision" and makes him want to throw up? This leads to the logical conclusion that Rick Santorum fully supports theocratic regimes such as Iran and the Taliban. I'd like to ask him what other parts of our Constitution make him want to throw up - voting rights for women? Civil rights for non-white males? One can only wonder.