Year: 2012
Santoeum Accuses Obama of ‘Phony Theology’
The president has reached a new low in this country’s history of oppressing religious freedom that we have never seen before. If he doesn’t want to call his imposition of his values a theology that’s fine, but it is an imposition of his values over a church who has very clear theological reasons for opposing what the Obama administration is forcing on them.
— Rick Santorum, quoted by NBC News, saying President Obama preaches “some phony ideal, some phony theology.”
Romney Does Not Excite Passion in Electorate
The Mitt Romney crisis transcends the seven straight national polls showing Rick Santorum in the lead. It goes beyond the embarrassing reality that the son of an auto executive and two-term governor has been behind in every Michigan poll conducted since Groundhog’s Day. Even more devastating for Romney is that elite Republicans have begun to conclude that he cannot, if nominated, beat Barack Obama. About the only argument that still works for Romney among GOP insiders is that he would be less of a drag on the ticket than the strident Santorum or the mercurial Newt Gingrich. … With the exception of Mike Dukakis (what is it about governors of Massachusetts?), it is impossible to recall a top-tier presidential contender who aroused such little passion among the voters.
— Walter Shapiro, writing in the New Republic.
Santorum: When I Said Obama Believed in a ‘Phony Theology,’ I Was Referring to Climate Change
After disparaging Pres. Obama’s religion in remarks to a tea party crowd in Ohio, GOP frontrunner Rick Santorum went on television yesterday in an attempt to walk back his statement that the president believes in “some phony theology. Not a theology based on the Bible. A different theology.”
Santorum said on the CBS “Face the Nation” program yesterday that he wasn’t questioning Obama’s Christian faith in claiming the president subscribes to a “phony theology,” the phrase he used in a speech to Tea Party activists in Ohio.
“I was talking about the radical environmentalists,” Santorum said. “That’s why I was talking about energy. This idea that man is here to serve the earth, as opposed to husband its resources and being good stewards of the earth, and I think that is a phony ideal.”
Climate science is a theology? Is Rick Santorum really that dumb? Well, yeah. Remember that Santorum was labeled the “Dumbest Member of Congress” when he served in the House in the 1990s — and just last month an aide to Sen. John McCain opined that “For pure, blind stupidity, nobody beats Santorum. In my 20 years in the Senate, I never met a dumber member.”
Americans See Iran as Our Greatest Enemy
32%
Of Americans mention Iran when asked to name the country that is the United States’ greatest enemy, up from 25% in 2011. China is second on the list, followed by North Korea, Afghanistan, and Iraq, according to Gallup.
For Mormons, Baptizing the Dead Is Like Putting Them on a Guest List
Mormons think of baptisms for the dead as a service to others, almost like adding family members’ names to a guest list.
– Forrest Wickman in article for Slate Magazine titled, “Can I Get on the Mormon “Do Not Baptize” List?” and subtitled, “How to avoid being baptized after you’re dead.”
Santorum’s Charitable Record a ‘Glaring Inconsistency’
He apparently believes in church doctrine about contraception but not about tithing.
— Jennifer Rubin, a conservative blogger at the Washington Post, commenting on the shameful fact that the murine Rick Santorum gives less than 2% of his income to charity. Rubin called Santorum’s record a “glaring inconsistency, and added, “I focus on the charitable giving because so much of Santorum’s career and a good deal of his writing focus on faith-based charities. So why did he personally give so little to the groups he lauds?” [emphasis is Rubin’s]
Santorum Stingy?
Less than 2%
Amount of his $923,000 income (after claiming depreciation on a condo) that Rick Santorum gave to charity in 2010. The average amount people in his million dollar income bracket give is 3.4%, but most Christians, which Santorum says he is, aspire to give 10%.
Santorum’s War on Religion: In 2008, He Attacked Protestantism As ‘Gone from the World of Christianity’
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GOP frontrunner Rick Santorum is on the stump in the Midwest making inflammatory statements that are designed to grab headlines. Yesterday, for example, he asserted that Pres. Obama believes in “some phony theology. Not a theology based on the Bible. A different theology.”
Santorum is engaging in the most outrageous faith-baiting since former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee called Mitt Romney’s Mormon religion a “Satanic cult” during the 2008 presidential campaign.
In reality, the president is a mainstream Protestant, just like every president before him except one, John F. Kennedy, who was a Catholic. Santorum, an ultra-conservative Catholic who is best-known for his anti-gay rhetoric, did not identify the president’s “phony” religion by name, but since he was speaking to a tea party crowd, he was obviously insinuating that the president was not a Christian at all.
Last month, Santorum infamously stood mute at a campaign event when one of his racist supporters described the president as an “avowed Muslim.”
Santorum is engaging in the most outrageous faith-baiting since former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee called Mitt Romney’s Mormon religion a “Satanic cult” during the 2008 presidential campaign.
Over the weekend, Chris Hayes, an editor of the Nation who hosts “Up with Chris Hayes,” a weekend morning political chat show on MSNBC, published the contents of a speech Santorum made at Ave Maria College, a right-wing Catholic school with ties to Domino’s Pizza, in which he excoriated American Protestantism:
Every Republican on Senate Judiciary Committee Voted against Renewing the Violence Against Women Act
After spending the last two years stripping away contraceptive and other reproductive rights, Republicans opened a new front on their war against women this week:
