Rick Santorum openly admits to wanting Christian theocracy

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  1. Giftedone

    Giftedone Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Santorum is a nutter and an embarassment to the GOP and America.

    If he gets the nomination Obama will be handed the election on a silver platter.
     
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    This is great. I hope he gets enough support and becomes the Republicans pick to take on Obama. It would mean Obama remains POTUS for the next four years.

    I wonder if, secretly, the Repubs actually want to keep Obama as President, because not one of those four candidates is Presidential material.
     
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    Makedde New Member Past Donor

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    True. Its amusing to watch Santorum dig his grave even deeper.
     
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    Giftedone Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    I think there is actually some merit to that thought.

    I do not know who will win the election this year but I can tell you that it is highly unlikely that the winner of this election will win in 2016.

    The Debt crisis in the US .. similar to Greece yet different in many ways .. is going to hit prior to 2016 unless a miracle happens.

    The proposed cuts .. 2 Trillion over 10 years.. are a Joke. Our deficits are 1.3 Billion a year and they are talking cutting 200 Billion.

    It is only a matter of time before the debt crisis forces austerity IMO.

    The odds of a President surviving austerity are really really low.
     
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    Never Left:

    Who are you and what have you done to the real "Never Left"?

    Proponents of the Catholic church and state joined at the hip need to realise that the Catholic Church is not a democracy. In fact, it is far more monolithic and controlling than Islam.
     
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    theunbubba Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    That is exactly correct. Now get the rest of these people to agree with us.
     
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    theunbubba Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    That is a (*)(*)(*)(*)ed lie and extremist distortion. He does not support criminalization of contraceptives. Nor does he support criminalizing ALL abortions.
     
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    Giftedone Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    So Santorum wont force raped women to go through with the pregnancy or if the Mother's life is in danger ?

    What about early term abortion ?
     
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    theunbubba Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Now you're being intentionally obtuse. You know what he was talking about in his post. You are denying that there are any distortions of Rick Santorum's posts and are trying to make the poster seem like he is denying what Santorum does support. You fail! We see through this tactic too.

    You people are extremely scared of Santorum. It shows with every distorted post.
     
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    He is opposed to contraception and abortion, though. Of course this doesn't mean he would seek to ban these things, but his opposition to these things are well known.
     
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    You are deliberately forgetting the Andalus problem too. That is what really triggered it. (*)(*)(*)(*)ed Sarazens.....LMAO
    I can't really believe anybody expects Rick Santorum to apologise for the Crusades. That's just nuts.
     
  12. Montoya

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    What gives Santorum the right to dictate to me that I have to live by HIS faith? Get the (*)(*)(*)(*) out of here, you are not wanted traitor.
     
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    I don't think Santorum is dictating to you.

    What he said was "The First Amendment means the free exercise of religion and that means bringing people and their faith into the public square."

    What he's saying is that Christians have just as much right to shape public policy as non-Christians do.
     
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    The OP represents partisan hysteria of course. Here's what Santorum said: “To say that people of faith have no role in the public square? You bet that makes you throw up. What kind of country do we live that says only people of non-faith can come into the public square and make their case?” - which is perfectly reasonable. I hope few people would advocate anti-religious discrimination.

    The cultural left is the established church in the U.S. The U.S. is closer to an atheocracy than a theocracy. The educational establishment receives billions of taxpayer dollars even though they discrimate against religious scholars and are intent on indoctrinating students. Planned Parenthood receives 100s of millions of taxpayer dollars despite their record of racism and mistreatment of women.

    Santorum's success shows that a lot of people are tired of the unceasing demands of gay activists and the abortion industry. I'm really enjoying the desperate shrieks from the limousine liberals (and their trained monkeys) attacking Santorum.
     
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    Free speech is in danger from these crazed atheocrats: Campus Speech Codes: Absurd, Tenacious, and Everywhere

    quote: In the fall of 2004 the Christian Student Fellowship at a Florida public college had pushed the administration too far: the CSF wanted to show Mel Gibson’sThe Passion of the Christ at their next meeting. The movie, which portrays the crucifixion of Jesus of Nazareth, was hardly an unknown quantity—it remains the highest grossing foreign language film in US box office history and the highest grossing religious film of all time worldwide. But it was not so popular with the administration of Indian River Community College (IRCC), which claimed that the students could not show it because it was “controversial” and “R-rated.”

    The University had previously allowed highly controversial productions and R-rated movies.
     
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    In WWII they drafted folks to age 42. I hope you like sand!
     
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    The First Amendment provides two protections: Freedom Of Religion and Freedom From Religion. Both are equally important.

    Codification of religious beliefs in our laws which violate Constitutionally protected Rights such as the Right of Equal Protection Under the Law as enumerated in the 14th Amendment which create discrimination based upon religious intolerance not only violates the Constitution but also the Republican Party Platform.

    http://www.gop.com/2008Platform/Values.htm

    Religious intolerance is not just the intolerance of religion but also the intolerance of religion.
     
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    In both cases what you mean is freedom from government.

    Religion must be protected from government - in this case protected from Obama and his anti-Christian minions.

    But also non-religious people or particular faiths must be protected from government that would try to impose a particular religion on them.

    Examples of that have been very rare since the Constitution was adopted.
     
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    Meh, they said the same thing about John F. Kennedy... that he'd be on his knees to the Pope, taking orders from him. Nixon's people tried hard to sell this crap, but it didn't work....

    That said, "Crusader Rick" Santorum is a myopic, incandescent idiot who is going to end destroying all of our hopes this year for getting rid of President Bernanke and his handpuppet, Obama. Wait and see! :buggered:
     
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    The People must be protected from government regardless of whether it's laws that infringe upon "Freedom Of Religion" or "Freedom From Religion" as religions in general have a dismal historical record of violating the inalienable Rights of the People.

    Rick Santorum, in advocating gender based discrimination in marriage based upon his religious beliefs and his religious intolerance of homosexual behavior, seeks to violate the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment and equal protection under the law is an inalienable Right for all People.
     
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    It is perfectly OK to write laws based on our religious beliefs.

    That's where the laws against murder come from.

    But in the case of homosexuals it is not simply a religious issue.

    Because gay marriage has never been the norm is practically any society in history - Christian or not.

    In fact the most anti-Christiam of the 20th Century was the Soviet Union where gay marriage was not legal either.
     
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    What an ignorant uninformed crap post. No its not OK to write laws based on religious views. You are un-American if you believe that.
     
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    Of course laws are influenced by religion.

    And by some people's lack of religion.

    How can you separate anyone from their personal beliefs?
     
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    Ah yes 'the norm' argument.

    Ready for this? take a deep breath!

    So was misogyny and denying women numerous rights.

    Next argument please.
     
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