For starters, does he realize that married women (men too!) use birth control? The impression that Santorum finds the prevalent practice of birth control “harmful to women” is, frankly, mind-numbing. If he meant to focus on teen sexual promiscuity, he surely could have, and thereby might have sounded less out of touch.
Now, he qualifies his religious views by saying he doesn’t vote against contraception “because it’s not the taking of a human life” (in other contexts he has emphasized that as a legal matter he has no problem with contraception). But how does that square with his professed belief that a candidate’s values are essential to understanding and predicting his behavior? Perhaps that’s an abortion-only rule. (And really, where are George Stephanopoulos’s questions on this topic when you need them?)
In any event, this sort of thing undermines Santorum’s electability argument. (Current polling match-ups between President Obama and each of the two frontrunners, before the GOP has a nominee and before Santorum’s record is out there, are virtually useless.) This is how, in part, he lost Pennsylvania — by appearing extreme and schoolmarmish, too far to the right of average voters in a purple state. If he is the nominee in 2012, he might get some blue-collar fellows, but what about those women in Ohio, Pennsylvania, etc.? And what about more secularized suburban communities? Fuggedaboutit.
I don't have much of a problem with having to follow God's laws.
I have a huge fucking problem with someone else telling me what God's laws are and forcing me to follow them.
Again, that's the taliban. And that's what this idiot thinks is right, the government being in charge of setting and enforcing God's laws for the citizens.
To you, someone is insanely evil for merely not being the sort of religion you are.
There are over a billion Muslims on the planet, they come in a broad range of cultures and degree of belief in their religion, and that faith has good and bad in it just like Christianity does.
All that pissing in the wind rhetorically about them does for you is make you smell a wee bit like a wet, fill diaper every time you diatribe away at everything Islamic.
Islam is not going away anymore than Christianity is, you should get antiquated with that wee bit of reality. The First Amendment giving Americans freedom of religion is something that should be respected and supported.
