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.
And that's what this idiot thinks is right, the government being in charge of setting and enforcing God's laws for the citizens.
I don't think he is for enforcing Gods laws. I think he bases his philosophy on what he learned from the Bible. He probably doesn't always get it right.
But just because abortion is against Gods Law doesn't mean we are obliged to do the opposite. It isn't like God is a bad guy or anything.
I don't think he is for enforcing Gods laws. I think he bases his philosophy on what he learned from the Bible. He probably doesn't always get it right.
I think he's saying whatever it takes to get elected to power. Just like the rest of those fuckheads.
If he understood the Bible he wouldn't be in favor of using government power to force it onto people's lives.
