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The Religious Bigotry of Rick Santorum
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| Contributor | Craverguy |
| Last Edited | Craverguy Feb 19, 2012 02:08pm |
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| Category | Commentary |
| Author | Frederick Clarkson |
| Media | Website - Daily Kos |
| News Date | Sunday, February 19, 2012 08:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Rick Santorum has sought to project a sunnily suburban, regular guy appeal as he vies for the GOP presidential nomination. But whenever I have seen him during the campaign, there seems to be a seething and loathing just beneath the surface that he has to struggle to keep from leaking out.
But back in 2008, while a senior fellow of the neoconservative Ethics and Public Policy Center, we got a glimpse of what it is that is so churning under his public face. In a speech, he quietly explained to students at Ave Maria University, in Naples, Florida that Satan, the "Father of Lies", is destroying America. Part of Satan's effort, according to Santorum, has been to so transform the mainline Protestant churches in America -- that they are no longer even Christian.
This may come as a surprise to the 45 million people of the member communions of the National Council of Churches, such as The Episcopal Church, the United Methodist Church, the United Church of Christ and the Presbyterian Church (USA). But Santorum's view that the mainline churches have gone the way of Satan is unambiguous -- as is his suggestion that his own Catholic Church remains Satan free.
Kyle Mantyla at RightWingWatch has posted an audiotape and transcript of Santorum's speech at the school, which was founded by Domino's Pizza magnate Thomas Monaghan.
Here is the section where Santorum denounced the historic Protestant churches: |
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