Tag Archives: Rick Santorum

Helping Obama to Victory

Posted on February 16, 2012 by Andrew Stuttaford

If ever the GOP were to score points in the contraception wars it ought to have been at the beginning of the controversy, when it was easiest to frame the discussion in terms of religious freedom. Well, it hasn’t been … Continue reading →

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Oh Please

Posted on February 10, 2012 by Andrew Stuttaford

As a reminder that the enviros, the New York Times and the other usual suspects on the left do not have a monopoly on the politics of panic, here’s Santorum: They are taking faith and crushing it. Why? Why? When … Continue reading →

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“A Gift in a Very Broken Way”

Posted on January 28, 2012 by Andrew Stuttaford

Via Think Progress (I know, I know), here’s Rick Santorum explaining why a woman left pregnant should be compelled to give birth: Well, you can make the argument that if she doesn’t have this baby, if she kills her child, … Continue reading →

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Rick Santorum & Opus Dei

Posted on January 8, 2012 by Andrew Stuttaford

I touched the other day on the fact that Rick Santorum had included Opus Dei in the list of organizations he chose to praise for the “new evangelization” (he also included Regnum Christi, a group of which I had never … Continue reading →

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Rick Santorum on Romney & Religion

Posted on January 8, 2012 by Andrew Stuttaford

Here’s Rick Santorum writing on Romney and religion back in 2007. The whole piece is worth a look, both for what it does say and what it does not. In the following extract Santorum makes the (reasonable) point that a … Continue reading →

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Toeing the Line

Posted on January 4, 2012 by Andrew Stuttaford

The Huffington Post (I know, I know) dredges up this 2002 article by the gift-of-God-to-Obama better known as Santorum, and, yes, it’s worth reading, particularly this: Like most American Catholics, I have followed the recent sex scandals in the Church … Continue reading →

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“A License to do Things”

Posted on October 19, 2011 by Andrew Stuttaford

Via ThinkProgress Health (I know, I know) comes this gem from Santorum: Rick Santorum pledged to repeal all federal funding for contraception, during a recent interview with CaffeinatedThoughts.com editor Shane Vander Hart, arguing that birth control devalues the act of … Continue reading →

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God: Swing Voter, Fickle Too…

Posted on June 11, 2011 by Andrew Stuttaford

Via New York Magazine After a thorough investigation, Daily Intel has discovered that God is separately backing at least three different contenders for the Republican presidential nomination. Over the course of the past few months and even years, God has … Continue reading →

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Rick Santorum, No Thanks

Posted on May 10, 2011 by Andrew Stuttaford

Here’s the Washington Post’s Jennifer Rubin on Rick Santorum: At the Republican presidential debate on Thursday Rick Santorum was asked about Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels’s suggestion that there be a social truce. Santorum answered, “Anybody that would suggest we call … Continue reading →

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