http://andrewsullivan.thedailybeast.com/2012/02/the-nausea-of-santorum.html
http://andrewsullivan.thedailybeast.com/2012/02/what-kind-of-catholic-is-santorum.html "I am relieved [Santorum] is at least candid. For now we can see in plain view the religious fanaticism that has destroyed one of the major parties in this country, a destruction that is perilous for any workable politics. It must be defeated - and not by electing a plastic liar and panderer like Romney. But by nominating Santorum and defeating him by such a margin that this theo-political Frankenstein, which threatens both genuine faith and civil politics, is dispatched once and for all." [Santorum] "may well believe that man cannot actually destroy the earth through such violence as global warming, for the perfectly orthodox theological reason that the earth will come to an end (or be renewed) only when Christ comes again to judge the living and the dead. In other words, global warming cant exist because it is not in Gods providential plan: the Lord will decide when the earth expires. " This has no business in forming the laws and determining decisions for the largest - and militarily the only- superpower in the world. " There can be no absolute separation of church and state, let alone a desire to keep it so; and in their necessary interactions, the church must always prevail, or it is a violation of the First Amendment, and an attack on religious freedom. The church's teachings are also, according to theoconservatism, integral to the founding of the United States. Since constitutional rights are endowed from the Creator, and the Creator is the Judeo-Christian one, the notion of a neutral public square, embraced by liberals and those once called conservatives, is an attack on America. America is a special nation because of this unique founding on the Judeo-Christian God. It must therefore always be guided by God's will, and that will is self-evident to anyone, Catholic or Protestant, atheist or Mormon, Jew or Muslim, from natural law." Santorum's own words that the Separation of Church and State makes him want to throw up. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/26/santorum-church-and-state_n_1302246.html It will only take one of these guys to become President of the US for the whole thing to come crashing down, just as is feared (and unfortunately so far proven) with the extremists in Egypt and other parts of the world. I see this religious/racial extremism in my own country's politics as well though it is more subtle and it worries me. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:347513 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
