All GOP presidential hopefuls are in the pro-life camp, but Rick Santorum is routinely hailed by pro-lifers as “a hero.”
As a member of the U.S. Senate from 1995 until 2007, Santorum was the prime author and champion of key pro-life bills, including the Born-Alive Infants Protection Act, a ban on
partial-birth abortion, and the Unborn Victims of Violence Act, which makes it a separate crime if an unborn child is harmed or killed during the commission of a stipulated list of federal crimes.
Santorum not only has signed the Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life Presidential Pledge, but he has helped raise money for that organization, too.
Santorum believes that abortion is never justified, including in cases of rape or incest. During a Republican presidential debate last summer in Ames, Iowa, when panelist Byron York noted that many Americans favor abortion under certain circumstances, Santorum didn’t flinch or back off from his uncompromising position.
“You know, the Supreme Court of the United States, in a recent case, said that a man who committed rape could not be killed, would not be subjected to the death penalty; yet the child conceived as a result of that rape could be,” he said. “That sounds to me like a country that doesn’t have its morals correct. That child did nothing wrong. That child is an innocent victim.”
“What I can tell you about Rick Santorum,” said Maria Vitale Gallagher of the Pennsylvania Pro-Life Federation, “ is that he has been pro-life not only in the public sphere, but in his private life. His pro-life witness is phenomenal.”
“He’s very pro-life and a good man,” said David O’Steen, executive director of the National Right to Life Committee. “As a family, the Santorums have faced challenges, and they have risen to these challenges and are a great family and a great couple.”
Family Life
The challenges to which O’Steen and others interviewed for this story referred concern two of the Santorum children. Shortly after Santorum led the fight against partial-birth abortion, his wife, Karen, a nurse, learned that the child she was carrying had a genetic defect.
The Santorums, who are Catholic, were urged to end the pregnancy. They refused. Their son, Gabriel, was born on Oct. 11, 1996, five months before his due date, and lived just two hours.
After Gabriel died in the hospital, the Santorums took their child home briefly so that their other children could meet their brother. “We wanted them to know that there was a baby and that his life was precious and that baby in the womb was real,” Santorum said in an interview on CBN, the Christian Broadcasting Network.
Karen Santorum wrote a book, Letters to Gabriel, about the loss of the baby. The foreword to the book was by Blessed Teresa of Calcutta. In the book, Karen admitted that the death was “a terrible nightmare,” but also wrote to Gabriel that “the only reassurance for your Daddy and me is our faith in God. I have learned to surrender even more to his protection and care.”
The second challenge came when the Santorums learned that another child would be born with a rare condition called Trisomy 18, which can cause heart defects, failure to grow normally and other problems. Most children with Trisomy 18, in which there are three No. 18 chromosomes rather than the normal two, die soon after being born, with only about 10% surviving past the first year. But those who make it past this benchmark sometimes attain adulthood.
Isabella Santorum was born in 2008. A doctor treating Isabella, then in hospice care, told the couple that their best hope was that a cold or some other minor illness would carry her off. The Santorums decided to remove their daughter from hospice so they could find doctors who would work to keep her alive.
Santorum later wrote a column for The Philadelphia Inquirer detailing how difficult it was to find doctors who were able to see Isabella as “a wanted and loved daughter and sister, as well as a beautiful gift from God,” rather than a disabled child waiting to die. Santorum addressed Isabella by name at the end of one GOP debate, telling his daughter that he would catch a late flight home to be with her.
The Marriage Issue
Santorum has been similarly staunch in taking a stand against same-sex “marriage,” which has earned him the enmity of homosexual-activist groups. One homosexual activist, Dan Savage, held a contest to see who could come up with a sexually explicit term to be called a “santorum.” The Internet search engine company Google has refused to remove the ugly neologism.
“Rick Santorum has been a hero of the movement in every sense on marriage, life and religious liberty. No one has been braver or taken more hits for his courage than Rick,” said Maggie Gallagher, co-founder of the National Organization for Marriage.
For Santorum, the issues of marriage and abortion aren’t just social issues — they spill over into his economic philosophy.
“You cannot have limited government if you have broken families, because someone has to pick up the pieces; and the ones who pick up the pieces are the taxpayers,” Santorum has said.
While some argue that an emphasis on social issues is detrimental to a politician’s chances of being elected, Santorum on Dec. 20 got two endorsements from family-issues leaders that some say could provide the needed boost in the Jan. 3 Iowa caucuses to make Santorum a first-tier candidate.
Santorum was endorsed by Bob Vander Plaats, a leading Christian conservative in Iowa, and Chuck Hurley, another family-issues stalwart. Both are affiliated with The Family Leader, which Vander Plaats founded. Hurley is president of the affiliated Iowa Family Policy Center.
“We care about any issue affecting the family, from the sanctity of human life to preserving a biblical view of marriage, and even issues such as gambling and economic issues,” said Julie Summa, spokeswoman for The Family Leader.
Summa said that the board of The Family Leader unanimously supported Santorum but decided that only the two leaders, not the organization, would endorse him because some of their conservative Christian constituency supports other candidates.
“When you listen to Senator Santorum speak,” Summa added, “he ties everything back to the family, including economics. Our economy is better when we have strong families.”
Economics
As might be expected for a candidate who puts an emphasis on the responsibilities of the family, Santorum proposes shrinking the role of government. He wants to roll back regulations, which he says kill jobs, and he would reduce taxes and simplify the tax code.
Santorum supports a balanced-budget amendment as a way to force the federal government to be fiscally responsible. The Club for Growth, which supports the free market, gave Santorum a 77% favorable rating for his last two years in the Senate. This is slightly above the Club for Growth’s 73% favorable rating for Senate Republicans for the same period.
The organization had no scorecard before that, but Santorum had a cumulative favorable rating of 76% on the scorecard of the National Taxpayers Union, another limited-government group, for his career both in the Senate and before that for four years in the U.S. House of Representatives. The average National Taxpayers Union score for Republicans in both houses for the same period was 71%.
“He has, in general, an above-average voting record on taxes and deserves credit for leading the fight for welfare reform during the 1990s and similarly for leading the fight for Social Security reform in the George W. Bush years,” said Barney Keller, spokesman for the Club for Growth.
“He started off as a very strong fiscal conservative,” said Nathan Benfield, director of policy analysis at the Commonwealth Foundation, a free-market group in Pennsylvania. “As a champion of welfare reform, he not only helped improve welfare programs, but he also saved money for the taxpayers. In his later years in office, he supported deficit spending.”
Santorum disappointed some small-government types with his support for what is called Medicare Part D, George W. Bush’s prescription-drug plan for older citizens. CNN reported earlier this year that Santorum now calls this vote a “mistake.” Supporters of Medicare D, arguing that it was right because it helps seniors pay for necessary medicines, would disagree.
Santorum and free-market advocates such as the Club for Growth or Commonwealth Foundation also parted company over several of his votes against free trade. Santorum voted in 1993 against the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), supported a high tariff on goods imported from China, and co-sponsored a bill to authorize tariffs on imported steel.
Benfield suggests that this might have been an almost inevitable vote because of the makeup of Santorum’s constituency, who may be socially conservative but work in manufacturing jobs and believe free trade harms them.
David Taylor, a member of the board of directors of the Pennsylvania Manufacturers’ Association, not unexpectedly supports Santorum’s stand on free trade. The organization doesn’t endorse candidates, but it has endorsed Santorum’s economic plan.
“We see Rick Santorum as the leader speaking most closely to what we believe and as having the most visionary plan,” said Taylor. Taylor said that three oil plants in the Philadelphia area may close, taking hundreds of jobs with them, because of a new spate of federal regulations. He believes that Santorum is the candidate most likely to roll back such regulation.
The Specter in His Past
Although Santorum has proven his bona fides in the eyes of many, some say they hold it against him that, in the 2004 Republican Senate primary in Pennsylvania, Santorum supported pro-choice liberal Republican Arlen Specter, who later switched parties and became a Democrat, against Sen. Pat Toomey, a pro-life candidate.
The Bush administration threw its support behind Specter. As a leader in the Senate, Santorum was expected to do the same.
“The thing that still irks conservatives is that Santorum went above and beyond [what was called for] to hurt Toomey’s chances,” said Pennsylvania consultant Ryan Safik, who worked on the Toomey campaign.
Toomey, who was elected to the Senate in 2010, lost to Specter by a smaller than expected margin, leaving a bitter taste for some who say that Santorum’s active support made the difference.
Quin Hillyer, a former Capitol Hill staff member, journalist and senior fellow at the Center for Individual Freedom, whose mission is to defend individual freedoms guaranteed by the Constitution, has no such reservations.
“I value genuineness in politicians — people who are the same in public as in private,” Hillyer said. “Rick Santorum is one of the most genuine elected officials I have ever come across in Washington.”
Register correspondent Charlotte Hays writes from Washington.
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“Santorum supports a balanced-budget amendment as a way to force the federal government to be fiscally responsible.” This is utter nonsense. The constitution doesn’t need an amendment requiring a balanced budget. That provision is already addressed in the document in its proscription of powers enumerated. A central bank and debt spending is NOT included in those powers. The silly notion that you can make a law to correct something like this is ridiculous. The Federal Reserve has to be destroyed. Central banking has to end or we are finished. You can’t have families, distributive wealth or employment, or private property under a system where the banks exercise the power of usury. RICK SANTORUM DOESN’T UNDERSTAND THIS. For him to run against RON PAUL demonstrates pride or ignorance about economics. He might not be a bad choice for VP under Paul but he does the Church and the country a disservice to think he has anything over a 30 year veteran that has clearly understood the failures of government and government policy in this country. And on the foreign affairs issue, Rick Santorum doesn’t have a solid Catholic approach. In that arena he is as much a NEOCON imperialist as the other establishment jokers. Step down rick. It is not your time.
I would have to disagree. Santorum is prolife only if unjust aggressive war is not a life issue. The Church has stated otherwise.
I think I am for Paul as well. Another unanswered question is what is Santorum’s stance on immigration?
I admire parts of Santorum’s record though. Secretary of Health and Human Services?!?!?
Oh, geez. What a bunch of garbage you guys are talking about. Ron Paul is “pro-life”, but he is still ok with abortions- he just doesn’t want it government funded. That is hardly a pro-life stance. Yes, it is better than Obama’s stance, but it does not end the issue of abortion, it just prevents it from being government funded. Paul also thinks two men or two women should be able to marry.
Santorum is not a neo-Con. He just believes in the safety of our country. If Iran gets a nuke, we will all be in trouble, as they will use that nuke- and Santorum understands that.
Oh, geez. What a bunch of garbage you guys are talking about. Ron Paul is “pro-life”, but he is still ok with abortions- he just doesn’t want it government funded. That is hardly a pro-life stance. Yes, it is better than Obama’s stance, but it does not end the issue of abortion, it just prevents it from being government funded. Paul also thinks two men or two women should be able to marry.
Santorum is not a neo-Con. He just believes in the safety of our country. If Iran gets a nuke, we will all be in trouble, as they will use that nuke- and Santorum understands that.
Santorum burned any bridges with true conservatives in PA when he supported Arlen Specter. And that is the real Santorum, playing patsie with libs when its good for him. No real proinciples. And he positively LUSTS for war. Why doesn’t he just go to Israel and sign up and fight for them? Why drag the whole US into these quagmires we have no business in?
Santorum burned any bridges with true conservatives in PA when he supported Arlen Specter. And that is the real Santorum, playing patsie with libs when its good for him. No real principles. And he positively LUSTS for war. Why doesn’t he just go to Israel and sign up and fight for them? Why drag the whole US into these quagmires in which we have no business being? The first posters are right, Santorum doesn’t understand economics, the evil of the Fed, the treasonous nature of the NDAA. Ron Paul does.
He’s also been an apologist for torture.
Santorum made a prudential judgment that Toomey would be defeated in the general election that year. He extracted a pledge from Specter that he would allow pro-life judicial nominees unscathed through the Senate Judiciary Committee—a pledge that Specter kept. Santorum believed that control of the Senate by Republicans that year depended upon keeping Specter in office, rather than taking a chance that Toomey would lose the general election to a Democrat. Democrats running the Senate never give a fair hearing to pro-life nominees of a Republican President. One might argue that Santorum’s judgment was, retrospectively, wrong—but that is 20/20 hindsight. He did what he believed to be the best thing to retain control of the Senate while extracting a pledge from Specter that would preserve Bush’s pro-life nominees to the bench.
I do not believe that Ron Paul is in favor of a Federal initiative to protect unborn babies; I believe that he is more libertarian in his view—namely, simply to leave the decision about the legality of abortion to the 50 individual States and the District of Columbia, free from any Constitutional constraints. Santorum would be in favor not only of overturning Roe v. Wade, but in favor of passing a Constitutional Amendment to protect all unborn babies regardless of which states they lived.
I do not agree with the “saber-rattling” that many Republicans give evidence of in regards to Iran.
But, overall, I trust a faithful Catholic far more than I do some of the neo-cons.
Rick Santorum has an excellent pro-life record and is admirably Catholic in his views.
That being sdaid, he does not stand a snowball’s chance in heck as a Presidential candidate.
1.) He could not get re-elected to the Senate in PA. In fact, he lost badly. You can stop right there. PA is also a key presidential electoral state.
2.) Unfortunately he needs a charisma transplant. He too often comes across as strident and mean.
He would best serve the country by getting out of the race and supporting the eventual GOP nominee. I could see him as a possibility for Attorney General or Health & Human Services Secretary.
“I value genuineness in politicians — people who are the same in public as in private,” Hillyer said. “Rick Santorum is one of the most genuine elected officials I have ever come across in Washington.”
Okay, so…this would appear to indicate that Santorum prefered Spector over Toomey at the kitchen table as well as on the campaign trail. Hardly a ringing pro-life endorsement there.
@ Paul
Ron Paul is a closet Libertarian running on the Republican ticket because he knows that a third party candidate cannot win. Libertarians are opposed to Christian morals. Their platform is much more Liberal than of true Liberty. Check out http://www.dehnbase.org/lpus/library/platform/ or just about any other Libertarian site. Like Glenn Beck, much of what Ron Paul says is TRUE but is embedded with POISON. TRUTH mixed with poison is POISONOUS. I am PRAYING for Rick to be elected. The Holy Spirit will lead him and America on a Godly course.
“Nemesis 2012” for Democrat would-be “transformers” of our Republic!
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If you read the Rush Limbaugh Transcript, two Callers surface a number of strategies in which Rush shows interest and of course contributes his own sound views.
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http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2011/03/07/don_t_expect_2012_gop_nominee_to_echo_bachmann_s_attack_on_obama
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“So no matter what the truth is, they’re going to accuse us of being things we’re not anyway. So go for it!” Rush refers to the situation that no matter what is truth they become unethical in their responses and can fool enough under-informed voters to think that the Democrats are morally superior. In close elections that can be decisive! Today’s Democratic leadership and too many of those who aid them are quick to become very negative because, with their enormous finances for TV ads for 2012, they will get away with successfully appealing to folks’ lower human-nature especially in targeted electoral-vote sensitive areas with concentrations of many good but under-informed people.
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In the early to mid-19th century the well educated founder of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul, Frederic Ozanam, though often under stress from health and adversarial segments in society, always treated even his adversaries with respect and help. One author on his life called his always reliable demeanor his “stupendous apostolate of friendliness”. While we cannot expect quite-similar demeanor amongst partisans in Congress, we can shame the current Democratic leadership and individuals acting like them.
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Since the book link is pdf, just type exactly these 3 words apostolate of friendliness into the upper “Find” window, click the drop-down and then click “Find Next in Current PDF” to see and read a bit about the phrase and the man.
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http://www.vincentians.ie/pdfs/colloque/Colloque Volume 45.pdf
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The “apostolate of friendliness” becomes a Nemesis to the Democrats because they work at being unfriendly in politics to the extent of steering the United States into creeping socialism where we can now describe an Obama-America being in a *pre-cancer* stage of the Cancer of full-blown-Socialism should he get a second term. For physical cancers, doctors urge acting early against pre-cancer stages or else risk unwanted, far worse consequences. Election 2012 is the ONLY solution to successful treatment of Obama/Democrat induced pre-cancer grade socialism.
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Free citizens are under no moral obligation to overlook pre-cancer stages which they have the right to judge for themselves. Why? History shows that once Socialism takes hold it is very hard to undo it. There is no deviation from the moral apostolate because the “common good” is GRAVELY OFFENDED by Socialism which disrespects human dignity and individual responsibility. When Obama seems to excuse himself from sinning by supporting his *most-unfriendly* conscience rules, we can logically link that surprising action for a Christian back to his telling-response to interviewer Cathleen Falsani in 2004, asking Obama ‘what is sin?’. Obama replies with it being something out of alignment with *his* values. But sin is knowingly acting against GOD’s values. So, it is plausible that Obama doesn’t consider himself sinning when stomping on our consciences perhaps because he does not value the conscience as truly sacred. He also shows uncertainty about the after-life, another reason for him not to highly value “conscience” in this life! He treats certain Christians as one can treat LOWER ANIMALS without consciences.
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http://blog.christianitytoday.com/ctpolitics/2008/11/obamas_fascinat.html
And finally, Barack Obama admits that he leaves open the possibility that he is entirely wrong about his faith. It is little wonder that true Christians do not recognize him as true Christian.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2008/07/11/finding-his-faith.html
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As suggested by a caller in the Limbaugh Transcript, we need to give examples from Democrat speeches and statements which show how they are egotistical, demanding from others what they won’t do but ought also to do themselves, making misleading promises (as at Notre Dame on conscience) and violating the Golden Rule they hide behind before selected audiences, thus violating Christianity’s Romans 3:8 (‘do no evil that good may come from it). Indeed, then-Sen. Barack Obama’s “Call to Renewal” 2006 speech is a very good starting point for shaming him and his democrat supporters with ads and debates in some of those same targeted areas. Good-though-poor people will then not blindly vote for a second term President Obama, as in 2008. Just opposing his policies is inadequate for people biased by leading Democrats cannot see the falseness in their teachers without the targeted counter-ads.
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In Call to Renewal, Obama *chides* Christians for not reading their bibles re a non-universal Jewish law while he ignores God’s clear inspiration for all time as well as universally, in John 1:3 (“through Him [Jesus Christ] *all*things were made”). Hence Jesus’ new children cannot be excluded from the “all”! It is John 1:3 that exposes chief abortion-Facilitator President Obama as showing Zero empathy for his self-proclaimed Savior and thus contempt. The truth that Americans, poor and not poor, must face is that anyone who mistreats His Savior with zero empathy and contempt will mistreat American citizens who oppose him once he gets a second term.
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Nemesis 2012 will expose why current Democratic leaders at many levels should not be elected or re-elected. While no Party is perfect, the current Democratic Party is dangerous to survival of the Republic. We need a new President Santorum AND both Houses to undo the damage. ONLY if we then build upon God’s ample guidance (psalm 127: “Unless God build the house, the laborers work in vain” i.e.,. FAIL!) will the Republic remain strong and free. Ora et Labora!
I believe he would be a good candidate. The problem is, is that he comes across as an arrogant,‘wise guy’.
@William F. Folger
Glenn Beck needs no one to accuse him of any more than he admits to and pushes. He is an apostate Catholic who became a Mormon. He is using truth mixed with the poison of FEAR to sell GOLD. He is ‘of the world’ and an entertainer… like so many palm readers and psychics. He is leading and driving people to mammonism, the pseudo-religion of the anti-Christ. (Apoc/Rev 13:17) http://www.newadvent.org/bible/rev013.htm
Jesus warned us that we cannot serve two masters; Beck talks about God but wants us to serve mammon. http://www.newadvent.org/bible/luk016.htm where,as, Jesus wants us to “Seek first the kingdom of God and His justice (righteousness)....” http://www.newadvent.org/bible/mat006.htm’
See where Jesus was born; in a manger, in Bethlehem, in the cold, in the dark of midnight, in poverty. Tonight!
What has happened to our faith in God. Don’t you think He would guide a good man like Santorum? Or would you rather have more of the same old politicians!
“I am PRAYING for Rick to be elected. The Holy Spirit will lead him and America on a Godly course.”
The man who allowed Texas government give in state tuition to illegal immigrants, and ordered state wide vaccinations of schoolgirls? He will be lead by a spirit, but I doubt whether it would be a holy one.
Here’s the fixed link for the broken one in my comment just above: Dec 24, 2011 9:41 AM (EST):
http://www.vincentians.ie/pdfs/colloque/Colloque Volume 45.pdf
Since the book link is pdf, just type exactly these 3 words apostolate of friendliness into the upper “Find” window, click the drop-down and then click “Find Next in Current PDF” to see and read a bit about the phrase and the man. (for site visitors perhaps not familiar with pdf)
Respectfully, Joseph Joyce, Rick Santorum is definitely NOT arrogant;when someone takes firm positions on controversial topics it might at times seem that way to some; however, subjective estimates of another’s mind always need allowance for one making a misjudgment.
Blessed Christmas to you Joseph and to all other well intentioned commenters.
It’ll be interesting to see how much character this lightweight really doesn’t possess the day Herman Cain, whose campaign is only suspended, decides to dump his unmerited politcal warchest on Santorum’s office door, and following that up with his endorsement of the former PA senator as the only chance America has of electing a real “prolife/profamily” candidate to the White House—and Santorum finds this endorsement and the booty that goes with it too irresistable to turn down.
Are Catholics in this country so hard up to even give Santorum more than the slightest moment of notice ... which is all he deserves?
Does anyone know why Santorum gave his endorsement to PRO ABORTION Arlen Specter when the other candidate in that primary was a Republican PRO LIFE person?
That really confuses me since you all seem to believe Santorum is a true pro life Catholic.
@Anymouse
You said, “The man who allowed Texas government give in state tuition to illegal immigrants, and ordered state wide vaccinations of schoolgirls?”
That was Rick Perry not Rick Santorum. This article is about Rick Santorum. I should have been more specific.
I am PRAYING for Rick SANTORUM to be elected. The Holy Spirit will lead him and America on a Godly course.
I’m watching Sen. Santorum carefully. A few years ago, I heard him debate Nancy Pelosi on late term abortion on the senate floor. He was asking such good questions, with such composure, he had her argument pinned to where she didn’t know whether she was coming or going. He was very, very impressive. It’s probably still on-line for easy listening.
I’ve also heard him interviewed on Christian radio, and like that he reaches across religious lines that divide, in order to put matters of life into the limelight, and to do what’s best morally speaking for our country, rather than to glue himself to fellow Catholics, to the detriment of what is in the best common good.
Like minded people, be they Catholic, non-Catholic Christian, Orthodox and God-fearing Jews, or even Mormons and other religions that know right from wrong (like killing babies is infanticide) need to link arms & tackle this issue, and also that of the protection of marriage between one man and one woman.
Sen. Santorum seems savvy. I don’t know where he stands on other issues though. No one man can solve all our country’s problems himself, but rather, it is with whom he surrounds himself that’s important.
I very much admire what I’ve seen of Michelle Bachmann too. Perhaps a ticket of Santorum/Bachmann would be a winner. President Obama and the left-leaning Democrats need to be ousted. Four years is enough. Too much damage - and our collective morals are in the toilet now.
Santorum is suspiciously obsessed with hating and denigrating The Gays. It seems at times he is more interested in The Gays than The Gays themselves. One might reasonably wonder if self-doubt/self-hatred is the motivation for his gay obsession/hatred?
Overall Santorum presents as a sanctimonious, bitter and cruel man who would impose his so-called morals on the citizens with no regard for personal liberty or human rights.
Gay Jay? There is nothing gay about something that God calls an abomination. “Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination.” (Leviticus 18:22)
The most deadly sins produce the most deadly diseases. Gay today—diseased tomorrow! No one should want this and neither does Santorum. Sexual perversions are a plague upon mankind. Where will it end??? in hell on earth and in eternity.
Ron Paull has many flaws, including abortion issues:
“Voted NO on restricting interstate transport of minors to get abortions. (Apr 2005)
Voted NO on making it a crime to harm a fetus during another crime. (Feb 2004)
Rated 56% by the NRLC, indicating a mixed record on abortion. (Dec 2006)”
snip http://www.issues2000.org/Ron_Paul.htm#Abortion
Why is Ron Paul against a parent deciding what’s right for their minor child?
But yet Ron Paul has robo calls in Iowa questioning Santorum’s pro-life stance.
Now let’s take a quick look at Rick Santorum’s record:
“On abortion, he is one of many senators who vote pro-life. The difference is that he is personally responsible for making sure a lot of these votes occur in the first place: He was an architect of the effort to ban partial-birth abortion, a strategy that energized the pro-life movement and allowed it to go on the political offensive.
By visiting the brain-damaged Terri Schiavo in Florida last year, Santorum may have hurt himself with voters, but he also demonstrated that he’s willing to take political risks to promote a culture of life.
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http://www.heymiller.com/2010/08/the-fate-of-rick/
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