Buchanan Defends Santorum

WORLDNETDAILY.COM , April 28 — Catholic TV pundit Patrick Buchanan came out swinging on April 28 in defense of Sen. Rick Santorum, a Catholic senator from Pennsylvania who was criticized in April for saying in response to a court case regarding a sodomy law, “If the Supreme Court says that you have the right to have consensual sex within your home, then you have the right to bigamy, you have the right to polygamy, you have the right to incest, you have the right to adultery. You have the right to anything.”

Buchanan said Santorum had been “hauled before a modern inquisition, scourged and ordered to grovel and apologize or be stretched on the rack.”

Buchanan noted Santorum's comments reflected “the moral position of John Paul II, supreme pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church, to which Santorum belongs, and of most Americans.”

But, he said, “the traditional Christian moral code in which he believes and which informed his remark is no longer the moral code of the American elite. Indeed, it is detested by that elite as the codification of hatred and intolerance. ... [I]t would seem that it is Santorum — the target of vilification and demands for his ouster because of his views — who is the real victim.”

Buchanan warned that America is “getting close to a religious test for high office, a test that no believing, practicing Christian is going to be able to pass.

Court Refuses Appeal in Defense of Public Cross

PRIMENEWS.COM , April 22 — The U.S. Supreme Court on April 21 declined without comment to hear a petition submitted by the city of San Diego in defense of a cross that long sat on public land atop Mount Soledad Park.

In response to previous court cases, the city had sold the land on which the cross stands to a private veterans group, which designated it a war memorial.

But the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals decided in a previous case that the sale of the cross was unconstitutional since the city had not offered the land to groups that wanted to destroy the cross.

According to PrimeNews.com, the city will now have to find another way to comply with the court rulings.

California Defends Drag Queens and Transsexuals

EVERYTHINGCHRISTIAN.ORG , April 24 — The California state Assembly came to the defense of drag queens and transsexuals with a vote on April 24 in favor of a bill adding cross-dressers to the list of protected minorities in that state and threatening businesses who decline to hire men in wigs and dresses with fines of up to $150,000.

The bill is a threat to Christians, warned Randy Thomasson of Campaign for California Families, who said it “would give drag queens unprecedented power to persecute the Boy Scouts and religious businesses, even the power to shut down a Bible bookstore. This radical bill engages in reverse discrimination and would do real harm to persons of conscience.”