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Rick Santorum has been called a latter-day Savonarola.
That’s far too grand. He’s more like a small-town mullah.
“Satan has his sights on the United States of America,” the conservative
presidential candidate warned in 2008. “Satan is attacking the great
institutions of America, using those great vices of pride, vanity and
sensuality as the root to attack all of the strong plants that has so
deeply rooted in the American tradition.”
When, in heaven’s name, did sensuality become a vice? Next he’ll be banning Barry White.
Santorum is not merely engaged in a culture war, but “a spiritual war,”
as he called it four years ago. “The Father of Lies has his sights on
what you would think the Father of Lies would have his sights on: a
good, decent, powerful, influential country — the United States of
America,” he told students at Ave Maria University in Florida. He added
that mainline Protestantism in this country “is in shambles. It is gone
from the world of Christianity as I see it.”
Satan strikes, a Catholic exorcist told me, when there are “soul
wounds.”
Santorum, who is considered “too Catholic” even by my
über-Catholic brothers, clearly believes that America’s soul wounds
include men and women having sex for reasons other than procreation,
people involved in same-sex relationships, women using contraception or
having prenatal testing, environmentalists who elevate “the Earth above
man,” women working outside the home, “anachronistic” public schools,
Mormonism (which he said is considered “a dangerous cult” by some
Christians), and President Obama (whom he obliquely and oddly compared
to Hitler and accused of having “some phony theology”).
Santorum didn’t go as far as evangelist Franklin Graham, who heinously
doubted the president’s Christianity on “Morning Joe.”
Mullah Rick, who has turned prayer into a career move, told ABC News’s
Jake Tapper that he disagreed with the 1965 Supreme Court decision
striking down a ban on contraception. And, in October, he insisted that
contraception is “not O.K. It’s a license to do things in a sexual realm
that is counter to how things are supposed to be.”
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