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Rick Santorum is a Roman Catholic bigot, who is running for the White House on a social agenda designed to appeal to the religious right of the Republican Party. It is an agenda that should exclude him from serious consideration by any Republican Party that seriously wishes to bring down a left-of-center incumbent President.

America is a multi-cultural, multi-religious country dedicated to the preservation of religious freedom,  including the freedom to be agnostic or atheistic. The early history of the colonies inculcated in  the Founding Fathers the wisdom of  protecting European immigrants at large from the Roman Catholic religious persecution from which they had originally fled. The Founders provided such protection by requiring a strict separation between Church and State – a separation that is written into the United States Constitution. 

When Rick Santorum states in public that the very notion of such a separation makes him want to vomit, one knows immediately that he could not take the oath of office to preserve and to protect that Constitution. He is disqualified from the office of the presidency even before he runs for that office.

As is evident not only from his many speeches, but also from the size of his family, Rick Santorum follows Roman Catholic doctrine by abstaining from the use of contraceptives and from resort to abortion. His family has paid a price for that decision, since, as is not unusual in very large families, the youngest offspring are prone to genetic disorders. That is his private choice, sacrosanct in terms of the Constitution.

However, should Rick Santorum attempt to use the office of the White House to impose Roman Catholic doctrine upon the population at large, by any method short of a constitutional amendment, he would violate the Constitution itself. Moreover, if successful, he would place American families at the risk of adverse health consequences that he has freely accepted for his own family, almost certainly without personally bearing the financial costs that such  health-afflicted American households would be expected to incur.

The fact that a political candidate can run such a campaign as a religious bigot without quickly disappearing from the race sends out an alarming message about America. A sizeable proportion of its population evidently is anxious to return the country to the Middle Ages, when irrational beliefs dominated reason, and when a ruthless self-serving, wealth-seeking Roman Catholic Church dominated Western Europe. Note that on the chess board, the bishops, not the knights, or their castles, are situated closest to the throne.

How long before you would introduce America to the Spanish Inquisition, President Santorum?  How soon before apostasy would be punishable by torture and execution?

Tags: religious bigotry, Rick santorum, Roman Catholicism, separation between church and state, Spanish Inquisition

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