Piers Morgan interviews Rick Santorum on CNN.
Posted on 09/02/2011 2:24:52 PM PDT by NYer
September 1, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) - In the course of drilling Rick Santorum on homosexuality, CNN’s Piers Morgan accused the presidential candidate’s views of “bordering on bigotry” and challenged him as a fellow Catholic with different beliefs on the issue.
“I guess one of the reasons it’s troubling and difficult for people to come out [as gay] is because of the level of bigotry that’s out there against them. I have to say that your views you espoused on this issue are bordering on bigotry, aren’t they?” Morgan asked the candidate.
“I think just because we disagree on public policy, which is what the debate has been about which is marriage, doesn’t mean that it’s bigotry,” replied Santorum.
“Are you suggesting that the Bible and that the Catholic Church is bigoted? Well, if that’s what you believe, fine. I think that—I shouldn’t say ‘fine!’ ... Saying a church is bigoted because it holds that opinion that is Biblically based I think is in itself an act of bigotry,” he said.
“Well, I’m a Catholic, too,” Morgan responded. “I just think, unfortunately, we’re in a different era. We’re in a modern world.”
“Piers, I don’t think the truth changes. I don’t think right and wrong change based on different eras of time,” Santorum responded.
Later, before an audience of students at Pennsylvania State University, Santorum fumed over the charge of bigotry for upholding Catholic teaching on marriage as between a man and a woman.
“I had Piers Morgan call me a bigot, because I believe what the Catholic Church teaches with respect to homosexuality. I’m a ‘bigot’!” Santorum exclaimed.
“And, of course, we don’t elect bigots to office, we don’t give them professional licenses, we don’t give them preferential tax treatment. If you’re a preacher and you preach bigoted things, you think you’re going to be allowed to have a 501(c)3 as a church? Of course not.”
The exchange was picked up on the Catholic blogosphere, where commentators criticized Morgan for targeting the basic tenets of the Catholic Catechism.
“It was the equivalent of a frustrated child resorting to name calling,” Deacon Keith Fournier wrote on Catholic Online.
Bill Donohue of the Catholic League decried what he called “obvious Catholic-baiting.”
“If this is what we’ve come down to—cultural elites branding every person who holds to the traditional understanding of marriage as a bigot—then it’s a clear indication that the elites are incapable of rational discourse,” said Donohue.
Puhlease!!! Should read: "Will, I'm a Catholic in Name Only .... "
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Bill is right.
And it's a pretty pathetic society that has these moral and mental gerbils for its "elites," too.
Piers Morgan?
The lying hack who was run out of the UK after fabricating atrocity stories about British troops?
If the Catholic Church really stands for decency, it would kick Piers Morgan out in a very public, very humiliating manner!
But the Catholic Church today is a eunich of its former self.
I watched a couple of minutes of this “interview” (”interrogation” would be more accurate), and just wondered why even a wimp like Santorum would just sit there and be insulted by a slimy slug like Morgan.
Yes, Piers, you are in a different era: The era of Sodom and Gomorrah.........
He may be Catholic but he isn’t a Christian. He worships at the cult of liberalism.
Pray for America
If they asked me a question about my religion, I think I would answer something like “I’ll have to get clarification from my Pastor Jeremiah Wright. Oh Wait! I forgot that’s not MY pastor...”
Agree. They should have kicked out Kennedy, Biden, Pelosi, Cuomo and the whole set of scoundrels.
Whatever one thinks of him as a candidate in this election cycle, his is the kind of reasoned, principled response which must be made to the politically-correct censors of the so-called "progressive" movement.
Morgan may be catholic but all catholics are not catholics..
SOme catholics are “roman” others are “greek”.. yet others are “russian”...
And there are other catholics that are not orthodox at all..
Being christian is pretty universal..
This is how the radical nutjobs attack; it’s always with two main issues:
homosexuality (poor homosexuals, they just are so discriminated against)
Abortion-(what about RAPE, INCEST AND THE LIFE OF THE MOTHER)
The questions are always framed around those points: if you are against homos then you are for discrimination.
If you are against abortion, you are for women dying.
Conservatives need to quit being defensive about this! Stammering and stuttering and looking pathetic.
NO...we don’t discriminate. Rectal sex is unhealthy and violates the laws of nature AND God.
NO...we don’t want women to die (and this is where they need to whip out the facts about all the women that are dying through legalized abortion. there are TWO victims: the woman and the baby.
How tough is it to answer with the truth?? Stop saying “I think, I think” like it’s a debatable issue.
Geez
He’s right in there with Biden, Pelosi, Kennedy, Kerry, Sebelius, yadda yadda.
I respect Santorum. He doesn’t back down from what he believes in.
He is against abortion in ALL cases, including rape, because, if the rapist won’t be punished by death, why should the child?
Eat-Your-Piers is a Brit ! What else do your expect ?
Piers is rude, arrogant, - - - . Yeah! Piers could be the next replacement for Jay Carney, White House Spokesman.
Eat-Your-Piers is a Brit ! What else do your expect ?
Piers is rude, arrogant, - - - . Yeah! Piers could be the next replacement for Jay Carney, White House Spokesman.
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