Whoever is advising Santorum really is drunk behind the wheel.
I've never liked Santorum because of his lockstep votes for the Bush agenda, but he's making it REALLY difficult to like him with his inability to keep from getting sidetracked on what should be personal issues. The GOP candidates had a chance to really knock the Obama admin for infringing on religious liberty, but they let the media sway the debate to one of birth control legality and church/state separation issues.
Why do you keep obsessing about birth control? Santorum is talking about the free exercise of religion, which includes the right of religious institutions to hold to the doctrines they proclaim. Obama is simply trying to nationalize the Catholic hospitals that now provide one-fourth of the medical care in the USA. He defines medical care to include contraceptives and abortions. Obamacare gives him the authority to do this. He could tomorrow order all hospitals to perform later-term abortions,. and maybe infanticide. And despite all the denials about “death panels,” he could institutionalize euthanasia for the deformed, the sick and the elderly. Oh, he wouldn’t dare, right now. But he arguably has the power.