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Santorum: Separation of Church and State Not Absolute
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| 02/27/2012
| By Napp Nazworth
Posted on 02/27/2012 12:38:23 PM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: BuckeyeTexan
Over all, I think you're correct.
The response, I believe, was correct in spirit. The problem with Santorum is that he is about as unartful a spokesman as I have ever seen. He allows himself to be trapped into these issues and then he has to explain his way out of his response. I don't think GWB was as inarticulate as Santorum. The man is tone deaf to what he says and how it will be interpreted.
His response on the college education issue was even worse than his church and state response. It was just plain stupid . . . "don't send your kids to college because they might be indoctrinated into liberalism???" Really?? That's his answer to higher education?
I don't like Santorum, because he is not likeable. He is dreary, depressing, negative, self-righteous, and lacks vision. He doesn't project optimism, as Reagan was able to do and as Gingrich does . . . he projects a grim determination and a bleak future.
Reagan was able to address the problems of the Carter years, yet provide us with hope for a brighter, more successful future. He saw America as the exemplar towards which the world looked. He literally saw America as that "shining city on the hill." Santorum seems to project a grim, dark, gothic cathedral on the hill--probably with gargoyles staring out at the world.
Beyond that, I do not think Santorum could beat Obama; his feet are too firmly implanted in his mouth.
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posted on
02/27/2012 2:21:35 PM PST
by
Sudetenland
(Anybody but Obama!!!!)
To: Utmost Certainty
Thanks. I understand the desire to keep people from making mistakes, none of us wants to see someone get hurt (or worse, hurt someone else), by being stupid and careless. But if we clinch down and force people to do “right” we ourselves are doing “wrong.” We cannot solve that problem other than “working out our salvation” that is to say, stumbling, and realizing we need help from our Savior (I don’t mean to be preachy, but this is a site for God, too!). Anyway, we have to be willing to make some mistakes and have some mistakes be made and then remedied. We wouldn’t have civil courts if everything could be solved by being criminalized (an attempt in full force, I may add). Let’s face it, we live in a fallen world, so we’re not going to be perfect, as individuals, or as society. We have the right to choose how we live, but not how others do. They gotta learn somehow, you know?
The thing is, that I’m convinced that 99% of all issues that “social conservatives” would be solved if government got back where it should be. No government funded abortions. No tax or other incentives for same-sex couples, etc. (I don’t even understand the delineation between a “plain ole’” conservative and a “Social conservative”, except people who want more laws for their cause). I dunno, maybe I’m old fashioned, but I don’t want a huge government telling me what to do. Besides, if people aren’t worried about God, they surely aren’t worried about Government. So then we have to lock up all the non-compliers. We’re beyond the point of just having the largest prison population on the planet (by many fold, if we go by “per capita”), but we’re nearing a police state. I don’t want to pay for all those prisoners. But that’s for another thread!
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posted on
02/27/2012 2:27:09 PM PST
by
JDW11235
(http://www.thirty-thousand.org/)
To: SeekAndFind
“Separation of Church and state” isn’t in the US Constitution, it’s from the Soviet Constitution liberals believe in.
To: BuckeyeTexan
election-losing comment from Santorum. It may be so. However, I would very much hope that Santorum's candidacy breaks the dam on religious freedom just like Goldwater's campaign paved the way for cold-war conservatism of Reagan or Rush Limbaugh's radio program articulated the fiscal conservatism of the Gingrich revolution. Rick may lose this time, but he is raising a critical issue which the GOP cowards are afraid to talk about. And he is young. His caliber as a politician of national appeal just rose. He is a courageous man.
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posted on
02/27/2012 6:31:50 PM PST
by
annalex
(http://www.catecheticsonline.com/CatenaAurea.php)
To: Utmost Certainty
It is the business of government to make people behave themselves. churchgoing people are more likely to do this than non-church-going people. Our founding fathers celebrated virtue, and it is one of the purposes of a church to instill virtue.
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posted on
02/29/2012 12:14:34 AM PST
by
RobbyS
(Christus rex.)
To: Sudetenland
Jeremiah was not too popular either, but he was always right.
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posted on
02/29/2012 12:19:11 AM PST
by
RobbyS
(Christus rex.)
To: annalex
I think it was Newt who made the first remarks about the administration s war on religion.
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posted on
02/29/2012 12:21:12 AM PST
by
RobbyS
(Christus rex.)
To: Utmost Certainty
"What's the alternative? Establish laws explicitly prohibiting every immoral act a person might do?"
Most State criminal codes are specifically enacted to prohibit a wide range of immoral acts. If governments didn't legislate morality then nothing would be a crime.
To: RobbyS
Could be: Obama’s war on religion (other than his own) is hard to miss.
What is to Santorum’s credit is not noticing the obvious but pointing out the cowardness of JFK’s private Catholicism.
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posted on
02/29/2012 5:17:14 AM PST
by
annalex
(http://www.catecheticsonline.com/CatenaAurea.php)
To: RobbyS
Santorum isn't Jeremiah, and he isn't always right . . . not even close. That effort he made to get Democrats to support him was cynical and low. The comment he made about higher education and snobbery was just STUPID. His inability to keep his damn trap shut and stay on message has been pathetic.
He is undisciplined, grim, negative, dreary, uninspiring, arrogant, self-righteous, and unattractive. He has been from the very outset. He is also unelectable and he demonstrated it last night. All he needed to do to win Michigan was to simply keep him mouth shut and not say the epically stupid things he said this week, but he just couldn't help himself.
He demonstrated exactly why he lost by 17 points in his last election. Lord knows I don't want Romney, but at this point--unless Gingrich can create some sort of comeback with a win in Georgia, which I doubt--we are going to be stuck with him. My greatest hope is that we wind up with a brokered convention, but even that is looking less and less likely.
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posted on
02/29/2012 5:35:45 AM PST
by
Sudetenland
(Anybody but Obama!!!!)
To: Sudetenland
If you think that Santorum is wrong about his remarks about higher education, then you have not looked at what higher education in the United States has become. It is absurd to say that everyone, even a majority of high school graduates should go to college, but that is what Obama has been saying.
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posted on
02/29/2012 8:41:24 AM PST
by
RobbyS
(Christus rex.)
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