Santorum: Family, Church 'Bulwarks Of Freedom In America'

[highplainsdem]

http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entries/santorum-family-church-bulwarks-of-freedom-in-america

Rick Santorum, speaking at a church in McKinney, Texas, opened his remarks by saying the institutions of family and church are the "bulwarks of freedom in America."

"Without those two institutions, we can't be free," he added.

-snip-

[Drale]

1. I would agree with him that Family is very imporant

but I'm guessing my idea of what family life is is very different from Rickyboys idea.

[SharonAnn]

30. But it's not freedom for women and children. Only men.

[Ken Burch]

37. I'd definitely say that Sly and the Family Stone were a bulwark of freedom

[handmade34]

39. ...

[kestrel91316]

2. I am single and live alone. Does this make me an enemy of freedom?

And I am non-religious. I guess I am therefore in chains.

Keep it up, Rick. Keep stumping in favor of theocracy.

[hifiguy]

4. Me too.

Never been married, live alone except for my feline roommate and I've been a convinced atheist for decades. I'm doomed, I guess.

I though it was Repuke economic policies that would spell my end. Who knew?

[AlbertCat]

9. Me three

Unsaddled with the responsibility of a family, or of trying to uphold the dogma and rules of some religion, I am just simply unable to do anything I want!

[closeupready]

16. "I guess I am therefore in chains." If you are gay, it's a no-brainer.

Since we who are gay are 'living in bondage'. I mean, for some of us, we have to be in the mood. But still ...

[kestrel91316]

24. (snort)

[KatyaR]

38. Me four....

Single, no kids, never married, have a pupster kid but that's it, most all my family is gone, too. I spend my holidays alone (and like it).

Being single is one of the main reasons I quit religion--I got sick and tired of having "family" thrown in my face every minute of the freakin' day. If you didn't have "family," you were pretty much only good enough to make the coffee and put out the cookies after church (but only with supervision). You can be single and be divorced, and/or have kids as well, and that's pretty acceptable, but be single and childless, and you're left out in the cold.

[Iliyah]

3. As a Christian

I'm very frighten by these so called religious right wingers who want to take away my "freedom" inorder to instill their non-Christian will upon me, my family and my beloved country.

[Smilo]

5. I despair when I see people supporting this American Talibanistic moron.

It is rather ironic that Santorum and his followers denounce the Taliban, yet themselves are quite envious of what the Taliban has achieved - the strictest interpretation of religious law and the continued brutality against non-followers and, of course, their complete disdain for women.

[WCGreen]

6. Oh Rickie....

Look at all he misery that is caused by people staying inside a family that is highly disfunctional....

[AlbertCat]

7. Family, Church

What about prejudice and ignorance???

and isolation?


These things keep us from being Frenchified or "old Europe", don't they?


Or something....


Maybe he meant THE Family and its church on C Street.


Empty, useless platitudes from a religious bigot

[sofa king]

8. Santorum: It's what's for breakfast.

The recipe is simple: pour boiling water over Tang and hot chocolate mix. Try it yourself!

[lastlib]

10. try spreading it on a pious-baloney gingrich! Yummmmmmy!

[Lost-in-FL]

11. Ewwwww!

[pangaia]

20. Blechhkk..

Couldn't you have given a warning.. gross photo below, something like that.. :&gt )

[oldhippydude]

25. im sure this is in jest..

for those old enough to remeber "fizzies" (early 60's tablet about the size of alka-seltzer, that turned water into soda pop).. when fizzies were dropped in chocolate milk, the resultant product tasted suprisingly like liquid tootsie pops..one of my fond boy scout memories...

[sofa king]

26. No, I really had that very cup of it this morning!

(Minus the Photoshop job, of course.) And it really does foam up into a disgusting-looking froth that is like a little love letter to Aristophanes.

Now I for one happen to like orange-and-chocolate, and studies show that when one makes one's own concoctions, one is more likely to enjoy it. So I had that going for me.

For many of you, however, the taste will likely be indistinguishable from the name. So you are warned.

[fascisthunter]

12. More Orwellian Garbage...

Sorry, but churches in general are against free-thought, very restrictive(depending on your religion) and oppressive....

[Arugula Latte]

13. Church = Opposite of freedom

Churches are oppressive institutions that subjugate and control their subjects many of them (RCC, LDS, etc.) attempt to subjugate and control everybody else.

[patrice]

22. Authentic spirituality is FREE. "Church" does NOT want you to know this.

I believe the Greek root of the word "church" is community. Originally, that would have been a much more organic, and therefore unlimited, referrent. The habitual BLASPHEMY known as "church" today seeks the power to restrict what church/community is, because it is driven by hate. There ARE exceptions of course, but fear and hate appear to be the average if you just look at what the religious critical mass has achieved in our culture.

There are (or were, in this case) people like Alan Watts, who was known to say that the only true objective of any authentic church would be to make itself obsolete.

[Dawson Leery]

31. Most certainly.

[Roland99]

14. I don't go to church. I don't feel confined

[closeupready]

15. So how many orphans has Santorum adopted?

?

[Justice wanted]

17. OH NO HE Didn't go there. OOOOHHHHH Don't get me started

Hey you little nut job the Freedoms in the first 10 bill of rights allow you to enjoy those two things you just mention!


If it wasn't for half of the Founding father's families coming here to escape religious persecution YOU wouldn't be allowed to enjoy your Religion today!

So enjoy your family and the church you want to worship BUT they are NOT the TWO institutions that give you FREEDOM

[patrice]

18. I want to know what the fuck kind of "freedom" is it that DEPENDS upon anything, especially on

something as profoundly oppressive as religion.

Jesus recognized this and THAT'S why the ChurchCoC of his time killed him.

[patrice]

19. DEPENDS? = Isn't that what those experiencing santorum require?

[pangaia]

21. The Ayatollah Santorum speaks..

[Obama3_16]

23. church is the ultimate enslaver. what are you talking about, Santorum?

[Bruce Wayne]

27. I agree with him wholeheartedly...

And that's why I think it's terrible that he wants the government to interfere in family decisions and why I think it's destructive to our society that he wants to place his church values in charge of public policy and impose them on top of my religion.

Rick Santorum: out-Talibaning the Taliban

[TBF]

29. Great response! nt

[lanlady]

28. uh, Ricky, isn't that the job of the Armed Forces?

Silly me. Here I thought we have a mighty military to defend us.

[Ken Burch]

32. The churches are a bulwark of freedom?

(...and I say this as a Christian...)

[Ken Burch]

33. Did anybody else read the thread title as

"Santorum:Family Circus "Bulwark of Freedom in America"?

[harun]

34. When your enemy is in over their head, send them more shovels.

Psycho bastard.

[Still Blue in PDX]

35. That is an incredibly stupid statement.

Unless of course he means that invoking family and church gives him the freedom to say incredibly stupid things without need of backing them up with facts, i.e., "Family! blah blah blah blah," (cue applause from rightwing crazy people). "Church! blah blah blah," (cue applause from rightwing crazy people).

Family is wonderful and church is wonderful (if you're a churchy type), but they really have more to do with commitment and responsibility than with freedom.

[EC]

36. Well, since when does the church have the right

to tell the government what to do? Are we back in the feudal days of the Pope ruling the world?

[unkachuck]

40. don't look now, but one of your 'bulwarks of freedom in America'....

....has been hurting....families have been under tremendous stress since your Republican created economic meltdown in '08....yet you and the Republican Party have done amazingly little to cooperate and help the American family cope through these hard times....

....you and the Republican Party have only chosen to wage political warfare at the expense of the American family instead of solving Americas' economic issues....

....you and the Republican Party are liars and hypocrites lacking any moral compass; you're only guided by your big-buck GPS unit that points directly to wall-street....it's time we replace those batteries....