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Santorum 2012!
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| Joss Weatherby |
| quote: | Former Pennsylvania senator Rick Santorum, who has made his conservative stance on religious and social issues one of the centerpieces of his Republican presidential campaign, today questioned the idea of a complete separation of church and state. Santorum stood by comments he made last year when he said after reading President John F. Kennedy’s famous 1960 speech about the separation of church and state, “I almost threw up.”
Santorum said his disagreement with Kennedy came from the line in Kennedy’s speech that read, “I believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute.”
“I don’t believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute,” Santorum said today on ABC’s “This Week.’’ “The idea that the church should have no influence or no involvement in the operation of the state is absolutely antithetical of the objectives and vision of our country.” |
http://www.boston.com/Boston/politi...kwvJ/index.html
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| Lira |
But wait, there's more!
(I don't know if it's possible to embed starting from a specific point, so here's the link instead) |
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| Vector A |
| quote: | Originally posted by Joss Weatherby
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Fixed. |
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| Joss Weatherby |
| quote: | Originally posted by Vector A
Fixed. |
Yea pretty much. Do they have the opposite of mail order brides where you pay them to move to their Eastern European country and marry them? Cause thats starting to sound like a good plan. |
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| Lira |
Shouldn't it read "I don't want them to live in this world any more"? :p
This is why I tend to shun certainty and people who believe the world should be their way: they're sure they're right and the way they think is "common sense", which should be followed by all rational beings. It's sad because, in their case, this misguided confidence most likely stems from an overall ignorance of everything but a few guidelines they vehemently adhere to... and this is always a recipe for disaster. |
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| EddieZilker |
But why not double the crazy for the same low, low price?!
| quote: | The childbirth in 1996 was a source of terrible heartbreak -- the couple were told by doctors early in the pregnancy that the baby Karen was carrying had a fatal defect and would survive only for a short time outside the womb. According to Karen Santorum's book, ''Letters to Gabriel: The True Story of Gabriel Michael Santorum,'' she later developed a life-threatening intrauterine infection and a fever that reached nearly 105 degrees. She went into labor when she was 20 weeks pregnant. After resisting at first, she allowed doctors to give her the drug Pitocin to speed the birth. Gabriel lived just two hours.
What happened after the death is a kind of snapshot of a cultural divide. Some would find it discomforting, strange, even ghoulish -- others brave and deeply spiritual. Rick and Karen Santorum would not let the morgue take the corpse of their newborn; they slept that night in the hospital with their lifeless baby between them. The next day, they took him home. ''Your siblings could not have been more excited about you!'' Karen writes in the book, which takes the form of letters to Gabriel, mostly while he is in utero. ''Elizabeth and Johnny held you with so much love and tenderness. Elizabeth proudly announced to everyone as she cuddled you, 'This is my baby brother, Gabriel; he is an angel.' '' |
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/22/m...&pagewanted=all |
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| Lira |
| They did what?! :eek: |
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| Vector A |
| They slept in a hospital with a dead, half-developed fetus between them. Then wrote a book about it. |
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| enydo |
In a year you will not be hearing his name, and you probably never will again.
I also love how he keeps making comments about our "nation's vision". You mean your subscription to a certain bat category of Christianity, right?
Stop imposing your dogma on everyone you gigantic piece of . |
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| EddieZilker |
| quote: | Originally posted by Vector A
They slept in a hospital with a dead, half-developed fetus between them. Then, they took it home, let their children hold and sing to it, and then wrote a book about it. |
Fixed, for a rather visceral accuracy. |
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| enydo |
Seriously though, this guy is alienating people so hard he has absolutely no chance of winning the general election. In the process he also seems to be shoving the rest of the GOP's candidates so far right that Obama could probably scoop up the central-right vote with relative ease.
If you listen to Republican pundits blather on news networks, they are all terrified. |
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