With the emergence of Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum in addition to hot button issues like birth control in the Catholic Church, abortion and gay marriage, religion has found its way back into the political spotlight. Santorum has been known to say some outrageous things in the past to win over radical conservative crowds, but Santorum might have crossed the line even for his standards.
At a town hall even in Plano, Texas this week, Rick Santorum went on a rant about President Obama and his alleged anti-religious administration. Despite being a Christian himself, President Obama is constantly being attacked by the far right. Santorum took advantage of recent headlines and played to the religious crowd.
Rick Santorum: "When you marginalize faith in America, when you remove the pillar of God-given rights, then what’s left is the French Revolution. What’s left is the government that gives you right, what’s left are no unalienable rights, what’s left is a government that will tell you who you are, what you’ll do and when you’ll do it."
Santorum continued on and started to blast President Obama accusing him of potential attacks on anyone that has a religious belief.
Rick Santorum: "What’s left in France became the guillotine. Ladies and gentlemen, we’re a long way from that, but if we do and follow the path of President Obama and his overt hostility to faith in America, then we are headed down that road."
Rick Santorum and the radical religious right over the last few years have tried to force their religious beliefs on every American and they do it in many ways. Whether it's an attempt to stop same-sex marriage, replace scientifically backed evolution with creationism in public classrooms or to ban abortion and birth control, the religious radical right will stop at nothing in their attempt to indoctrinate the United states. The First Amendment clearly states that the United States should not be dominated by one religious belief.
The First Amendment-Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.-
In the United States, Americans across the country have the right to believe what you want, but that doesn't mean that the country has to cater towards every belief. Rick Santorum might be able to get away with dangerous rhetoric in front of a crowd of extremists, but it won't work with the rest of America.
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