The Problem with Rick Santorum’s Holy War
We have been here before. In 1908, the Unitarian William Howard Taft ran against the evangelical William Jennings Bryan. Bryan supporters attacked Taft’s faith; that year a Pentecostal newspaper wrote: “Think of the United States with a President who does not believe that Jesus Christ was the Son of God, but looks upon our immaculate Savior as a … low, cunning imposter!”
Rick Santorum seemed to be working in the Bryan tradition on Feb. 18 when the GOP presidential candidate said that President Obama adheres to “some phony theology. Not a theology based on the Bible. A different theology.”
Asked about the comments on CBS’s Face the Nation, Santorum dissented from the more extreme interpretation of his remarks — only to go on to raise more questions than he answered. In doing so, Santorum may please parts of the deeply conservative base of his party but at a high price: that of politicizing religion in a decidedly un-American way. By raising Obama’s “theology,” Santorum risks reviving implicit religious tests for office.
(Source: america-wakiewakie)
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