Rick Santorum: Let’s Call Secularism a Religion So It Can Be Banned From The Classroom

[big_dog]

Former Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum railed against the exclusion of conservative Christianity from education in an interview with American Family Association radio Tuesday, Right Wing Watch reported. “I think we should start calling secularism a religion,” Santorum told a grinning Fischer. “Because if we did, then we could ban that, too, because that’s what they’ve done: they’ve hidden behind the fact that the absence of religion is not a religion of itself.”

The former Pennsylvania senator, who partnered with Fischer’s organization in the making of his newest “docudrama,” argued that secularism has “moral teachers” that should classify it as a religion. “The idea that, if you take religion out of the public square, you take the Bible out of the classroom, that that’s neutral. Well no, that’s not neutral,” Santorum argued. “It’s a different worldview.”

According to Think Progress, Santorum has said that the film, One Generation Away, would attract protests from secularists, saying, “I’m a dog whistle to the left,” and calling it an opportunity to further his call to prioritize the Bible in school curriculums. http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/09/09/rick-santorum-lets-call-secularism-a-religion-so-it-can-be-banned-from-the-classroom/

[hobbit709]

1. That level of stupid and yet he remembers how to breathe.

[Control-Z]

3. Lololol!

That cracked me up. Not sure why I found it to be so funny. But, Santorum? The fact that he has enough self esteemed left to even speak in public is amazing to me.

[beam me up scottie]

13. Proof that so called intelligent design is anything but

[yourout]

2. Hey Rick......forcing schools to teach christianity would be different than Islamist extremist how?

Public school is for teaching facts not religion.

[beam me up scottie]

4. Wtf?

He directly contradicts himself with this line:

I think we should start calling secularism a religion," Santorum told a grinning Fischer. "Because if we did, then we could ban that, too, because that’s what they’ve done: they’ve hidden behind the fact that the absence of religion is not a religion of itself."

Yes, dumbass, it is indeed a fact that the absence of religion is not a religion.



Thank you Right Wing Watch for getting down in the sewer where these rats live and reporting on them so we don't have to.

[Journeyman]

5. “How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg?" asked Abraham Lincoln . . .

“How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.”

[JHB]

11. +1 with a lot of zeros behind it

[hifiguy]

6. Let's recognize Rick the Prick as an ignorant asshole

and ignore him.

Calling a cat a cow doesn't make it so, you pig-ignorant SOB.

[rustydog]

7. Keep it up "Man on Dog" Santorum

This is not about YOU you self-inflated, self-aggrandizing fool. You can't decide what a religion is, just like I can't decide who I'll be seated next to in Hell for all eternity. I certainly hope it is "Man on Dog sex" Santorum! Listening to you whine for all eternity because you THOUGHT God hated fags and no, you weren't projecting when you mentioned man on dog sex in regards to gays!

[Initech]

8. In the interest of good taste I will refrain from making a Santorum joke.

But Bryan Fischer deserves to step in a massive pile of it.

[Cali_Democrat]

9. Uh...Wuh???

[eridani]

10. Yes, and let's call baldness a hair style n/t

[daschess1987]

12. They can indoctrinate their own kids to believe whatever they want outside of school.

They can either send them to religious schools or homeschool them, but they have no right to cram their superstitious nonsense down everybody else's throats in public schools. *note to DU Christians: by "superstitious nonsense," I'm talking about right-wing dominionism and mean no disrespect to you*

[IcyPeas]

14. santorum quote: "smart people will never be on our side"

remember he said this?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/15/rick-santorum-smart-peopl_n_1886684.html

"We will never have the media on our side, ever, in this country," Santorum said, according to BuzzFeed and a video posted by Right Wing Watch, available above. "We will never have the elite, smart people on our side, because they believe they should have the power to tell you what to do."

"The basic premise of America and American values will always be sustained through two institutions -- the church and the family," the former Pennsylvania senator added.