Campaigning in Ohio on Saturday, Rick Santorum displayed his culture-warrior side in full force, as he harshly attacked President Obama by suggesting the president wanted to see more disabled babies aborted and accusing him of projecting his values - which Santorum claimed were not rooted in the Bible - on the Catholic Church.
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He lambasted the president's health care law requiring insurance policies to include free prenatal testing, "because free prenatal testing ends up in more abortions and therefore less care that has to be done because we cull the ranks of the disabled in our society."
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But Santorum doubled down on his attacks, accusing the president of forcing a new moral code on the Catholic church.
"The president has reached a new low in this country's history of oppressing religious freedom that we have never seen before," he said. "If he doesn't want to call his imposition of his values a theology, that's fine, but it is an imposition of his values over a church who has very clear theological reasons for opposing what the Obama administration is forcing on them."
Asked about the fact that the president is a Christian, Santorum answered: "He says he's a Christian, he's a Christian," and would not elaborate on how to balance competing ideas about contraception within the broader faith. But he was firm in painting the president as promulgating a "new moral code" that he contended was "intolerant" of the church.
Aaaaaaand -- PUNCHLINE!
"You ask a lot of questions about the social issues," he accused a reporter who asked if he would speak out on those issues during a general election race.
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Gosh-darn Lame-Stream Media, forcing Rick Santorum to spout all this religion stuff that he'd rather keep to himself. I blame Soros and his Media Matters hired goons. If it wasn't for them, Rick Santorum would never on his own say anything hard right and crazy, not to mention unpopular.
