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Rick Santorum tells boy not to use pink bowling ball
Rick Santorum tells boy not to use pink bowling ball
Washington– At a campaign event at a bowling alley in Wisconsin today, GOP presidential hopeful Rick Santorum told a boy who reached for a pink bowling ball: “You’re not gonna use the pink ball….
Well gee whiz! While I’m out shopping for hoodies today, I’ll have to pick up a pink bowling ball or two.
(via hairtrending)
If you haven’t cursed out a New York Times reporter during the course of a campaign, you’re not really a real Republican, is the way I look at it.
Rick Santorum (via HuffPo)
Wow. That Mr. Santorum is one classy guy. Way to witness to the faith, sir!
*mumbles something about praying and immortal souls*
(Source: arig)
Santorum Tells Sick Kid Not To Complain About $1 Million Drug Costs Because People Pay $900 For An IPad | ThinkProgress
While campaigning yesterday in Woodland Park, Colorado, GOP contender Rick Santorum told a sick child and his mother that they shouldn’t complain about the exorbitant cost of his medication because some people spend $900 on iPads. He appeared unmoved by the plight of the family, staunchly defending drug companies’ right to charge whatever they want.
The candidate also said that the parent and childunjustly felt entitled to get life-saving care at an affordable rate:
GOP contender Rick Santorum had a heated exchange with a mother and her sick young son Wednesday, arguing that drug companies were entitled to charge whatever the market demanded for life-saving therapies.[…]
“People have no problem paying $900 for an iPad,” Santorum said, “but paying $900 for a drug they have a problem with — it keeps you alive. Why? Because you’ve been conditioned to think health care is something you can get without having to pay for it.”
The mother said the boy was on the drug Abilify, used to treat schizophrenia, and that, on paper, its costs would exceed $1 million each year.
Santorum said drugs take years to develop and cost millions of dollars to produce, and manufacturers need to turn a profit or they would stop developing new drugs.
Santorum proceeded to lecture the mother and suggest she should be grateful to the drug companies for saving her son’s life. “He’s alive today because drug companies provide care,” Santorum said. “And if they didn’t think they could make money providing that drug, that drug wouldn’t be here.” He also claimed it would “freeze innovation” if pharmaceutical companies were required to offer their drugs at a reasonable price.
Dear Mr. Santorum:
Undercover Nun is praying for your immortal soul. God knows, you need it.
In Christ’s love,
Me
(Source: silas216)
Rick Santorum: The Antithesis of Everything Jesus Taught
Every politician eventually gets stuck with a label from their opponents and supporters that is not always completely accurate. Often, it is best to let the politician’s record speak to whether or not they are, for example, Liberal or conservative and in this technological age, it is relatively simple to gather up-to-the-minute press releases and candidate statements to discern where a politician or candidate stands to attribute the appropriate label. It is problematic, though, for a political candidate to label themselves unless they have integrity to their cause and own a record that verifies their self-description perfectly. Rick Santorum describes himself as a compassionate conservative and although there is absolutely no doubt the man is a conservative of the first order, there is certainly nothing compassionate about him. … A more apropos label for Santorum is a hateful conservative that aligns him with the rest of the Republicans; except the former Pennsylvania senator says in public what other Republicans keep under their hats. …
Go read the whole piece: it’s a doozy, even if the author used inferred when the correct word is implied. While I’m praying for Mr. Santorum’s immortal soul, I’ll pray for the author’s as well.
I don’t want to make black people’s lives better by giving them somebody else’s money; I want to give them the opportunity to go out and earn the money.
Rick Santorum, outrageously revealing his racism as he discusses reform of so-called “entitlement” programs.
As you might expect, the NAACP objected to this:
NAACP President and CEO Benjamin Todd Jealous said in a statement Wednesday that “Santorum’s targeting of African Americans is inaccurate and outrageous, and lifts up old race-based stereotypes about public assistance.”
Jealous pointed out that federal benefits are determined by income level, not race. In Iowa, for instance, 9 percent of food stamp recipients are black and 84 percent are white. Overall, 91 percent of Iowa residents are white, and nearly 3 percent are black.
Mister Santorum, Undercover Nun is praying for your immortal soul.
(Source: cbsnews.com)
When has it ever NOT been time for Christians to be radically inclusive?
This column by Becky Garrison of the Washington Post is a quick, excellent read.
Recently, I heard sex columnist Dan Savage speak at Union Theological Seminary as part of “Pro-Queer Life,” a series of conferences on sexual diversity and the Catholic Church. I wish those godly leaders who vilify Dan Savage could turn down the white noise and listen to stories about his childhood faith. They would discover a devout boy who found he could no longer believe in a church that did not accept him after he decided to live out his life authentically as an openly gay man. After hearing Savage speak about the need to combat the epidemic of LGBT suicides, maybe they would watch at least a few of the videos gathered as part of the It Gets Better project. Perhaps seeing LGBT folks in person instead of yelling at them from the picket lines or in cyberspace might somehow open their heart just a little bit until like the Grinch, their love just explodes.
I’m particularly fond of Mr. Savage’s response, when asked about the ongoing feud between Rick Santorum and himself:
“I love the idea that I’m “bullying” Rick Santorum. All he wants to do is write anti-gay bigotry into the Constitution to prevent me from being at my partner’s bedside in a medical emergency, get in a time machine to prevent me from being able to adopt my son, reinstate Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell—literally destroy my life. I made a joke at his expense. But I’m the bad guy and he’s the victim. All he wants to do is beat us to death. How dare we tease him?”
(emphasis mine)
But then, I was astonished and disappointed at Ms. Garrison’s wording here:
[Catholic Online] refused to recognize a moral and legal equivalency between homosexual partnerships and authentic marriage.
Tell me, Ms. Garrison, how do you define authentic marriage? This wasn’t in quotation marks, so these are your words. What prevents a monogamous, committed, covenanted union from being an authentic marriage? You talk about the silence that kills, but you used words that kill right here. By contrasting homosexual partnerships and authentic marriage, you’ve created two classes, only one of which is the real deal.
So yeah, it’s long past time that Christians extended respect and dignity to our LGBTQ brothers and sisters, who are beloved children of God. It is a grave corporate sin that we force people to live in dishonesty and fear, because it is not safe for them to live openly and honestly.
May God have mercy on our souls.
Welcome to the "Abortion Culture"!
Did you know that the US has an Abortion Culture? According to the esteemed Mr. Santorum, we do. I’ll admit that, as a religious Sister, Undercover Nun isn’t always hip and with it. Maybe this weekend, I’ll head down to the Oceanfront and listen to the young people. I’m sure I’ll hear plenty of talk about abortions. You know, young men drinking beer while bragging about how big the fetus was, young women comparing notes over drinks on how many abortions they’ve had, and the poor token virgie at the end of the table feeling left out because she’s never even had sex yet. All she can share is the number of abortions her mother’s had, but you know we old ladies are too polite, refined, and genteel to talk about all of our abortions. We wouldn’t want to brag. That would be gauche.
What do you think? Will I see the outcome I’m expecting here? No? But Mister Santorum couldn’t possibly be wrong, could he? He’s a Good Catholic Boy, and he’s always acted with perfect ethics and morals, right?
No?
So when he says that Social Security is in jeopardy because “there aren’t enough workers to support retirees. He blamed that on what he called the nation’s abortion culture. He says that culture, coupled with policies that do not support families, deny America what it needs — more people” — when he says this, he would be misguided and mistaken.
He’s also disingenuous and hypocritical, because if America really needs more people, then he should be all for opening up our borders and welcoming any immigrant who wants to come to us. Not closing our borders, building walls, and denying amnesty to people who have lived here for years, if not decades. I wonder what the esteemed former Senator would say if pressed on this. It’s not so much that America needs just any people. We need more man-woman-married, white, good-looking, Roman Catholic, conservative people. You know, just like him, so we could have a Stepford Culture rather than an Abortion Culture.
No matter that using legislation to prohibit abortion kills women. Mister Santorum says himself that women aren’t worth as much as men: What does the average second-earner in the family make? Twenty-five percent of the first earner. Obviously, it takes four women to get one man. Four good, white, married, pretty, conservative, Roman Catholic women. If those women are sinful, lustful women who end up in abortion clinics, I’m sure his calculus assigns far less value to them. You know, maybe 10 to the man, or an even dozen. Not that he’d ever say this directly, of course. He knows lots of women. He employs plenty of women. Some of his best friends are women. He even married a woman, for heaven’s sake!
Undercover Nun is as convinced that he’s not a misogynist, as I am convinced that he’s not a homophobe. As offended as I am, though, I’m a good Christian woman. Therefore, I would never do something like quote former Nebraska Senator Bob Kerrey, who once remarked that Santorum must be Latin for a**hole. Because that wouldn’t be Christlike love for a fellow child of God.
Mister Rick Santorum, Undercover Nun continues to pray for your immortal soul. God knows, you need it.
Glenn Beck for President?
Gingrich, Santorum Placed on Leave From Fox News
Fox News contributors Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum have been put on leave from the cable news channel for 60 days, effective Wednesday, as the two contemplate whether they will run for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination.
![Here’s a sampler of quotes from Rick Santorum, whose incoherent and ignorant speech today is frightening and dangerous.
The American Left hates Christendom. They hate Western civilization.
Really, Mr. Santorum? Okay, first, the era of Christendom has passed. It’s over now, and has been for quite a while. Just so we can get that part out of the way. Regardless, however, there are a great many faithful Christians on the Left, and I promise you, we do not hate Christianity. I love the US, and I have a great appreciation for the incredible marvels of Western civilization. I am also deeply conflicted about those incredible marvels coming to us on the backs of the poor, the homeless, the starving, the vulnerable, the prisoners, and the children of less-developed nations. In America, we consume far more of the world’s resources than is fair, and we don’t have the right to do this.
No sir, most of us on the Left do not hate Christendom or Western civilization. Rather, we refuse to capitulate to the neo-conservative images of the Body of Christ and of the world that you and others like you force upon us.
The idea that the Crusades and the fight of Christendom against Islam is somehow an aggression on our part is absolutely anti-historical.
Undercover Nun is astonished that any well-educated American who works in Congress could possibly say something this colossally ignorant. I’m shocked and appalled that a professed Roman Catholic could have the unmitigated gall to say this.
The Crusades were precisely aggressive and violent attacks on Islam. The history of the Church, from its earliest days as described in Acts of the Apostles and the New Testament epistles, show a body that was conflicted from the beginning. It didn’t take long for these conflicts to escalate into violence and bloodshed. The Roman Church’s response to heresy was to ruthlessly stamp it out by literally going into battle and physically killing the proponents of any idea or doctrine that Church authorities disapproved of. Islam was originally seen as exactly this: a new heresy. It was called “the Mohammedan heresy” and “the Musselman heresy.” Francis of Assisi pleaded with the Pope to refrain from taking war to Muslims, just as his contemporary Dominic de Guzman pleaded for the same mercy for the Cathars in the Languedoc region of France. The Church hierarchy paid little heed to either, and ruthlessly attempted to wipe out Muslims and Albigensiens through warfare.
No, sir, your bald-faced lie is anti-historical. It is so ignorant that it borders on stupidity. And for the record, willful ignorance is stupidity.
What I’m talking about is onward American soldiers. What we’re talking about are core American values. ‘All men are created equal’ — that’s a Christian value, but it’s an American value.
While the words All persons are created equal do represent both a Christian value and an American value, these are two very different values. To the Christian, this means that all persons are equally eligible for God’s grace, love, and forgiveness. The value here is shown in the parable of the prodigal son, for example, and the parable of the workers in the vineyard. In God’s eyes, each of us is unique and precious and wonderful.
The American value is a bit different, especially placed within its own context. It took a great deal of debate to include this line in the Declaration of Independence, as you’ve quoted it. In context, the writers were not saying that all persons are equal, regardless of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, wealth, family background, or which side of the sheets they were born on. No, when placed in its context, all men are created equal actually meant all white Protestant males who own property are created equal. More importantly, this statement refers to equality under the law, rather than the scandalous equality of God’s grace.
The point I was trying to make was that the national faith, the national ideal, is rooted in the Christian ideal — in the Judeo-Christian concept of the person.
Mr. Santorum, if by this you mean to say that the 20th- and 21st-century American concept of the person is based on the Judeo-Christian concept of the person, then you are completely wrong. Today’s America is all about the individual. It’s about getting what I want, what I need, when I want it, regardless of the needs of anyone else.
There is nothing — not one thing — in the entirety of scripture that supports this concept of the individual person. No, both Judaism and Christianity center around the relationship. Neither faith is about any person, and neither faith can be practiced individually. The Judeo-Christian concept of the person paints a picture of a web of relationships, connections to all the people around us with whom we are interdependent.
The most dangerous place for an African-American in this country is in the womb. [He likened abortion to slavery, saying that Roe v. Wade treated unborn children as property, without rights — just has black people had been defined years before under slavery.]
You know what else, Mr. Santorum? The most dangerous condition for any woman to be in is pregnancy. Or did you not know how the risk of murder rises dramatically for a woman when she is pregnant? We may not die in childbirth so often in today’s America, but we still die in pregnancy.
Have you ever wondered why the abortion rate is higher among African-American women? In general, black women have significantly less wealth and income than white women. They often lack access to proper medical care and treatment. They lack access to (and education about) birth control that so many of us take for granted. They know they don’t have the wealth and income to support a child. And they are disproportionately abused and raped, compared to white women. So how about we take a look at the causes, and make some changes there, before we try to prohibit abortion.
Since you profess to be a Roman Catholic, sir, I invite you to take another look at the Corporal Works of Mercy. Surely you’re familiar with them.
Feed the hungry. (Including poor black women)
Give drink to the thirsty. (Including that homeless guy you refused to give a dollar to, because he’d only spend it on booze)
Give shelter to the homeless. (And don’t arrest and imprison them for sleeping outdoors)
Clothe the naked. (Making sure that Americans have proper protection from the elements)
Tend to the sick. (And make sure that all sick Americans have equal access to proper health care)
Visit the prisoners. (Being sure to take note that paying keen attention to the rest of the Corporal Works of Mercy actually reduces the number of prisoners)
Bury the dead. (With the same dignity and respect they should have in life)
Mister Rick Santorum, Undercover Nun is praying for your soul. I’m also praying for every social studies and history teacher you ever had, because their feelings of shame and humiliation at your craven ignorance must be overwhelming.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lh49ao76js1qc9m1oo1_500.jpg)
Here’s a sampler of quotes from Rick Santorum, whose incoherent and ignorant speech today is frightening and dangerous.
The American Left hates Christendom. They hate Western civilization.
Really, Mr. Santorum? Okay, first, the era of Christendom has passed. It’s over now, and has been for quite a while. Just so we can get that part out of the way. Regardless, however, there are a great many faithful Christians on the Left, and I promise you, we do not hate Christianity. I love the US, and I have a great appreciation for the incredible marvels of Western civilization. I am also deeply conflicted about those incredible marvels coming to us on the backs of the poor, the homeless, the starving, the vulnerable, the prisoners, and the children of less-developed nations. In America, we consume far more of the world’s resources than is fair, and we don’t have the right to do this.
No sir, most of us on the Left do not hate Christendom or Western civilization. Rather, we refuse to capitulate to the neo-conservative images of the Body of Christ and of the world that you and others like you force upon us.
The idea that the Crusades and the fight of Christendom against Islam is somehow an aggression on our part is absolutely anti-historical.
Undercover Nun is astonished that any well-educated American who works in Congress could possibly say something this colossally ignorant. I’m shocked and appalled that a professed Roman Catholic could have the unmitigated gall to say this.
The Crusades were precisely aggressive and violent attacks on Islam. The history of the Church, from its earliest days as described in Acts of the Apostles and the New Testament epistles, show a body that was conflicted from the beginning. It didn’t take long for these conflicts to escalate into violence and bloodshed. The Roman Church’s response to heresy was to ruthlessly stamp it out by literally going into battle and physically killing the proponents of any idea or doctrine that Church authorities disapproved of. Islam was originally seen as exactly this: a new heresy. It was called “the Mohammedan heresy” and “the Musselman heresy.” Francis of Assisi pleaded with the Pope to refrain from taking war to Muslims, just as his contemporary Dominic de Guzman pleaded for the same mercy for the Cathars in the Languedoc region of France. The Church hierarchy paid little heed to either, and ruthlessly attempted to wipe out Muslims and Albigensiens through warfare.
No, sir, your bald-faced lie is anti-historical. It is so ignorant that it borders on stupidity. And for the record, willful ignorance is stupidity.
What I’m talking about is onward American soldiers. What we’re talking about are core American values. ‘All men are created equal’ — that’s a Christian value, but it’s an American value.
While the words All persons are created equal do represent both a Christian value and an American value, these are two very different values. To the Christian, this means that all persons are equally eligible for God’s grace, love, and forgiveness. The value here is shown in the parable of the prodigal son, for example, and the parable of the workers in the vineyard. In God’s eyes, each of us is unique and precious and wonderful.
The American value is a bit different, especially placed within its own context. It took a great deal of debate to include this line in the Declaration of Independence, as you’ve quoted it. In context, the writers were not saying that all persons are equal, regardless of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, wealth, family background, or which side of the sheets they were born on. No, when placed in its context, all men are created equal actually meant all white Protestant males who own property are created equal. More importantly, this statement refers to equality under the law, rather than the scandalous equality of God’s grace.
The point I was trying to make was that the national faith, the national ideal, is rooted in the Christian ideal — in the Judeo-Christian concept of the person.
Mr. Santorum, if by this you mean to say that the 20th- and 21st-century American concept of the person is based on the Judeo-Christian concept of the person, then you are completely wrong. Today’s America is all about the individual. It’s about getting what I want, what I need, when I want it, regardless of the needs of anyone else.
There is nothing — not one thing — in the entirety of scripture that supports this concept of the individual person. No, both Judaism and Christianity center around the relationship. Neither faith is about any person, and neither faith can be practiced individually. The Judeo-Christian concept of the person paints a picture of a web of relationships, connections to all the people around us with whom we are interdependent.
The most dangerous place for an African-American in this country is in the womb. [He likened abortion to slavery, saying that Roe v. Wade treated unborn children as property, without rights — just has black people had been defined years before under slavery.]
You know what else, Mr. Santorum? The most dangerous condition for any woman to be in is pregnancy. Or did you not know how the risk of murder rises dramatically for a woman when she is pregnant? We may not die in childbirth so often in today’s America, but we still die in pregnancy.
Have you ever wondered why the abortion rate is higher among African-American women? In general, black women have significantly less wealth and income than white women. They often lack access to proper medical care and treatment. They lack access to (and education about) birth control that so many of us take for granted. They know they don’t have the wealth and income to support a child. And they are disproportionately abused and raped, compared to white women. So how about we take a look at the causes, and make some changes there, before we try to prohibit abortion.
Since you profess to be a Roman Catholic, sir, I invite you to take another look at the Corporal Works of Mercy. Surely you’re familiar with them.
- Feed the hungry. (Including poor black women)
- Give drink to the thirsty. (Including that homeless guy you refused to give a dollar to, because he’d only spend it on booze)
- Give shelter to the homeless. (And don’t arrest and imprison them for sleeping outdoors)
- Clothe the naked. (Making sure that Americans have proper protection from the elements)
- Tend to the sick. (And make sure that all sick Americans have equal access to proper health care)
- Visit the prisoners. (Being sure to take note that paying keen attention to the rest of the Corporal Works of Mercy actually reduces the number of prisoners)
- Bury the dead. (With the same dignity and respect they should have in life)
Mister Rick Santorum, Undercover Nun is praying for your soul. I’m also praying for every social studies and history teacher you ever had, because their feelings of shame and humiliation at your craven ignorance must be overwhelming.
(Source: goupstate.com)
