Scary Monster!

I found this list of objections someone had to Rick Santorum, who is a candidate for the GOP nomination for President.

Let's take a look.

1. Opposing birth control
Quote: "One of the things I will talk about, that no president has talked about before, is I think the dangers of contraception in this country.... Many of the Christian faith have said, well, that's okay, contraception is okay. It's not okay. It's a license to do things in a sexual realm that is counter to how things are supposed to be." (Speaking with CaffeinatedThoughts.com, Oct. 18, 2011)

Reaction: This is "pretty basic: Rick Santorum is coming for your contraception," says Irin Carmon at Salon. "Any and all of it." Threatening to "send the condom police into America's bedrooms" is pretty bad politics: More than 99 percent of sexually active women have used some form of birth control, and "helping people get access to birth control is actually a popular issue," supported by 82 percent of Americans. But a national contraception ban is "clearly the world Santorum wants."

First of all, notice the switching of terms "contraception" and "birth control". Not all birth control is contraception. Contraception prevents the conception of a human being. Some other forms of birth control kills a human being. Secondly, Santorum is talking to Christians about morality. Nowhere does he state or imply that he's going to prevent anyone who wants to obtain contraception from getting it. This appears to be a case of Leftists thinking that unless the federal goverment (really meaning taxpayers) provides something, it doesn't exist.

2. Keeping moms at home
Quote: "In far too many families with young children, both parents are working, when, if they really took an honest look at the budget, they might find they don't both need to. ... What happened in America so that mothers and fathers who leave their children in the care of someone else — or worse yet, home alone after school between three and six in the afternoon — find themselves more affirmed by society? Here, we can thank the influence of radical feminism." (Santorum's 2005 book, It Takes a Family: Conservatism and the Common Good)

Hmmmm, I don't see anywhere in that where he said "moms" should be forced to stay home. It was some sexist thinking on the part of the Scaredy Cat that equated the idea of both parents not needing to earn income with it automatically being the mom who "stays home". Santorum was stating the truth - that it is possible for families to make it on one income so that strangers or hired help aren't the ones raising the kids.

3. Re-spinning the Crusades
Quote: "The idea that the Crusades and the fight of Christendom against Islam is somehow an aggression on our part is absolutely anti-historical. And that is what the perception is by the American Left who hates Christendom. ... What I'm talking about is onward American soldiers. What we're talking about are core American values." (South Carolina campaign stop, Feb. 22, 2011)

The fact is, the Crusades were a response to some Muslims attacking pilgrims, and as was common with war efforts in those times (and often our times) some people going along for the war did things they shouldn't have. Today, so many people say, "Ah ha! The Crusades!!!" without having any real idea of what happened and in what historical context. I highly doubt Scaredy Cat would want the kind of Islam that was being fought to spread to where he or she lives.

4. Rejecting the very idea of "Palestinians"
Quote: "All the people who live in the West Bank are Israelis, they're not Palestinians. There is no 'Palestinian.' This is Israeli land." (Campaign stop in Iowa, Nov. 18, 2011)

That is factually true. Isn't someone born and raised in Israel an Israeli? I wonder what this person would call someone born in the USA?

5. Reminding America that some view Mormonism as "a dangerous cult"
Quote: "Would the potential attraction to Mormonism by simply having a Mormon in the White House threaten traditional Christianity by leading more Americans to a church that some Christians believe misleadingly calls itself Christian, is an active missionary church, and a dangerous cult?"

He asked a question, stating a fact about what some Christians believe. So Leftists don't call Santorum's beliefs dangerous? Some certainly appear to. And what have Leftists being saying about the LDS church... hmmmmm?

6. Dissing welfare programs that "make black people's lives better"
Quote: "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." (Campaign stop in Iowa, Jan. 2, 2012)

What in the world is wrong with someone pointing out that jobs are better than welfare?

7. Bringing race into Obama's abortion views
Quote: "The question is — and this is what Barack Obama didn't want to answer — is that human life a person under the Constitution? And Barack Obama says no. Well if that person — human life is not a person, then — I find it almost remarkable for a black man to say, 'We're going to decide who are people and who are not people.'" (CNS News interview, Jan. 19, 2011)

Apparently the person concerned about this is unfamiliar with the fact that enslaved African Americans were classified as nonpersons under certain laws. They are so busy trying to equate any disagreement with Obama with racism. Because we all know that none of these Republican ever opposed white Bill Clinton's positions, right?

8. Equating gay marriage to loving your mother-in-law
Quote: "Is anyone saying same-sex couples can't love each other? I love my children. I love my friends, my brother. Heck, I even love my mother-in-law. Should we call these relationships marriage, too?" (Santorum's Philadelphia Inquirer column, May 22, 2008)

He did not equate those two things. He pointing to the fact that "love" is not a basis for our laws.

9. Comparing homosexuality to "man-on-dog" sex
Quote: "If the Supreme Court says that you have the right to consensual [gay] sex within your home, then you have the right to bigamy, you have the right to polygamy, you have the right to incest, you have the right to adultery. You have the right to anything. Does that undermine the fabric of our society? I would argue yes, it does. ... That's not to pick on homosexuality. It's not, you know, man on child, man on dog, or whatever the case may be. It is one thing." (AP interview, April 7, 2003)

Nope, comparison not made. Sorry.

So let's review. Rick Santorum...
1. Doesn't believe contraception is morally compatible with his faith. How does this impact anybody other than his wife? It doesn't.
2. Notes the fact that not every set of parents with young children that uses hired help to raise the children rather than doing it themelves needs to do this.
3. Correctly notes that Muslism agressively took over the Holy Land and attacked pilgrims.
4. Believes that people born in Isreal are Israeli.
5. Asked if having a Mormon for a President would mean more Americans joining the LDS church instead of other churches.
6. Said it is better that people work jobs than receive welfare.
7. Doesn't think it is good that some human beings are classified as nonpersons.
8. Notes that "love" is not a basis for making legal determinations.
9. Notes that marriage means one thing and not another thing.

Ooooh..... scary! Run for the hills!!!