{"id":2244,"date":"2012-03-27T12:27:00","date_gmt":"2012-03-27T12:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/rhetoricraceandreligion\/2012\/03\/get-out-santorum-perkins-and-the-religious-rights-vision-of-america.html"},"modified":"2012-03-27T12:27:00","modified_gmt":"2012-03-27T12:27:00","slug":"get-out-santorum-perkins-and-the-religious-rights-vision-of-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/rhetoricraceandreligion\/2012\/03\/get-out-santorum-perkins-and-the-religious-rights-vision-of-america.html","title":{"rendered":"“Get Out!” Santorum, Perkins and the Religious Right’s Vision of America"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

by Peter Montgomery<\/p>\n

March 19 was a lousy day for Rick Santorum\u2019s campaign. Reporters repeatedly questioned him about his Sunday evening appearance at Tony Perkins\u2019 home church, where, as People For the American Way\u2019s Right Wing Watch blog reported, Santorum applauded a pastor who screamed that America was a Christian nation and those who didn\u2019t like it should \u201cGet out.\u201d It was America\u2019s Christian faith that made it a great nation, Terry said, and America\u2019s biggest problem is that we now fear men more than we fear God.<\/p>\n

Santorum\u2019s awkward response when questioned about Terry\u2019s comments was that he wasn\u2019t really listening all that closely to the pastor introducing him, and didn\u2019t agree with all of his comments. By the end of the day, some journalists were moving on to Santorum\u2019s foot-in-mouth assertion that the economy wasn\u2019t the main issue in the campaign and that he wasn\u2019t worried about the unemployment rate.<\/p>\n

While the media may understandably focus on Santorum\u2019s garbled economic message, his Sunday evening appearance is worth a longer look \u2014 for what it tells us about Santorum and the Religious Right movement that is propelling his campaign.
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