{"id":5057,"date":"2012-02-28T09:55:43","date_gmt":"2012-02-28T15:55:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/tonyjones\/?p=5057"},"modified":"2015-03-13T16:52:34","modified_gmt":"2015-03-13T21:52:34","slug":"rick-santorum-doesnt-think-youre-a-christian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/tonyjones\/2012\/02\/28\/rick-santorum-doesnt-think-youre-a-christian\/","title":{"rendered":"Rick Santorum Doesn’t Think You’re a Christian"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

The Republican candidate for POTUS, who thinks that our president follows and unbiblical theology, thinks that mainliners are not ChristianL<\/p>\n

We all know that this country was founded on a Judeo-Christian ethic but the Judeo-Christian ethic was a Protestant Judeo-Christian ethic, sure the Catholics had some influence, but this was a Protestant country and the Protestant ethic, mainstream, mainline Protestantism, and of course we look at the shape of mainline Protestantism in this country and it is in shambles, it is gone from the world of Christianity as I see it<\/strong>. [via Santorum Excommunicates 45 Million Christians<\/a>]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Further, he doesn\u2019t believe in a strict separation of church and state:<\/p>\n

Santorum also reiterated his statement that a 1960 speech by John F. Kennedy, meant to ease concerns about the then-Democratic presidential candidate\u2019s Catholic faith, made him want to \u201cthrow up.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t believe in an America where separation of church and state is absolute,\u201d he said. [via LA Times<\/a>]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Here\u2019s the thing: the rights afforded us by the First Amendment are sacrosanct, at least in a non-religious sense. But, as a religious person, I abdicate some of my rights when I submit to living in a country with laws. If my religion dictates that I smoke weed, or that I sacrifice cats, I don\u2019t get to do that. My religious rights are not absolute \u2014 they are <\/span>relative<\/em>, because they are judged in the relative weight with the good for society.<\/p>\n

But neither are First Amendment rights absolute. You don\u2019t get to shout \u201cFire!\u201d in a crowded theater, and you don\u2019t get to post kiddie porn on the internet. Again, the good of the society trumps your individual rights.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s why Santorum\u2019s views on contraception, for instance, are reckless. He may be personally\u00a0appalled\u00a0that men and women use contraceptives, and he can use his bully pulpit to promote those views. But to impose those personal views on the rest of us is the equivalent to Mitt Romney forcing us all to wear sacred undergarments, or Barack Obama making women wear burkas. \ud83d\ude09<\/span><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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