LifeSiteNews is reporting,
Both the family and the Church stand in the way of socialism’s triumph, former US Senator Rick Santorum told Christians gathered for the 17th International Week of Prayer and Fasting last week. The pro-life champion warned attendees, however, that both institutions are under heavy attack from Obama-administration policies.
“We are under a great assault with this President and this Congress on the issue of life. We are under a great assault, maybe even greater assault, on the foundational issue of the family,” Santorum told those gathered for the October 11 dinner at the Omni Shoreham Hotel.
Santorum said that the left’s policies, especially those policies aggressively set forward by the Obama administration, target the family and Christian churches for “destruction,” because these institutions provide local social networks and support for individuals that take away the need for total dependence on central government. To eliminate these social networks means the triumph of socialism, and that means attacking marriage and Christian churches.
“There will be an assault on the institution of marriage,” Santorum promised his audience. “Why? Because the left knows that they can’t really have government come in and take control of everything unless they destroy the family. Unless you destroy the family and destroy the Church they cannot ultimately be successful in getting socialism to be accepted in this country and that’s what their objective is.”
Santorum asked everyone to pray in these times for those in public office, for those discerning whether to run for office in 2010, as well as “for those who are out protesting and understand that there is something foundationally wrong with what’s been going on here.”
via Santorum: The Triumph of Socialism in U.S. Requires Destruction of Family and Church.
Uh, no Rick, that’s not what is happening. I wonder if I should file this under hate speech? Fear mongering? Fantasy Island?
Does Rick really think this, or is part of a political speech? Doesn’t it do harm to the move for civility?
Oh wait…I see his point now….
October 23rd, 2009 8:31 am
“Unless you destroy the family and destroy the Church they cannot ultimately be successful in getting socialism to be accepted in this country and that’s what their objective is.”
I think fear-mongering bunk would be the right category. The family doesn’t have a thing to do with Socialism. As for destroying the Church, I think that capitalism has been doing a great job of that, already!
Other than that, this is an attempt to hit on all of the buzzwords.
October 23rd, 2009 10:11 am
Loaded code words.
His idol, the nuclear family, has little to do with Scripture’s vision of the extended family, or at least my interpretation of scripture. I really have been thinking on the definition of family. Maybe I should post on it.
October 24th, 2009 5:40 pm
Rick Santorum is one of the biggest fear mongers around. It is amazing to see how guys like him on the far right reduce everything to some great persecution of Christians by the supposedly Godless, secularist and leftist Obama administration. Wickle nails it about Capitalism having already done the job. I would put this in a dual category called “fantasy fiction fear mongering”
October 24th, 2009 7:04 pm
Santorum, I believe, is the Newt of the modern age, and could actually provide a candidate for the GOP, and not just in a state election. He bases his political scheme on fear and hate, and is one of the most extreme Christian nationistias around.
October 24th, 2009 7:47 pm
I agree, except that he can’t even win in his home state….I think we call him a loser.
October 24th, 2009 8:01 pm
Nixon lost before, so did Reagan.
Can you imagine a Santorum’s presidency? There – think about that for Halloween.