Former Republican U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania
How difficult is it to remember what state you work in and who your current employer is? My guess is that nearly everyone in this country knows the answer to these two simple questions, but you can add Scott Brown to the list of individuals who has difficulty answering them.
Rick Santorum News & Opinion Articles |  | Sun Oct 27, 2013 | huffingtonpost.com
Former senator and Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum (R-Pa.) criticized Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) for the p... |
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Greenwell Springs Baptist Church pastor Dennis Terry introduced presidential candidate Rick Santorum in Baton Rouge, Lo... |
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Rick Santorum's foundation raised $2.58 million, with only 39 percent of that donated directly to groups helping the ne... |
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Fox News Radio host and political contributor Alan Colmes found himself in sticky territory on Monday, after criticizin... |
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GOP U.S. presidential hopeful Rick Santorum said John McCain, tortured as a prisoner of war, "doesn't understand how en... |
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Dave Pederson's take on why Santorum truly is the worst GOP candidate running and just how Santorum platforms his entir... |
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Chuck Todd weighs in on Santorum's college comment explaining that Santorum is playing on the Glenn Beck paranoia. |
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Santorum first came to Congress from western Pennsylvania in 1990 after waging a grass-roots campaign against an oppone... |
The Campaign Legal Center and Democracy 21 has filed a legal complaint with the FEC accusing former Senator and Republican Presidential hopeful Rick Santorum of illegally funneling a $1 million dollar donation from an energy executive to a Super PAC run by the former Senator's staff. While it is within the law to ask a donor to give money to a certain Super PAC, it is illegal to solicit a contribution above the legal limit of $5,000. In November 2004, a controversy developed over education costs for Santorum's children. Santorum's legal address is in Penn Hills, Pennsylvania, a suburb of Pittsburgh. But as a Senator, he lives at his home in Leesburg, Virginia, near Washington, D.C. (Leesburg is located about one hour's drive west of Washington, D.C., and about 90 minutes' drive south of the Pennsylvania border). Santorum's five older children received education through the Western Pennsylvania Cyber Charter School with 80 percent of tuition costs paid by the Penn Hills School District. At a meeting in November 2004, the Penn Hills School District announced that it did not believe Santorum met the qualifications for residency status since he and his family spend most of the year in Virginia. The Santorum controversy arose over Republican former U.S. Senator Rick Santorum's statements about homosexuality and the right to privacy. In an interview with the Associated Press taped on April 7, 2003,and published April 20, 2003, Santorum stated that he believed mutually consenting adults do not have a constitutional right to privacy with respect to sexual acts. Santorum described the ability to regulate consensual homosexual acts as comparable to the states' ability to regulate other consensual and non-consensual sexual behavior, such as adultery, polygamy, child molestation, incest, sodomy, and bestiality, whose decriminalization he believed would threaten society and the family, as they are not monogamous and heterosexual.
“Take care of the people who can vote and people who can’t vote, get rid of them as quickly as possible by not giving them care so they can’t vote against you.”
"To say that people of faith have no role in the public square? You bet that makes me want to throw up."
"I don't believe in an America where the separation of church and state are absolute. The idea that the church can have no influence or no involvement in the operation of the state is absolutely antithetical to the objectives and vision of our country"
Santorum was referring to John F. Kennedy’s famous speech that argued religion should be separate from politics.
Not all folks are gifted in the same way. Some people have incredible gifts with their hands. Some people have incredible gifts and ... want to work out there making things. President Obama once said he wants everybody in America to go to college. What a snob. There are good decent men and women who go out and work hard every day and put their skills to test that aren’t taught by some liberal college professor trying to indoctrinate them. Oh, I understand why he wants you to go to college. He wants to remake you in his image. I want to create jobs so people can remake their children into their image, not his.
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, the whole sexual libertine idea. Many in the Christian faith have said, 'Well, that’s okay. Contraception’s okay.' It’s not okay because it’s a license to do things in the sexual realm that is counter to how things are supposed to be.
“They are taking faith and crushing it. Why? When you marginalize faith in America, when you remove the pillar of God-given rights then what’s left is the French Revolution. What’s left is a government that gives you rights. What’s left are no unalienable rights. What’s left is a government that will tell you who you are, what you’ll do and when you’ll do it. What’s left in France became the the guillotine.”
“When you look and see what the left is trying to do in America today, progressives are trying to shutter faith, privatize it, push it out of the public square, oppress people of faith, strip their charitable deductions away from them, trying to weaken them, churches — trying to say that anyone who believes in the value of Judeo-Christian principles.”
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