I suppose it was inevitable that sooner or later Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum would come around to start harping on the horrible social “problem” of pornography in our society. He just can’t help himself.
Of the four rival primary candidates, Santorum is the only one to address the topic of pornography on his website, as if that is part of the job description of President of the United States. The others stick mostly to stating their more infinitely mundane positions on economic, domestic, foreign, and social policy.
America is "suffering a pandemic of harm from pornography," including “profound brain changes in both children and adults," Santorum told CNN last week; and if elected president, his administration will most certainly so something about it.
Brain changes, really? Profound brain changes, even? He’s talking about pleasure responses, right?
No; not a chance.
"Addiction to pornography is now common for adults and even for some children," says Santorum's website. "The average age of first exposure to hard-core, Internet pornography is now 11. Pornography is toxic to marriages and relationships. It contributes to misogyny and violence against women. It is a contributing factor to prostitution and sex trafficking."
Gratuitous sex – that is, sex outside of marriage and for the procreation of children – sex just for fun and satisfaction of the itch – is sinful; that’s what he’s talking about.
"Current federal 'obscenity' laws prohibit distribution of hardcore (obscene) pornography on the Internet, on cable/satellite TV, on hotel/motel TV, in retail shops and through the mail or by common carrier," he continues. "Rick Santorum believes that federal obscenity laws should be vigorously enforced."
"I said that as president I would enforce the law which is not being done now," he told reporters last week. "If elected President, I will appoint an Attorney General who will do so," he declares on his web page, which also criticizes the Obama administration for failing to prosecute the law.
"The Obama Administration has turned a blind eye to those who wish to preserve our culture from the scourge of pornography and has refused to enforce obscenity laws," it continues. "While the Obama Department of Justice seems to favor pornographers over children and families -- that will change under a Santorum Administration."
Rick Santorum believes that Satan has his sights on America and that his mission as president will be to lead our nation on a crusade of spiritual warfare. "This is not a political war at all, this is not a culture war at all, this is a spiritual war," he once declared. Satan attacks us as a nation "using those great vices of pride, vanity and sensuality as the root to attack all of the strong plants that has so deeply rooted in the American tradition."
Rick Santorum, you must understand, just doesn’t think much of the First Amendment unless it’s about protecting his own freedom to exercise his religion. Otherwise, he could care less about freedom of speech and expression. He doesn’t want you looking at sex movies.
This guy is obsessed with sex and wants to make policing sex a top priority of his presidential administration. America should go to war over sexual and “moral” values, he believes.
"[The] right to privacy…doesn't exist in my opinion in the United States Constitution." he says. “The idea is that the state doesn't have rights to limit individuals' wants and passions; I disagree with that. I think we absolutely have rights because there are consequences to letting people live out whatever wants or passions they desire,”
“We have a right in the Constitution of religious liberty but now the courts have created a super-right that’s above a right that’s actually in the Constitution, and that’s of sexual liberty. And I think that’s a wrong, that’s a destructive element.” Santorum once declared.
Santorum has pledged to repeal all federal funding for contraception and allow the states to outlaw birth control. “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,” he preached recently.
“I think it’s harmful to our society to have a society that says that sex outside of marriage is something that should be encouraged or tolerated, particularly among the young.”
“Life begins at conception, no exceptions for incest, rape, or the life of the mother, and doctors performing abortions should be criminally charged,” says Rick Santorum.
He believes that police should have the power to search marital bedrooms for contraceptives, which, if he had his way, would be illegal. “[t]he state has a right to do that, I have never questioned that the state has a right to do that. It is not a constitutional right; the state has the right to pass whatever statues they have.”
Rick Santorum signed the ultra socially conservative Family Leader's pledge supporting a ban of pornography. Sensible candidate, Mitt Romney refused to sign that same pledge - which also contained provisions on gay marriage - because his campaign said the oath "contained references and provisions that were undignified and inappropriate for a presidential campaign."
“Gay people should stop being gay,” Santorum once said. “Marriage is not about affirming somebody’s love for somebody else. It’s about uniting together to be open to children, to further civilization in our society.” “[Gay marriage] threatens my marriage. It threatens all marriages. It threatens the traditional values of this country.”
He simply doesn’t believe in a secular government. He is an unabashed Christian theocrat. Of President Kennedy’s solemn secular promise made in 1960 to the American people, Rick Santorum admitted recently that it makes him “want to throw up.”
My earlier posts discuss numerous reasons supporting the conclusion that Rick Santorum personifies the term “religious bigot,” and why his criticism of President Obama for leading America based on a so-called theology different from that in the Bible, amounts to clear evidence of his own intent if elected president to govern us by his Catholic Biblical theology.
If elected President of the United States, Rick Santorum surely will lead this nation on the theology of the Holy Bible and impose his own anal retentive brand of Christian religious values on us.
He can’t wait to become the first American sex police commander in chief.
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