Santorum: Gays Have Silenced The Church
Why is it taken for granted on the right that gays and “the church” are on opposite sides? But this is Rick Santorum:
“I really believe in this subject matter at hand with the gay community that a Judeo-Christian worldview cannot survive with a worldview that is as rabidly secular as this movement is,” Santorum said.
“One is going to battle the other and I can tell you that the statists, these secular statists, do not want the competition that comes from the church and so they are going to do everything they can to marginalize them, to force them out of the public square to be quiet,” he continued. “They’re going to use, as they have, the Johnson amendment, try to use the IRS and the tax code to do so, they’re going to use every lever of power the government has to keep this competition of ideas silent so they can win the argument.”
Santorum added that young people support gay rights simply because they have never heard any arguments to the contrary: “The arguments are being won among young people. We are losing in this particular area among young people not because we’re out there and competing, it’s because they have effectively silenced the church on a lot of those issues and young people don’t even know what the opposing view is on these issues.”
Jake October 23rd, 2014 at 5:22 pm
I wish they had – unfortunately I can still hear them.
TAX the CHURCHES!
tiredoftea October 23rd, 2014 at 5:23 pm
Is it possible, at all, that he’s actually Andy Kaufman?
William October 23rd, 2014 at 5:26 pm
Nice try Satan, but you can’t fool us.
Tommy6860 October 23rd, 2014 at 6:01 pm
LMAO! I remember an actual website with similar effect using numbers to affiliate Bush with satan, it is hilarious!
fahvel October 24th, 2014 at 6:11 am
do not degrade Satan please.
ExPFCWintergreen October 23rd, 2014 at 5:38 pm
‘Cuz you *never* hear a Right-Wing Christian viewpoint in America these days….
arc99 October 23rd, 2014 at 5:40 pm
Call for Rick Santorum on line 3
It’s the Vatican calling. Pope Francis says the Church is not being silenced. Take your fingers out of your ears. Maybe that will help.
http://ncronline.org/news/politics/cardinal-dolan-pope-francis-opened-door-gay-civil-unions-debate
Cardinal Dolan: Pope Francis opened door to gay civil unions debate
mea_mark October 23rd, 2014 at 5:43 pm
The church is losing it’s voice because they lost the most important message of all, GOD is about love. The people in the church today have embraced the GOP over GOD and have turned to hate and divisiveness to spread fear in order to help the GOP win elections. Young people understand what is going on, it is the old entrenched politically involved, married to the church, selfish, power hungry, wanna be overlords that don’t understand what is going on. Hate is a losing proposition. The church needs to separate itself from politics and the forces of evilness that is now embodied in the GOP.
Tommy6860 October 23rd, 2014 at 5:59 pm
Wow, jsut wow! Santorum takes hypbole to new heights! Of course, we must keep in mind that he’s a contributor to one of the craziest wing-nut online pseudo-news sources around: World Nut Daily. It’s funny that he says the gays are marginalizing the religious (paraphrasing here) and trying to “force them out of the public square to be quiet”. While he’s at it, ask him if he can tgo anywhere in the USA , walk more than two blocks of any city, town or hamlet and not see a church O.o.
Now, ask him how many times he can walk around any town and specifically point out a religious institution that actually supports equality within their beliefs that isn’t excoriated and marginalized. The hate is strong with this one!
Dwendt44 October 23rd, 2014 at 6:50 pm
The ignorance is plenty strong in this one too.
Suzanne McFly October 23rd, 2014 at 6:31 pm
That’s why my gay friends keep on trying to get me to their devil worship service? I am shocked, I am so glad rick is here to set me “straight”.
Obewon October 23rd, 2014 at 6:47 pm
Santorum corrected: Gay Priests haven’t silenced any Church ever. Conservative majority SCOTUS proved unconstitutional Rick isn’t relevant per the 14th Amendment, et al.
Lumpy October 23rd, 2014 at 7:18 pm
The fact that American Christians complain about being an oppressed minority in America is a joke.
If the IRS actually took away tax exempt status (oh please oh please) from these politic selling carnival barkers, the shrieking would be unbearable.
tracey marie October 23rd, 2014 at 7:18 pm
what tax code frothy, churches do not pay taxes.
Bunya October 23rd, 2014 at 8:06 pm
When will they leave the poor, persecuted Christians alone? To show their disdain for the oppressed followers of God, the gays have caused 9/11, tsunamis, earthquakes, tornadoes, sent us a black president, and now they’re are heartlessly trying to silence the church! Have they no mercy? Have they no compassion?
WrennS October 23rd, 2014 at 8:46 pm
Ricky has it backward.
What has really happened is that the Church (and the religious right) lost the ability to control the narrative. They lost their ability to silence the gay community. An ability they had for decades. Society as a whole is no longer aiding them in this.
Such things as even the DADT, ( which helped keep ‘the gay’ in the closet), the whole idea of ‘okay – do what you want just don’t let me see it in the street’. The – ‘I don’t want my kids to see that’… All kept the idea of the idea gay as being anything but bad out of the mainstream. As such, it allowed the more conservative side of society to name it and call it whatever they liked or wanted. Controlled the narrative. Gays are losers. Gays are sick. Gays are (catholic encyclicals) ‘intrinsically disordered’.
It’s not that the gay community has silenced the Church. It’s that the Church has lost it’s ability to silence the gay community.
majii October 23rd, 2014 at 10:10 pm
STFU, Lil Ricky. Your whining is irritating and a sign of immaturity. Not one gay person thus far has blocked the doorways of any church in America to keep anyone from entering them; shutdown any Christian TV or radio program; put gags on the mouths of their detractors; physically or verbally attacked those like yourself; rounded up groups of people and held ‘tarring and feathering’ parties; etc. Your predictions have just as much of a chance of coming true as those you used to oppose ending DADT–NONE.
Warman1138 October 23rd, 2014 at 11:09 pm
Why is it every time Santorum speaks and I make the mistake of listening, I can literally feel my brain cells dying.