Santorum dropped out

[Elijah Craig]

(04-13-2012 09:16 AM)EmilyKing Wrote:  Can't say I'm upset that Santorum is out. To me, he was a barely disguised fundy.

He was a devout Roman Catholic. And Roman Catholics tend to be far more conservative than Fundies are. Catholics were officially opposed to abortion long before Protestants were. Catholics have been against birth control since forever. Roman Catholics don't even let priests marry, let alone allow female pastors. Practically all the intellectual weight of social conservatism in the United States is pulled by Roman Catholic ethicists.The best that Southern Baptists can present don't hold a candle to Catholic thinkers, let alone fundies. So his views on some issues are probably more conservative than you'd hear out of most evangelicals, but unlike with Fundies he can support those positions with serious intellectual reasoning and long standing tradition.

He comes across as very stiff and uptight. But a lot of Pennsylvanians do (to my appearance). He is from the Pittsburgh area. That is a very conservative region, basically the same as Georgia except that drinking alcohol is widely accepted and practiced there. =I do know one or two people who know him and he is a personally nice and good person. He had a good reputation on Capitol Hill for treating his staff with fairness and kindness. It doesn't come across on TV and he's been targeted by homosexuals to make him seem like a cruel person.

You can find all kinds of people who think "santorum" is actually a Latin term for the sexual residue of male anal sex. It's a completely invented term, it is not Latin, and anyone who believes that is showing their own ignorance and gullibility. There have also been people on this thread who characterized him as cold-hearted, never mind his consistent track record of supporting social justice issues.

He is "fundy" on a handful of issues... which is completely inline with what you would expect a devout Catholic to be.