Santorum vs. Obama vs. God: Why liberals are always losing the religion debate – and how they can finally win it

by Laura Booth
New York Daily News

Rick Santorum is not only on a winning streak, picking up victories in Tuesday’s Republican presidential primaries in Colorado, Minnesota and Missouri – he’s also on a well-publicized crusade against PresidentObama for mandating that Catholic schools and hospitals provide employees with access to contraception through their health care plans.

The relative merits of that proposal aside, Santorum used the issue to lambast Obama for his supposed animosity towards religious faith.

Said Santorum at a Texas town-hall meeting on Wednesday, “They are taking faith and crushing it…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 will tell you who you are, what you’ll do and when you’ll do it. What’s left in France became the guillotine.” (Photo: AP)

Not surprisingly, House Speaker John Boehner (R-Oh.) also felt the need to chime in with his opinion of the new legislation, saying, “This attack by the federal government on religious freedom in our country cannot stand and will not stand.”

If both of these statements sound needlessly inflammatory, that’s because they are. But must they continue to define our discourse?
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