Rick Santorum: Nelson Mandela Fought 'Great Injustice,' Just Like Republicans Are Battling Obamacare
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By Paige Lavender Posted: 12/06/2013 9:53 am EST
During an appearance on Fox News Thursday night, former Sen. Rick Santorum (R-Pa.) discussed the death of Nelson Mandela, saying the former South African president fought "great injustice" just like Republicans who are battling Obamacare.
"Nelson Mandela stood up against a great injustice and was willing to
pay a huge price for that. That's the reason he's mourned today,
because of that struggle that he performed," Santorum said. "But you're
right, I mean, what he was advocating for was not necessarily the right
answer, but he was fighting against some great injustice, and I would
make the argument that we have a great injustice going on right now in
this country with an ever-increasing size of government that is taking
over and controlling people's lives, and Obamacare is front and center
in that."
The statement, pointed out by Slate's Dave Weigel in a tweet Friday morning, came after Fox News host Bill O'Reilly claimed Mandela "was a great man, but he was a communist."
"I would never attack Nelson Mandela," O'Reilly said next. Watch a clip of Santorum's remarks above.
In the wake of his massive failure as a movie-maker, Rick Santorum has returned to the political realm to argue that religious rights trump women’s health.
Rick Santorum says corporations should be able to deny women birth control.
During an appearance on CNN’s State Of The Union on Sunday, Santorum said that
corporations that are owned by religious employers have the
constitutional right to deny their female employees birth control
coverage.
Santorum was defending Hobby Lobby in their effort to be exempt from
Obamacare’s birth control coverage mandate. The Supreme Court recently
made the decision to hear the case, even though it upheld the law last
year. According to the former GOP Presidential candidate, since the
company’s owners are Christian, they have every right to force their
religious views upon women.
But Santorum’s anti-birth control and anti-women views didn’t go
unchallenged. Former Vermont Governor Howard Dean pointed out that
forcing religious views upon employees tramples their rights. He also
correctly noted that everyone in the nation has to follow the law
because it applies to everyone. In other words, if the law only applied
to people of a certain religion, then it would be unconstitutional. But
since that’s not the reality, Hobby Lobby has no case.
DEAN: “This is one country, we all have to live by a set
of things that are passed in Washington and are agreed to by the court.”
SANTORUM: “The idea that the First Amendment stops after you walk out
of church, that it doesn’t have anything to do with how you live the
rest of your life, I don’t know very many people of faith that believes
that their religion ends with just worship. It ends in how you practice
and live that faith. And President Obama is saying, ‘No, once you step
outside that church, I get to impose my values on you, your religious
values don’t matter anymore, it’s my values that I can impose on you. I
don’t think that’s what the First Amendment stands for. And I don’t
think that’s what the court will say.”
DEAN: “It can’t enable you to force your religious views on other people.”
Rick Santorum is the poster boy for the anti-women crusade of the Republican Party.
This is just the latest attack on women by Santorum. Throughout 2012, Santorum mercilessly demonstrated his anti-women reputation. In January of that year, Santorum said that women should be forced to give birth to their rapist’s baby because it’s a gift from God. As everyone should recall, an Indiana Tea Party senate candidate named Richard Mourdock also said that rape is a way in which God gives women gifts. He was ultimately rejected in favor of the Democratic candidate.
Not even one month had gone by before Santorum falsely claimed that birth control is cheap and that women should buy their own instead of it being covered by insurance. It’s an interesting comment considering Santorum supports banning birth control outright across the country. How can women purchase their own birth control if it becomes illegal?
These are just two of the many things Rick Santorum has said that prove how destructive an card-carrying member of the Christian Right would be if one were to become President.
All women should have free access to birth control to prevent unwanted pregnancies.
Birth control is a vital health need that is used by a great majority of women in America. Even 98% of Catholic women have used birth control at some point in their lives. Ironically, the outcry against the Obamacare birth control mandate has been spearheaded by the male leaders of the Catholic Church.
There’s a good reason why birth control is now being covered by insurance policies beyond the fact that it’s a medically necessary drug. Prior to Obamacare, women had to cover their own birth control costs, which are expensive. Meanwhile, Viagra (erections) has been covered by insurance companies for years. Why should men have their reproductive medication covered but not women? It’s unfair to deny women the opportunity to protect themselves from getting an unwanted pregnancy while approving boner pills for guys who want to have sex with them.
Birth control coverage even has a social effect that conservatives should applaud. By giving women greater and cheaper access to birth control, the number of abortions will drop because the number of unwanted pregnancies will plummet. Studies indicate that when women get free contraception, the abortion rate falls dramatically.
Rick Santorum is ridiculously obsessed with women’s bodies.
At some point, Rick Santorum and his fellow conservatives are going to have to make this connection. Republicans either want to ban birth control or reduce the number of abortions. They can’t do both. In fact, it’s impossible to do both. Banning abortion won’t stop women from having sex and it certainly won’t stop them from getting an abortion. And banning birth control would only lead to more unwanted pregnancies that lead to increased abortions. Allowing corporate bosses to deny women birth control is wrong and infringes upon the rights of employees. And allowing them to do so could give them the power to deny other treatments they disagree with. Employers should not be able to pick and choose what kind of medical care their employees can have. Conservatives constantly claim that they want to get government out of our private lives. Apparently, they’re totally fine with corporations invading them, and they want to abuse the First Amendment to let them do it.
GOP Scandal Dies as Republicans Are Reduced To Whining About the Back End of ACA Website
By: Sarah Jones
Sunday, December, 1st, 2013, 12:50 pm
CNN’s Joe Johns updated Candy Crowley on the White House’s progress
report on Healthcare.gov, which they say can now handle approximately
50,000 users at a time. This didn’t stop Rick Santorum from announcing
on CNN’s State of the Union that ObamaCare is still disastrous because the “back end” is garbage.
Watch a short clip here via CNN:
Demonstrating how in touch he is with average Americans who’ve been
denied healthcare by insurance company death panels, Santorum said that
while the website might work better, the main question is “Is Obama
competent?”
But also, you can talk to “anybody” — well, Santorum talked to some
people in the insurance industry, and while most of the front end may be
looking good, Santorum said insurance companies will struggle to sign
people up for plans. “The information coming out the back end to the
insurance companies is still garbage. It’s undecipherable.” Listing off
the “misinformation”, Santorum went into his favorite area of moral
superiority, “There’s husbands labeled as wives…”
We have no idea upon whose information Santorum based his intel
regarding what comes out of the “back end” of the website other than his
claim that it was people in the insurance industry (known for their
honesty and love for being regulated by ObamaCare), but this is a man
who calls a years old law a bill out of a partisan grudge, so chances
are high that he’s exaggerating for partisan purposes.
In case you’re wondering, the “back end” is a real thing, and not
more projection from the GOP. If the front end is the interface between
the user and the back end, the back end is where things go that the user
can’t see, like programming, databases, scripts and other automated
functions the server performs.
A very concerned Santorum said worst of all was you may think you
have signed up, but you may not. Yes, this is from the party who wants
to repeal the entire law, now pretending to be upset because not
everyone is getting signed up. TRUST.
It shocks no one with a working brain cell that the ObamaCare website
is getting better. The website was overwhelmed and underfunded, due to
Republicans refusing to run state exchanges as planned and then refusing
to fund an expansion to the federal site to handle the overflow. This
is like building a tunnel meant for 50 cars and flooding it with 5,000
cars. There’s going to be a long traffic backup getting into that
tunnel.
This is the anatomy of yet another “scandal” dying. The only
difference here is that this one had actual issues, but they weren’t
scandalous. They were predictable, they were not done deliberately, and
they were always going to be fixed.
You can tell the scandal is dying because Rick Santorum had to be hauled out to concern troll about the “back end”.
GOP Scandal Dies as Republicans Are Reduced To Whining About the Back End of ACA Website was written by Sarah Jones for PoliticusUSA.
Rick Santorum: Why NJ Gays Are Forcing Me to Divorce my Wife
Written by Alex Kuzio October 22nd 2013
Dear Friends, I’ve spent much of the last week in my study, reflecting on the state of the world. Can you believe it? ? New Jersey just became the 14th state to allow homosexuals to marry, and Governor Christie is just letting it happen. How have we gotten here? When did this all become okay? And what do we do now?
I, for one, have chosen to act preemptively. Soon, the sodomites will be slipping on wedding rings. They’ll be lying down in marital beds, and will be doing so legally. This unclean horde will be filing joint tax returns, and receiving federal marriage benefits. The horror is difficult to fathom.
I’ve dedicated much of my political career to fighting against the prospect of this nightmare becoming reality, and to warning the public about the dangers of gay marriage: If gays can marry, the very concept of wedlock is ruined for the rest of us. Their unholy perversion will corrupt the institution—it will spread like devilish wildfire and soon engulf us all. But, alas, no one listened to me.
With a heavy heart, I announce that I am currently in the process of divorcing my beloved wife of 23 years, the mother of my seven children, Karen. She’s a wonderful woman and a generous mother, but if gays can be married, we cannot be. Gay marriage is like a gangrene infection—you may mourn the amputation of your stricken foot, but chopping it off is necessary if you want to stay alive. In order for Karen and I to remain pure in the eyes of the Lord, we must commit a lesser sin. We must divorce, because if we do not, we may succumb to the evils of gayness, too.
I do not relish this decision. I love being married, and believe deeply in the sacred union of a man and a woman. But ever since Will & Grace, with its deviant message of equality, convinced gays they should get married too, I knew this might happen. And I will bear this cross, knowing Jesus approves.
Are you happy now, liberals? Will you sleep well at night, knowing you’ve torn a family apart with your subversive ideas, your twisted morals, your polluted beliefs? You may succeed in giving the gays their precious marriage rights, but hear this: Even if we end up old and lonely, you won’t take us straight, wholesome people down with you. You’ll never force us to share marriage with the gays. We’d rather abandon it altogether.
Sincerely,
Rick Santorum
Rick
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