'The Gay Community 'Effectively Silenced The Church'

[Ichingcarpenter]

The former senator and likely presidential candidate made the claim yesterday in an interview with Family Research Council President Tony Perkins, where they discussed the case in Houston where pastors sued the city for rejecting their petitions to repeal a non-discrimination ordinance. The city in turn subpoenaed several pastors, which Santorum and Perkins considered an affront to pastors’ rights.

“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.”

http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/rick-santorum-were-losing-because-gay-community-effectively-silenced-church

[Man from Pickens]

1. Are they sure?

I seem to remember a systematic coverup of rampant sexual abuse of children occurring throughout the entire globe and later selection of a Pope who was implicated in said coverup undermining their moral authority... but my memory might be a bit fuzzy.

[pinboy3niner]

2. A million mourners stand vigil in St. Peter's Square...

...praying for God to remove the Pope's muzzle. And don't even get me started on the tragic silence of Pat 'Motormouth' Robertson!

[Initech]

3. Gross, too much Santorum in one room.

[Ichingcarpenter]

4. Frothy....

now since the church is silenced can our allies the gays take on the banksters CNN, Fox and the MIC?

[AverageJoe90]

5. No, Mister Dick Sanatorium, young folks are supporting gay rights......

Because they know it's the right thing to do. If anything at all, it was a fair amount of people out there who hadn't supported gay marriage because of not hearing any pro-gay arguments to the contrary, and not the other way around. You managed to get things EXACTLY backwards, and that takes some effort.

Thanks, Ichingcarpenter. May the hardline social reactionaries continue to sink into obscurity, forever more.....

[H2O Man]

6. We should be so lucky.

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