Without a doubt of of the most psychologically disturbed of the would be GOP presidential candidates is Rick Santorum. The guy truly ought to move to Iran or Afghanistan and join the Taliban and similar religious extremist groups since his views on gays and abortion are likely identical to those of such theocrats. Santorum clearly shows the danger far right Christianists pose to the religious freedoms of other citizens. Nothing short of forcing their fear and hate based beliefs on all citizens will suffice. Think Progress has two posts in which Santorum reveals his extremism on favored Christianist issues. The first deals with his desire for a federal constitutional amendment to ban same sex marriage and here's a snippet:*
SANTORUM: Once people realize the consequence to society of changing this definition [of marriage], it’s not that we’re against anybody. People can live the life they want to live. They can do whatever they want to do in the privacy of their home with respect to that activity. Now you’re talking about changing the laws of the country. and it could have a profound impact on society, on faith, on education. Once people realize that, they say, you know what, we respect people’s life to live the life they want to lead but don’t change how with that definition.
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In the second, Mr. Frothy Mix rants that the the abortion exception to protect the life of the mother is "phony." Here's a sample of that batshitery:
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When discussing his track record as a champion of the partial birth abortion ban, Santorum dismissed exceptions other senators wanted to carve out to protect the life and health of mothers, calling such exceptions “phony”:
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SANTORUM: When I was leading the charge on partial birth abortion, several members came forward and said, “Why don’t we just ban all abortions?” Tom Daschle was one of them, if you remember. And Susan Collins, and others. They wanted a health exception, which of course is a phony exception which would make the ban ineffective.
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