It Takes a Family, by Rick Santorum: on Principles & Values


Rick Santorum: Liberalism is an ideology; conservatism is common sense

The liberal news media, Hollywood, and the educational elite in America tend to portray political liberals as the courageous champions of the average guy--and the poor. Conservatives, on the other hand, are portrayed as fundamentally selfish, self-interested individuals. Both conservative economic policy and conservative efforts to help the poor help themselves are more genuinely compassionate--and effective--than the liberal alternative. These policies are already beginning to work, for all Americans.

The media echo chamber promotes that liberal social policies are rational, tolerant, progressive, and caring. Social conservatives, on the other hand, are portrayed as irrational, ignorant, rigid Bible-thumpers obsessed with prophesying woe. Liberals' fundamentally different vision for America is completely at odds with that of our nation's founders, and with the views of most Americans today. Liberalism is an ideology; conservatism is common sense.

Source: It Takes A Family, by Sen. Rick Santorum, p. 3-4 Apr 30, 2006

Rick Santorum: Church-state "neutrality" is not in US Constitution

In 1947 the Supreme Court's majority declared that the "wall between Church and State must be kept high and impregnable." In the Court's eyes, the Constitution's position on religion is one of a "strict and lofty neutrality."

In most cases since then, the question before the Court concerned either prayer in public schools, or public assistance for sectarian (usually Catholic) schools. Just last year, the Supreme Court dodged on a technicality a case that would have removed "under God" from the Pledge of Allegiance: ruling "under God" unconstitutional would have been deeply unpopular, but by the Court's own logic, there is no way to escape the conclusion it must go. The overarching impulse of the Court's position has been to drive religion from the public square, in the name of the constitutional principle "neutrality"--both among religions and between religion and irreligion.

Of course, the term "neutrality" does not appear in the US Constitution. This doctrine is a pure invention of the Court.

Source: It Takes A Family, by Sen. Rick Santorum, p.230-231 Apr 30, 2006

  • The above quotations are from It Takes a Family: Conservatism and the Common Good, by Rick Santorum.
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