Listen to What I Say... But Not What I Said

Maybe that is what good ol' Rick wants everybody to do.  First he says "The issue in this race is not the economy.," but the real issue is "because we have a government that is oppressing its people and taking away their freedom."  And that is important now!  (HuffingtonPost.com)

So, he wants the government out of people's lives.  That makes sense.  Except... when it comes to certain 'social issues' that Mr. Santorum wants the government right in the middle of.  Things like abortion and birth control.  He wants people to be able to have their freedom, unless it comes at the cost of something he disagrees with.  The right to choose is a freedom.

He also wants to interrupt another 'freedom'. He wants an end to pornography.  He thinks the Obama Administration is 'soft' on porn.  He thinks the Justice Department under President Obama “seems to favor pornographers over children and families.”  So, let's get the government in on that!  That is important now!  (WashingtonPost.com)

But, it is what he says, not what he said.  He didn't think that Penn State was soft on pedophilia in the Sandusky case.  Nor does the devout Catholic think he has to "grade the Catholic Church" on the pedophilia there.  So, let's just stay out of those areas.  (LezGetReal)

The one thing Rick ought to watch out for though, is who he might be intruding on in the porn area.  From the NewScientist:  "Those states that do consume the most porn tend to be more conservative and religious than states with lower levels of consumption, the study finds."  (TheNewCivilRightsMovement.com) So, Rick's supporters are buying the stuff.

Wonder if they will still vote for him...

I am Sure They Never Thought of These:

With all the talk about how homosexuality and same-sex marriage is just so wrong - because the Bible tells us so, the Huffington Post  makes the point that all the Bible thumpers may not be living up to all that the Bible forbids.

Tattoos are out...

• Leviticus 19:28 states:
• Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you: I am the LORD.

Only long hair and long beards are in... Santorum's hair is too round...

• Leviticus 19:27 states:
• Ye shall not round the corners of your heads, neither shalt thou mar the corners of thy beard.

Gee, ever get kicked in the stones?

• Deuteronomy 23:1 states:
• He that is wounded in the stones, or hath his privy member cut off, shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD.

Don't read your horoscope Mrs. Bachmann to see if your husband still loves you...

• Leviticus 19:31 reads:
• Regard not them that have familiar spirits, neither seek after wizards, to be defiled by them: I am the LORD your God.

Sarah Palin may have to give up her job at Fox News...

• Leviticus 19:16 states:
• Thou shalt not go up and down as a talebearer among thy people: neither shalt thou stand against the blood of thy neighbour; I am the LORD.

Ok, ladies, don't defend your husbands...

• Deuteronomy 25:11-12 states:
• When men strive together one with another, and the wife of the one draweth near for to deliver her husband out of the hand of him that smiteth him, and putteth forth her hand, and taketh him by the secrets
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• Then thou shalt cut off her hand, thine eye shall not pity her.

Mitt, no more ham sandwiches... or Lobster tail..

• Leviticus 11:7-8 reads:
• And the swine, though he divide the hoof, and be clovenfooted, yet he cheweth not the cud; he is unclean to you.
• Leviticus 10-11 states:
• And all that have not fins and scales in the seas, and in the rivers, of all that move in the waters, and of any living thing which is in the waters, they shall be an abomination unto you.

Newt, this one is for you... and your 2nd and 3rd wives...

• Mark 10:11-12 states:
• Whosoever putteth away his wife, and marrieth another, committeth adultery: and whosoever marrieth her that is put away from her husband committeth adultery.
• Deuteronomy 22:20-21 states:
• But if this thing be true, and the tokens of virginity be not found for the damsel:
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• Then they shall bring out the damsel to the door of her father's house, and the men of her city shall stone her with stones that she die: because she hath wrought folly in Israel, to play the whore in her father's house: so shalt thou put evil away from among you

Does football count as work?

• Exodus 31:14-15 states:
• "Ye shall keep the sabbath therefore; for it is holy unto you: every one that defileth it shall surely be put to death: for whosoever doeth any work therein, that soul shall be cut off from among his people.
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• Six days may work be done; but in the seventh is the sabbath of rest, holy to the LORD:

Women, keep your mouths shut in church...

• 1 Corinthians 14:34-35 states:
• Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but they are commanded to be under obedience, as also saith the law.  

 

Will There Be Any Candidates?

The GOP in Laurens County South Carolina probably won't have too many.  "Last Tuesday, the LCGOP unanimously adopted a resolution that would ask all candidates who want to get on the primary ballot to sign a pledge with 28 principles" that include the usual opposition to abortion and upholding gun rights, and a "compassionate and moral approach to Teen Pregnancy", whatever that might mean.  (TPMMuckraker)


But the LCGOP may have gone a bit too far.  Also part of the 28 is "abstinence before marriage", being "faithful" to your spouse, no spouses of the same gender and a big no to civil unions for people of the same sex.  And the big one?  No more looking at pornography.

Not sure how well that bodes for Newt Gingrich.  He won the South Carolina Primary in January.  He beat good Ol' Mitt by 12 percentage points. (NYTimes.com)  But, makes one wonder how the Republicans in Laurens County think about his 3 wives - 2 of which he was unfaithful to with obvious no-abstinence before marriage to a few of them.

Good Ol' Republican Hypocrisy:  Do as I say, not as I do...  Wonder if Rick or Mitt look at Porn??