The front page of today's Philadelphia Inquirer features a piece on Rick's new book. Carrie Budoff's article, "Senator's book puts blame on liberalism," claims that in the book Rick "confronts liberalism as the primary source of America's troubles."
Wow, how surprising. Rick blames the liberals? But, that's so out of character. It does make you wonder though, with his radical far-right views, who doesn't Rick consider a liberal?
The Inquirer also gives us some issue-specific excerpts from the book. Here are a few:
Sen. Rick Santorum's Views
On unmarried couples living together: "Despite all the evidence, as a society today we will go to almost any length to avoid telling ourselves, and others, the truth: marriage is better than living together. Too few of us dare say living together without the benefit of marriage is wrong."
On working mothers: "Many women have told me, and surveys have shown, that they find it easier, more 'professionally' gratifying, and certainly more socially affirming, to work outside the home than to give up their careers to take care of their children. Think about that for a moment. What happened in America so that mothers and fathers who leave their children in the care of someone else - or worse yet, home alone after school between three and six in the afternoon - find themselves more affirmed by society. Here, we can thank the influence of radical feminism, one of the core philosophies of the village elders."
On abortion: Abortion puts the liberty and happiness rights of the mother before the life rights of her child.... This was tried once before in America, when the liberty and happiness rights of the slaveholder were put over the life and liberty rights of the slave. But unlike abortion today, in most states even the slaveholder did not have the unlimited right to kill his slave.
Makes you want to run right out and grab a copy, eh?
