Rick Santorum last week claimed that the real reason President Obama wants to increase the number of students who go to college is so he can “indoctrinate” the young into a “left-wing ideology.” In his speech, which appears in a video below via CNN, Santorum acknowledges that “62% of children who enter college with a faith conviction leave without it.” He also accused people who donate money to their alma mater of “undermining the very principles of our country” by supporting institutions that (supposedly) relieve students of their faith.
In reality, we know that the more educated students are, the less likely they are to be subject to racism, prejudice, and homophobia, three things the Bible and many, if not most, organized religions are dependent upon, three things the radical right uses in an attempt to subjugate, demean, and divide Americans.
Via The Hill:
“It’s no wonder President Obama wants every kid to go college,” Santorum said Wednesday in Florida, according to CBS News. “The indoctrination that occurs in American universities is one of the keys to the left holding and maintaining power in America. And it is indoctrination. If it was the other way around, the ACLU would be out there making sure there wasn’t one penny of government dollars going to colleges and universities, right?”
In Obama’s State of the Union speech a day earlier, he called on higher-education institutions to become more affordable or face funding cuts from the federal government.
“Higher education can’t be a luxury — it is an economic imperative that every family in America should be able to afford,” Obama said in his speech.
Santorum said that if higher-education institutions “taught Judeo-Christian principles,” “they would be stripped of every dollar.”
“If they teach radical secular ideology, they get all the government support that they can possibly give them,” Santorum continued. “Because, you know, 62 percent of children who enter college with a faith conviction leave without it.”
Assuming Santorum’s numbers are accurate, it makes perfect sense that he would be afraid of educated people. After all, his entire career, his entire focus is based solely on the Bible. And the Bible, and religion, when taken the way the radical right in America interpret it, cannot, possibly exist peacefully with science, medicine, the arts, any progressive thinking, certainly not with homosexuality, equality for women and minorities, really, everything that America stands for.
Santorum, as New Civil Rights Movement writer Benjamin Phillips recently wrote, wants to be the President of Jesus.And that’s just not possible.
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