Rick Santorum Tries Out New 2016 Slogan: ‘Yes We Can’ Get Bibles Back In Schools

Republican Rick Santorum has decided to move even further to the right, totally ignoring the Constitution he professes to love.

Rick Santorum isn’t doing well in the polls. The failed Republican U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania who tried and failed to win the Republican nomination for president in 2012, is back on the (unannounced) campaign trail. In a hellfire and brimstone speech this weekend at the Liberty Counsel’s religious Awakening conference, Santorum worked hard to regain some lost relevancy.

“We are on a crossroads in American history, a crossroads that looks like we are heading down in a direction that, let’s be honest, no civilization has ever been able to recover from,” Santorum fear-mongered. “We know how it all ends for people of God,” he insisted, without exactly specifying what that meant.

“The left cannot be successful in a country of God-given rights. It can’t,” Santorum claimed, ignoring the current occupant of the White House. “Because they want to be the purveyor of rights, and if God is the purveyor of rights, then they lose.”

The current CEO of the Christian film company EchoLight Studios, Santorum equated education with the bible in his speech.

“We have an obligation to educate, to form, within our churches to preach, within our families to educate, and to fight within our schools. Why are Bibles no longer in public schools? Don’t give me the Supreme Court. The reason Bibles are no longer in the public schools is because we let them take them out of the public schools.”

Luke Brinker at Salon explains.

“The Supreme Court ruling by which Santorum is wholly unperturbed is Abington School District v. Schempp, a 1963 case in which the Court ruled eight to one against public school Bible readings. Writing the Court’s majority opinion, Justice Tom C. Clark noted that such readings ‘require religious exercises,’ in violation of the First Amendment. Clark proceeded to conclude that study of the Bible and religion was permissible if such topics were ‘presented objectively as part of a secular program of education,’ although the context of Santorum’s comments make clear that that’s not what the former senator has in mind.”

Santorum, Right Wing Watch notes, concluded with a twist on President Obama’s iconic campaign chant. “You say, ‘Well we can’t get them back in.’ Yes we can. Yes we can!”

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