Santorum: I’m ‘Fighting For Truth Not The Perversion The Media Try To Ram Down Public’s Throat’

Rick Santorum is trying to position himself once again as the religious liberty savior America cannot live without.

Does Rick Santorum have a God complex? A martyrdom complex? Could it be he is America’s one true savior?

The failed and former U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania, and failed and former and likely future GOP presidential candidate met with Iowa state lawmakers on Wednesday to preach his virtues, and the preach against the rights of gay people – his all-time favorite topic.

Santorum, trying to convince them to support a potential Santorum For President campaign, trashed the governors of Indiana and Arkansas, who, he said, were powerless against the media during last week’s “religious freedom” debate.

“What happened there was the media created a firestorm, and leaders didn’t lead,” he charged.

“I’ve been through that firestorm,” Santorum said, patting himself on the back like a war veteran. “I go back 13 years, when I was in the Senate and stood up and said, ‘If the Supreme Court decides a case this way, then all these bad things are going to start happening.’ And I said we would have same-sex marriage in this country in ten years. I was wrong: it was five years. And I was put through a national wringer like no one had been put through and I have been put through over and over and over again, because I am not going to back down from what I believe is the right course for our country.”

“I always say, whether it’s religious liberty now or the marriage issue or a whole bunch of other things, we’re losing these arguments simply because we’re not making them,” Santorum continued. “We’re not making them because we’re intimidated from them.”

And then, he hinted, Armageddon.

“If that continues, then life as we know it, particularly the family, is going to be on a very, very bad track over the long term.”

Santorum bragged that an unnamed group gave him an A+ “in fighting for the truth, and not the perversion that we saw the media try to ram down the public’s throat about what Indiana and Arkansas were doing.”

In reality, the mainstream and left-leaning media did a good job of explaining how dangerous these two states’ RFRA bills actually were.

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