Santorum and the Dark Ages

The other night on CNN Rudy Giuliani wondered where all the moderate Republicans had gone.   Somehow they suddenly disappeared. I think millions of others are wondering too.  All we got left are a bunch of right wing evangelicals, so out of touch with the majority of Americans, that I don't recognize any of them.   Who are these creeps?

Galileo

It’s like the Middle Ages all over again, where everyone’s ruled by the pope and the population was generally ignorant—I mean truly stupid—you know like the earth is flat and alchemists spin ordinary metal into shining gold.
 

The pope is still several centuries behind, only about four hundred years.  In 1633, Galileo was excommunicated for believing in heliocentricity—that the sun, not the earth, was the center of the universe and that the earth rotated around it.   Never one to forgive easily, the pope finally acknowledged the church's mistake about twenty years ago.  Actually, Columbus had already founded the west, but the pope wouldn't accept that as evidence.  I guess after thousands of pictures from space showing that our planet was round, all misdeeds were finally withdrawn. 
Whew, that was a close one.

Now we’re down to Catholic birth control and Rick Santorum, who takes the word of the Vatican like God himself  was the burning in the bush beside him.   Has the man even glanced at the statistics?  According to Newsweek, 98% of sexually experienced American Catholic women have used birth control.

Rick Santorum

Maybe his mother used contraception during some time in her life.  Too bad she forgot to use it the night he was conceived.  Oh, but I digress...         

55% of all Americans believe contraception should be included for free in all health-care plans, and 58% of American Catholics believe contraception should be included for free in all health-care plans.

The Republican Party embracing the practice of the strictest rules of Vatican is so absurd, that it would be laughable if the end result wouldn’t become the leader of the free world.   Santorum is nothing more than a sick joke that gets sicker every time he opens his mouth.  I don't know much about the Latter Day Saints but Mormons couldn't be worse than this.

Do you remember that the minute George W left office, Obama gave the green light for stem cell research?   Today, we may see the cure to cancer in our lifetimes, and we may even grow new organs just by using our own cells.  But they'll all be shut off.  They'll be gone.  It'll be the dark ages once again with Santorum.

He’ll fight to take away lifesaving research, and woman’s birth rights, and worse.  Even the Catholic women don’t like that.  Guess they’re a lot smarter than the pope.