Update: Republican Marriage Vow

As we discussed in our podcast this week, former Senator Santorum and Rep. Michele Bachman signed onto the conservative marriage vow put out by Bob Vander Plaats. This marriage vow which at one point contained language stating that African Americans and POCs were more likely to be raised in a two parent household during slavery than under President Obama. The marriage vow also contained pro-conservative language (read: anti-equality).

Mitt Romney and former New Mexico governor Gary Johnson have both declined to sign the marriage vow. And now, Newt Gingrich, serial monogamist, has also declined to sign the marriage vow.

Lets see who else signs on to this document....

Fmr Senator Santorum: McCain doesn't understand torture

Last night I read about this and was truly flabbergasted. I mean, when Santorum was still in grammar school, John McCain was subjected to abuse at the hands of the North Vietnamese during the Vietnam War. John McCain has been a strong advocate of proper and outlined doctrine regarding "traditional" interrogation. He also speaks virulently about how "enhanced" interrogation does not work. And if there is anyone who should know- its someone who has been subjected to these various techniques.

But oh no... not according to Santorum.

Despite what Leon Pannetta said and I mean, he's just a cabinet member.

Despite what the chair of the Senate Intelligence committee, Senator Dianne Feinstein has stated.

But Rick Santorum, knows that A leads to B which leads to C which led to the death of the most wanted man in the world.

According to Rick Santorum, "I mean, you break somebody, and after they're broken, they become cooperative. And that's when we got this information. And one thing led to another, and led to another, and that's how we ended up with bin Laden"

This makes it sound like Khalid Sheik Mohammed is a horse. I mean we break horses like this to make them do what we want, to make them more docile. But I shouldn't be surprised by this... (He does seem a little concerned about this man-animal connection)

In the end, I finally found someone who said everything that I was thinking... Rachel Maddow addressed this last night during her show. And she was apparently just as flabbergasted as I was by these statements.



Thank you Rachel!

Rick Santorum: Sharia Compliant Banking

Today, while speaking with National Press Club, Chris Moody from the Daily Caller asked Rick Santorum this question:

You mentioned that Sharia law is an existential threat to the United States and there seems to be some general confusion among the general public on how to define Sharia law. How do define Sharia law and can you point to some instances with the United States that its taking over in a way or...

**Transcript follows below. Give it just a second. C-Span's embedder didn't like me very much!**




Here is what Rick Santorum had to say:

Well, if you're looking at instances where it has taken over, we have in the financial sector, sharia compliant finance where funds and people who are doing investments are deferring to people put by groups some of which, lets put it this way, suspect as to authority of what these funds can be invested in a sharia compliant way. Investment houses and others and banks are paying less than reputable people a lot of money to give their blessing for their types of investments. That's a problem. Its a way of, depending on what their investing in and who they are paying to give their blessing could be ways in which resources go to places that I'm not too sure are necessarily in our national security interests. You also have situations where you have movements in this country where you try to cordon off and create family courts or other types of laws where Muslims are only held account to religious law as opposed to the civil laws in this country. That has gone on extensively in Europe but its coming here and its being advocated for in this country. There are concrete examples of how that is occuring in America today and I would argue clearly, I'm not making the argument that America is by any way in the lead on this. The bigger problems and the more notable cases are clearly in places where the higher concentration of Muslims exist and thats primarily in Western Europe and not here.

Sharia is a code of, a civil code of both how the government is to operate, to things as mundane as personal hygeine. Religious practices, it is made up of all various texts, not just the Qu'ran but of various texts that is a code by which Muslims have to live.