Obama Faith "as a convenience"

Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum said that Barack Obama uses his faith "as a convenience" when it serves him, while at the same time being the most anti-religion president in history.

"Over the last few weeks, he has done more to assault religion in this country than any president, certainly in recent history, maybe even in history," said Santorum. And by saying that Jesus would have called for higher taxes, Obama was completely misreading the bible, touted the staunch Roman Catholic father of seven.

Santorum was talking a day after Obama used the National Prayer Breakfast to quote St. Luke’s Gospel that Jesus’ teaching of "Unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required," should be interpreted to mean that Christ would have wanted the rich to pay higher tax rates.

"Jesus wasn’t talking to the government," said Santorum. "He wasn’t talking that the government should take more from you.

"This is a president who uses religion when it’s convenient to get people to pay more money and more tribute to government and then uses government to strike down religion."

"He was talking about your responsibility to your fellow man, your responsibility to God to provide for the least among us and not your responsibility to fund Caesar.

"That is a complete misinterpretation of the bible."

Santorum said last week’s Supreme Court decision which found unanimously against the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s view that religious ministers should be covered by sex discrimination laws, coupled with the government’s decision that Catholic healthcare providers should be required to offer contraceptive services proved that Obama is anti-church.

"Even Elena Kagan was amazed by the claims the Obama administration was making," he said referring to the Supreme Court justice who was formerly Obama’s solicitor general.

"In essence [the administration] said that the Catholic Church had to hire women priests otherwise it was discrimination; ultra-Orthodox Jews had to have women rabbis.

"This kind of assault on religion continued just this past week with him imposing on the Catholic Church and Catholic institutions a requirement that in order to participate in Obamacare, they would have to offer services in their church which are expressly against the teachings of that church," added Santorum.

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