Santorum Says Democrats are Anti-Science

UPDATE: Santorum continued targeting environmentalists Monday, portraying those who would impose regulations on miners and oil drillers as radicals who don’t care about the well-being of the country.

He said global warming is based on “phony studies” and that climate change science is merely “political science.” Santorum strongly rejected the contention that his views are “anti-science” saying that “when it comes to the management of the Earth, [the Democrats] are the anti-science ones. We are the ones who stand for science and technology,” reports CBS News.

The former senator even went as far as to say that the Obama administration and Democrats want people to be scared of certain petroleum-extraction technologies “so they can control your lives.” Santorum went on to accuse Obama of degrading the institution of marriage.

While Santorum continues focusing on divisive social and religious issues, Mitt Romney is emphasizing the economy and jobs as well as his corporate experience. “The differences give Republican voters clear choices to shape their party's mission and image heading into the fall battle against Obama,” writes the Associated Press.

Sunday, Feb. 19: Rick Santorum pushed back against claims Sunday that he challenged President Obama’s Christian beliefs when he said the White House policies are based on “some phony theology. Not a theology based on the Bible. A different theology.” It wasn’t just an off-the-cuff remark either. When he was asked about his words later, Santorum suggested Obama practices a different kind of Christianity, reports the Associated Press.

“In the Christian church there are a lot of different stripes of Christianity,” he said. “If the president says he's a Christian, he's a Christian.” He then accused Obama of reaching a “new low in this country’s history of oppressing religious freedom,” referring to the rule that employers provide contraceptives as part of health-care plans, according to Bloomberg.  

Appearing on CBS, Santorum acted shocked that anyone would take his comments about theology, the bible, and the president as a questioning of the president’s faith. No, it was about confronting radical environmentalists, reports Politico.

“This idea that man is here to serve the earth as opposed to husband its resources and be good stewards of the earth,” Santorum said. “I think that is a phony ideal. I don't believe that's what we're here to do. We're not here to serve the earth. The earth is not the objective, man is the objective.”

Was it all a political ploy? At the very least, Santorum managed to get the White House’s attention. Robert Gibbs, Obama’s former spokesman and currently an adviser to his re-election campaign, said Santorum went “well over the line” with the statements, according to USA Today.

The “forceful rebuke” by the Obama camp suggests the president’s team “is taking Santorum more seriously these days as a potential general election challenger,” writes the Associated Press.

And while on the topic of what Santorum thinks about Obama, apparently the former senator thinks the president dislikes disabled children so much he just wishes they would all get aborted.

“One of the things that you don't know about ObamaCare in one of the mandates is they require free prenatal testing,” Santorum said. “Why? Because free prenatal testing ends up in more abortions and, therefore, less care that has to be done, because we cull the ranks of the disabled in our society. That too is part of ObamaCare—another hidden message as to what president Obama thinks of those who are less able than the elites who want to govern our country,” according to NBC News.