By the way, this is 100% real. As was the article that I posted yesterday about renaming the Gulf of Mexico. I wouldn’t post it or share it if the articles weren’t 100% real!
Also, there is a link to the video where Santorum actually said this at the bottom of the post-Drew
Rick Santorum continued to rail against President Obama’s so-called war against religion during a town hall in Plano, Texas Wednesday night. The former Pennsylvania senator — who has spent the last several days criticizing the government’s requirement that insurers provide contraception coverage and the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeal’s decision striking down Proposition 8 — accused the administration of “crushing” religion and setting the United States on the path towards executing religious people by decapitation:
SANTORUM: They are taking faith and crushing it. Why? Why? When you marginalize faith in America, when you remove the pillar of God-given rights, then what’s left is the French Revolution. What’s left is the government that gives you right, what’s left are no unalienable rights, what’s left is a government that will tell you who you are, what you’ll do and when you’ll do it. What’s left in France became the guillotine. Ladies and gentlemen, we’re a long way from that, but if we do and follow the path of President Obama and his overt hostility to faith in America, then we are headed down that road.
Watch it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ZWqls5KE5d8
It seems to me that Rick Santorum has forgotten about a certain era in the history of America that dealt with executing people due to their religious stances…The Salem Witch Trials.
In Salem, Massachusetts, men and women were being burned at the stake for simply being suspected of witchcraft, most of the time without any shred of proof of which is true.
Does Santorum really want beheadings to come back? Is he that demented?
Well, then again, only someone so obsessed with homosexuality even though he claims to be straight could be that demented.
Santorum is (heh) full of shit.
However, being a bit of a nitpicker, I will take this opportunity to point out that witches were not burned in America. They were tortured to death, drowned, and hanged, but, in a small mercy, not burned.
Also, when witches were burned, wet hay was often used so that they would suffocate before the fire reached them, or, in some cases, the executioner would snap their neck.
Source: thepoliticalfreakshow
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gothicegg reblogged this from freesamuel and added:
The guillotine was also an execution reserved for the rich prior to the French Revolution. Supposedly it is less messy...
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freesamuel reblogged this from thepoliticalfreakshow and added:
Santorum is (heh) full of shit. However, being a bit of a nitpicker, I will take this opportunity to point out that...
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freesamuel said:
Historical note — witches were never burned in America. Tortured, drowned and hanged, but never burned.
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