Rick Santorum has suggested that
Hollywood and colleges are teaching young people to reject
Christianity and support gay marriage.
Santorum, the former senator from
Pennsylvania who lost the 2012 GOP presidential nomination to Mitt
Romney, made his remarks during an appearance on Washington Watch,
a radio show hosted by Tony Perkins, president of the Christian
conservative Family Research Council (FRC), a vocal opponent of LGBT
rights. The show's topic was the 40th anniversary of the
Roe v. Wade ruling.
“If you look at the popular culture
and what comes out of Hollywood, if you go to our schools and
particularly our colleges and universities, they are indoctrinating
in a sea of relativism and a sea of antagonism toward Christianity,”
Satorum
said.
Santorum named abortion, gay nuptials
and pornography as symptoms of a nation which has turned away from
Christian values.
“Abortion is a symptom. Marriage is
a symptom. Pornography,” he added. “All of these are symptoms
of the fundamental issue that we've gotten away from the truth and
the truth-giver.”
(Related: Rick
Santorum: Gay marriage will “disintegrate” American family.)