Rick Santorum On Religious Freedom: What He Has Forgotten Since Law School

By P. Scott Russell

A law school peer of Santorum's offers a lesson on what the Constitution says about religious freedom for a wayward classmate and his followers.

February 23, 2012  |  Samuel Johnson famously wrote, in 1775, that a false “patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.” Now, it appears that modern scoundrels – politicians and their puppet masters  – have added another disguise to their wardrobe: false constitutional scholarship.

 

Not content to wrap themselves in the flag alone, financial wolves are now relying on politicians, wrapped in the sheep’s clothing of uninformed constitutional platitudes, hoping to sway the voting masses who lack the inclination to study the Constitution themselves. Nowhere is this more true in 2012 than with pronouncements concerning religious freedom, especially those made by my fellow law school graduate, Rick Santorum.