He does not care about alleviating suffering because he views it as positive: “Suffering, if you’re a Christian, suffering is a part of life. And it’s not a bad thing, it is an essential thing in life … There are all different ways to suffer. One way to suffer is through lack of food and shelter and there’s another way to suffer which is lack of dignity and hope and there’s all sorts of ways that people suffer and it’s not just tangible, it’s also intangible and we have to consider both.”
He is blatantly intolerant of anyone who questions his version of Christianity: “The American Left hates Christendom. They hate Western civilization.”
He thinks that he can rewrite the well established, undisputed history of violence by Christians against Jews and Muslims throughout the Crusades. Even the Catholic Church, that carried out the Crusades, does not deny their religiously motivated violence!: “The idea that the Crusades and the fight of Christendom against Islam is somehow an aggression on our part is absolutely anti-historical.”
He approves of government intervention into personal lives: “The idea is that the state doesn’t have rights to limit individuals’ wants and passions. I disagree with that. I think we absolutely have rights because there are consequences to letting people live out whatever wants or passions they desire.”
He approves of government intervention into our personal cultural decisions: “They have this idea that people should be left alone, be able to do whatever they want to do, government should keep our taxes down and keep our regulations low, that we shouldn’t get involved in the bedroom, we shouldn’t get involved in cultural issues. That is not how traditional conservatives view the world. There is no such society that I am aware of, where we’ve had radical individualism and that it succeeds as a culture”.
He is an anti-intellectual creationist: “What we should be teaching are the problems and holes and I think there are legitimate problems and holes in the theory of evolution.”
He cares nothing about the stewardship of the planet: “Drill everywhere… There is no such thing as global warming.”
He approves of government prohibiting contraception and, thus, laws based on a religious groups belief system: “One of the things I will talk about, that no president has talked about before, is I think the dangers of contraception in this country. It’s not okay. It’s a license to do things in a sexual realm that is counter to how things are supposed to be. “
He thinks that the cause of all of America’s financial problems is abortion: “The reason Social Security is in big trouble is we don’t have enough workers to support the retirees. A third of all the young people in America are not in America today because of abortion, because one in three pregnancies end in abortion.”
He is homophobic: “I have no problem with homosexuality. I have a problem with homosexual acts.”
He is homophobic again: “If the Supreme Court says that you have the right to consensual [gay] sex within your home, then you have the right to bigamy, you have the right to polygamy, you have the right to incest, you have the right to adultery. You have the right to anything.”
And… did I mention… He is homophobic?: (Well okay… only if you think that comparing homosexuality to homeland security is a bigoted analogy [you decide]) “You can say I’m a hater. But I would argue I’m a lover. I’m a lover of traditional families and of the right of children to have a mother and father. I would argue that the future of America hangs in the balance, because the future of the family hangs in the balance. Isn’t that the ultimate homeland security, standing up and defending marriage?”
