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alp227

(32,034 posts)
Tue Mar 13, 2012, 01:26 PM Mar 2012

Rick Santorum Prayed with Anti-Gay Pastor Implicated in Cover-up of Child Abuse

Before the Tennessee primary, Rick Santorum visited the Bellevue Baptist Church outside of Memphis where he prayed alongside Pastor Steve Gaines. Gaines said that “God doesn’t come to take sides, God comes to take over and I pray that He will takeover in America.” He asked God to forgive America for “the sins of racism, the sins of abortion and the sins of immorality”:

(video at link)

Gaines has a sordid history, and the website Ethics Daily, a project of the Baptist Center for Ethics, reported back in 2006 that Gaines failed to report to the police a minister in his church, Paul Williams, who molested his own...

full: http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/rick-santorum-prayed-anti-gay-pastor-implicated-cover-child-abuse

So will Romney bring this up in future campaign ads (too late for AL and MS)?

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Rick Santorum Prayed with Anti-Gay Pastor Implicated in Cover-up of Child Abuse (Original Post) alp227 Mar 2012 OP
Well the Pope and Bishops have no problem with molesting young boys so why should Rick? appleannie1 Mar 2012 #1
Guess It was the Closest Thing He Could Find To A Catholic Bishop, Sir The Magistrate Mar 2012 #2
He should ask to be forgive for the sins of stealing from children under tsuki Mar 2012 #3

The Magistrate

(95,247 posts)
2. Guess It was the Closest Thing He Could Find To A Catholic Bishop, Sir
Tue Mar 13, 2012, 05:17 PM
Mar 2012

Must have made him feel right at home, cozying up with a cleric who shielded a pedophile from the law....

tsuki

(11,994 posts)
3. He should ask to be forgive for the sins of stealing from children under
Tue Mar 13, 2012, 09:45 PM
Mar 2012

his care, the children of PA.

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