By David Edwards
Monday, February 20, 2012 12:59 EST
Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum charged on Monday
that President Barack Obama and Democrats were “anti-science” because
they refused to exploit the Earth’s natural resources to the limits of
technology.
Over the weekend the candidate had been criticized for saying that
President Barack Obama followed a theology that was not “based on the
Bible.” He later insisted that he was talking about the president siding
with “radical environmentalists.”
“I accept the fact that the president’s a Christian,” Santorum told CBS host Bob Schieffer
on Sunday. “I just said when you have world view that elevates the
Earth above man and says that we can’t take those resources because
we’re going to harm the Earth — like things that are not scientifically
proven like the politicization of the whole global warming debate.”
The candidate returned to the subject again on Monday at a rally in Steubenville, Ohio.
“But if we don’t provide those opportunities for those jobs that can
sustain a family, for power in this country that is affordable, not just
coal but all energy,” Santorum told a crowd of supporters at
Froehlich’s Classic Corner restaurant. “It drove the economy of
Southwestern Pennsylvania, Eastern Ohio for a long time. And through a
variety of things — yes, problems with management, problems with
negotiations — but actually there were bigger problems. The bigger
problems of environmental regulation. In many cases environmental
regulation that has gone extreme, particularly in this administration.” READ MORE
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