Rick Santorum is the Taliban

Rick Santorum is a zealot.

He believes, like Taliban and radical Muslims believe about Islam, that he gets to define who is a Christian.

This humorless, hypocritical scold believes he has the right to pass moral judgements on the rest of us. To force the rest of us to accept his moral and religious superiority.

Like mullahs in Iran. Like priests of Santorum's religious forebears in the inquisition.

If Santorum wants to take a dead fetus home for his other children to welcome, that's his business. Personally, I find it a twisting of grief and potentially harmful to his other kids, and damn little to do with the Christianity. But I respect his right to this kind of behavior.

I do not think he should be able to determine or judge who has sex for what reason. To compare being gay to bestiality. To suggest a woman should hold an aspirin between her knees as birth control (his largest supporter said it, Santorum believes it). To oppose amniocentesis based on his religious views. To say Obama is not a Christian. These are markers of this dangerous man's soul.

Santorum may believe the earth was created to serve man, that man is the objective of life, but that outlook has created crisis after crisis and Santorum's style of arrogance and self-righteousness are part of that pathology. That he believes everyone who does not agree with him has a "phoney theology" puts him at odds with many Americans and most of the world.

Santorum does not get to accuse Obama or me or anyone else who does not buy into his white-male dominated rural Catholic world view that we are not Christian. It is time for him to go back to the shadowy dealing for the health care industry from which he has made millions.