The Press Mocks Conservative Candidates Religions – from Santorum’s Catholic Faith to Mitt Romney’s Mormonism – The Elite Media Shows Bigotry

Santorum the Catholic, Romney the Mormon, Obama the Christian, only one of three can have faith in Media's mind -image salon.com

When Rick Santorum was the first GOP Candidate to passionately defend the Catholic Church against the Obama Administrations mandate that they provide insurance to their privately held, (religious organization) charities and entities that included abortion and sterilization (which is not, for those who are not familiar with the major religions, acceptable under any circumstances), the media, from both the right and the left began to question Santorum on his Catholic Faith. They dug up old lectures he gave at a Catholic College, as proof that he might be too far right or too radical as he believed in God and Satan (as do most religions and those who are of faith), the remarks he made speaking as a Catholic, rather than how had voted in the Senate, will be found in many an article, not particularly honest of the press, which is from the right and the left - Matt Drudge to name a major paper, cable news outlet or the so called “Big 3” (CBS, NBC, ABC) televised news outlets. It was a strong message of anti-Catholicism, which has been lying underneath the surface and is now out in the mainstream in full force. The media are saying a practicing Catholic, holding mainstream Catholic views, is somehow…not acceptable.

The same with former Governor Mike Huckabee’s Baptist faith, in 2008, or any candidate that holds Christian views regardless of the denomination.

Now, a columnist for the New York Times feels fine mock Mitt Romney’s Mormonism in a “Tweet” to followers on Face book “Charles M Blow” tweeted: “Let me just tell you this “Mitt Muddlemouth”: I’m a single parent and my kids are amazing! Stick that in your “magic underwear”. #cnndebate”National Review. The National Review links to an article explaining the use of special garments for men in Mormon Religious Practices here at: www.ldschurchtemples.com/mormon/underwear”

This is what happens if one is a member of any religion and is running as a Conservative or Republican GOP Candidate for office – However, did the media cover any of the views held by President Obama’s church of choice? (With the exception of FOX). A Christian Church in Chicago headed by the Revered Wright who used extreme anti-American rhetoric during his “services”, the press waited while the President sat in that Church for decades and then threw the Reverend under the buss at which time, they reported on Obama’s distancing himself from those remarks . Now, whenever the President, who is a Christian, uses his faith to support an agenda, that’s all fine and dandy and is reported by every news outlet available. Yet, he is not “mocked” for being a Christian?

Apparently it depends upon which side of the political aisle one is associated with as to whether or not they, as an American running for President (or any other office) is as a Catholic, or in Romney’s case a Mormon, qualified due to having a “faith”. Although the coverage on Romney’s faith has been limited to this one remark, (so far – although brought up as in “will they attack his faith” – meaning the Religious Right – while in reality it is the secular left that despises all faith.) Rick Santorum was under fire constantly. It is the point from the media however, that we, as American’s have the right to choose any religion we please, under the first amendment, Be that Catholic or Baptist or Buddhist, or Muslim or Mormon, but don’t run for office if you are a Conservative or Moderate Republican.