This guy, Santorum, is too good to be true. As an example of what right wing thinking (or lack of) is all about, he keeps giving one gem after another. On a Sunday morning interview of CBS he said - “I understand why Barack Obama wants to send every kid to college, because of their indoctrination mills, absolutely … The indoctrination that is going on at the university level is a harm to our country.” He went on to further claim that 62% of students that go to college loose their faith. Ouch!
Well, the 62% number looks like it came from a 2006 survey by Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government which found that 62% of college REPUBLICANS said “religion was loosing its influence on American life.” That very different than what Santorum was saying about the 62% of students in general loosing faith.
But stop and think about that statement for a moment. If it were true or even mostly true, what does that indicate? It indicates to me that once students leave the confines' of Mom and Dad they find a wider world that raises questions that their faith can’t answer. That’s part of being educated, Rick! If you want to insure those kids don’t get “corrupted” by the wider world, then keep them at home and see how they do.
When the world is surpassing us in science, math, and other areas, yo-yos like Rick would rather have a bunch of pious Christian dummies out in the work force rather than smart, possibly liberal leaning unbelievers. Good plan Rick! Think about it.