santorum s questioned obama s christianity saying the president of the united states is exercising his values and trumping the values of the church? kirsten, what say you? when somebody brings up theology and refers to the bible it is a little hard to believe they re not questioning his christianity. i saw some explanation of it that he was talking about radical environmentalists. i don t really see that. so i think that it was out of bounds, even if it was about radical environmentalists, the president is not a radical environmentalists by any stretch of the imagination. julie: yeah. so, yeah, it is definitely out of bounds for a presidential candidate to say something like this. julie: let s hear from mr. santorum himself. he says he was not. let s take a listen. accept the fact that the president is a christian. i just said that when you have a world view that elevates the earth above man and says that, we can t take those resources pause we re going to harm the earth, by
about president obama s faith. he said he was not questioning the president s christian values when he said this. it is not about you. it is not about your quality of life. it is not about your jobs. it is about some phony ideal, some phony theology. not a theology based on the bible. different theology. julie: white house called out santorum with campaign spokesman robert gibbs saying the following. i think it is time in our politics which we get rid of this mind set if we disagree we have to disqualify each other. that if we, not just on political positions but we question character and faith. it is wrong. you think he is questioning his faith? i can t help but think that those remarks are well over the line. julie: kirsten powers, daily beast columnist and rich lowery editor for the national review join us. both are fox news contributors. great to see you both. hi, there. julie: rich, and kirsten as well, do you think
of context almost every single time it has been cited. that is just a fact. and now, if you want to argue about environmentalism we can have that argument but not out of bounds for rick santorum to have one view of environmentalism and to criticize what he considers radical environmentalism. that is not a criticism of the president s faith. not a criticism of his character. so let s be clear what we re arguing about. but, rich you don t bring up bible and theology and say you re not talking about christianity. kirsten, i ve written columns myself saying the radical global warmists who just believe they know with certainty what the global temperature is going to be 100 years from now and exactly what we have to do about it and talk about it in highly moralistic terms is secular theology. that is fine. theology. but you don t bring up the bible? what s that? you don t bring up the bible. rick santorum we both
have prenatal testing. who is he kidding? eric: i will give you this, he started playing around in the social conservatism, got a little bit of a bump from it, or a big bump from it. maybe taking too many bites at that apple. give you that. kimberly: with this issue? contraception? catholic church? eric: it became this issue and maybe he was delving in theology. i don t know where he was. the issue goes back bob: let republicans fight values all they want. i think democrats game all along, don t say anything about it. eric: get back to the economy the better. kimberly: talk about that for a moment, the juxtaposition how it s been handled. paul ryan was on this weekend. listen to what representative paul had to say. we are seeing this new government activism, a paternalistic arrogant, political philosophy that puts new government rights in the way of the constitutional rights. that is his criticism how obama went after catholics;
questioning the president s christianity. so santorum clarified remarks. i was talking about the radical environmentalists. that s why i was talking about energy. the idea that man is not, is here to serve the earth. as opposed to husband that resources and be good steward of the earth. i think that is a phony ideal. i don t believe that is what we re here to do. kimberly: did he cross the line? did he need to clarify it? dana: he thought he needed to clarify it. he did a fine job. it s much ado about nothing. there has been this, there has been not enough news apparently for into look at. you don t think so? greg: you re right. if it wasn t for santorum we d be sitting here quietly looking at each other. kimberly: it would be awkward. dana: at least he gave us material. if you are looking for a slight in any comment from a politician on live television, speaking passionately,