Another religious extremist who endorses torture is PA's Rick Santorum. Santorum expects PA residents to do what they always do. 98% of PA's incumbents are reelected - probably because most PA residents even wanted their State government Congressmen to be highly paid - until good Americans and some newspapers kept pointing it out. At one point, this religious extremist Senator was so worried as to declare a moratorium on meeting lobbyists. How does a religious person lie? Repeatedly.
From the Philadelphia Inquirer of 9 Mar 2006:
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Santorum and lobbyists resume talks
Gatherings were on hiatus. Now, aides say the focus is different.
After saying in January that he would suspend his regular meetings with lobbyists, Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum ... has resumed meetings with many of the same lobbyists at the same time and on the same day of the week.
Santorum ... suspended his biweekly encounters Jan. 30. His decision came as Democrats named him their top target in November's Senate elections, and after the guilty plea of former lobbyist Jack Abramoff to charges of conspiring to corrupt public officials.
Now, his aides said, he has resumed the meetings with lobbyists. The purpose of the gatherings is to help his reelection effort, but some of the same topics are discussed, aides and participants said.
In the month since his announcement, Santorum has held two meetings attended by the same core group of lobbyists, and has used the sessions to appeal for campaign aid, according to participants. Both meetings were convened at the same time as the previous meetings - 8:30 a.m. - on the same day of the week - Tuesday - and lasted for about as long as the earlier gatherings - one hour.
Instead of being held in the Capitol, however, the recent meetings were conducted nearby. The first was held about three blocks away, at the headquarters of the National Republican Senatorial Committee. The second was around the corner from that building, at the Heritage Foundation.
The Capitol meetings had been convened to advance the Republican cause by enlisting lobbyists to back the party's agenda. The meetings were largely information exchanges during which Santorum and other Republicans gave speeches and fielded questions from the lobbyists.
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Well, if he hides these meetings where we will not discover them, then he was not lying? Nixonian logic? Sounds like the Dover PA religious extremists who Sen Santorum encouraged and supported. They too have this problem with god's commandments: thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor.
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Although Defendants attempt to persuade this Court that each Board member who voted for the biology curriculum change did so for the secular
purposed of improving science education and to exercise critical thinking skills, their contentions are simply irreconcilable with the record evidence. Their asserted purposes are a sham, and they are accordingly unavailing, for the reasons that follow. ...
Finally, although Defendants have unceasingly attempted in vain to distancethemselves from their own actions and statements, which culminated in repetitious, untruthful testimony, such a strategy constitutes additional strong evidence of improper purpose ...
Any asserted secular purposes by the Board are a sham and are merely
secondary to a religious objective.
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But according to the moral Rick Santorum, these were good people? Clearly the judge must be wrong about people that Rick Santorum approves of.
And if he did not see the torture, then torture did not exist? He cannot even be honest about who he meets with. Another of god's chosen politicians? Clearly the Philadelphia Inquirer must be lying. One chosen by god would never lie - even to pervert the government of the United States.