Santorum takes the pulpit

Today in the Rick Santorum Gazette:

Obama's rejection of the Defense of Marriage Act is right up the former senator's alley -- it's the kind of stuff that led him to make the man-on-dog comments that then turned into his Google Problem, after all. (PoliticsPa)

In South Carolina, he told people at a Christian school that some liberals hate Christianity and therefore criticize the Crusades. From GoUpstate.com via Politico:

And he went back 1,000 years to paint a picture of Islam that barely distinguished radical practitioners of that faith from those who are moderate.

“The idea that the Crusades and the fight of Christendom against Islam is somehow an aggression on our part is absolutely anti-historical,” Santorum said. “And that is what the perception is by the American left who hates Christendom. They hate Christendom. They hate Western civilization at the core. That's the problem.”

Santorum is getting help in the state from a former Jack Abramoff aide who pleaded guilty to treating congressional staffers to a World Series game in 2003, the paper notes.