This is one reason – among many – why it is a bad idea to agree to be interviewed by Glenn Beck:
Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum said Thursday that President Obama wants more young adults to go to college so they can undergo “indoctrination” to a secular world view.
In an hour-long interview with conservative television host Glenn Beck, Santorum also defended his record on abortion and his vote in favor of President George W. Bush’s No Child Left Behind education law.
On the president’s efforts to boost college attendance, Santorum 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 claimed that “62 percent of kids who go into college with a faith commitment leave without it,” but declined to cite a source for the figure. And he floated the idea of requiring that universities that receive public funds have “intellectual diversity” on campus.
Just as well Rick Santorum is properly understood as a missionary in the culture wars, eh? I have no idea what Santorum’s definition of a “faith commitment” is but, lordy, this is bananas on stilts stuff. Worse still, it swamps anything useful or even sensible that Santorum might have to say on any other matter.
As my friend Kerry Howley says, “‘Book-learnin’ is bad for my worldview’ seems like a poor advertisement for said worldview.“
[Via Doug Mataconis]
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