Rick Santorum declares that: Mainline Protestant churches are gone from the world of Christianity!
This ought to go over real big with Protestants. 
He tripped over his tongue again. BBI
Santorum: Mainline Protestant Churches Are in the Grip of Satan
By Steve M.
February 17, 2012
Kyle Mantyla of People for the American Way's indispensable Right Wing Watch has come up with an audiotape of a Rick Santorumaddress to the students of the conservative Catholic Ave Maria University in Florida, delivered in 2008. It's an altogether remarkable speech depicting Rick as a leader in a "spiritual war" against Satan for control of America. Much of its involves the usual right-wing stuff about the conquest of academia (outside bastions like Ave Maria) by the forces of moral relativism, but then there is this Santorum assessment of mainline Protestantism:
[O]nce the colleges fell and those who were being educated in our institutions, the next was the church. Now you'd say, 'wait, the Catholic Church'? No. We all know that this country was founded on a Judeo-Christian ethic but the Judeo-Christian ethic was a Protestant Judeo-Christian ethic, sure the Catholics had some influence, but this was a Protestant country and the Protestant ethic, mainstream, mainline Protestantism, and of course we look at the shape of mainline Protestantism in this country and it is in shambles, it is gone from the world of Christianity as I see it.
The whole speech is nutty, but it's nutty in a way that barely penetrates anymore: the culture is sexually depraved, academia is under evil influence, etc., etc. This is the kind of thing that would lose Santorum all kinds of votes in the general election, but not now, and the people it alienates probably are probably already lost to him.
Read the full article at:
http://www.alternet.org/newsandviews/article/794589/santorum%3A_mainline_protestant_churches_are_in_the_grip_of_satan/#paragraph3
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So each GOP Nom has had the lead and has basically lost it by the fatal Foot-in-mouth virus... Now what is the GOP going to do?
Santorum comes from the fundie branch of Catholicism in that the Catholic Church is the "One True Church" and you can only find salvation through it. 
