What Santorum wrote in his Inquirer column

From "The Elephant in the Room," Rick Santorum's column in The Inquirer:

On Democrats' opposition tobanning partial birth abortion (April 2007):

"Can you imagine their response if we were talking about banning the euthanizing of puppies by stabbing them with scissors at the base of their skulls and suctioning their brains out?"

On Mitt Romney's speech about his Mormon faith, December 2007:

"Unlike John F. Kennedy in 1960, he didn't cop out and say his faith does not matter. Romney gave an impressive defense of the believer's right to be engaged in politics. He also exposed the danger in secularist attempts to drive religion from our public life. ... I'm more concerned about losing our children to jihadis or a materialistic culture than losing them to Mormonism."

On climate change, March 2008:

"[T]oo many global-warming zealots appear to worship the creation instead of the Creator and view man and his actions as only suspect disrupters of nature."

On why the war on terror should be called a war against "Islamic fascism," May 2008:

"Our government...is teaching us a politically correct version of the truth. For example, it tells us that democracy and Islam are compatible. But Islam is less compatible with democracy than is Christianity."

On human stem-cell research, March 2009:

"Obama, with his customary eloquence, has just taken us another step toward a world in which 'science' trumps morality and sense, a world in which right or wrong, ethical or unethical has no place in the pursuit of 'progress.'"

Before President Obama's inauguration, January 2009:

"There is an air of something big, something grand, something electric about to explode upon us. Barack Obama's visage is everywhere. His relaxed and reassuring - even beatific - smile is omnipresent. So are his irrepressibly cute girls and their together mom."