On Sunday evening, Rick Santorum joined Family Research Council President for an event at Perkins’ home church, Greenwell Springs Baptist Church, in Louisiana where Santorum and Perkins were seated on stage as Pastor Dennis Terry declared that America “was founded as a Christian nation” and those that disagree with him should “get out!”:
I don’t care what the liberals say, I don’t care what the naysayers say, this nation was founded as a Christian nation, the God of Abraham, the God of Issac, and the God of Jacob, there’s only one God. There’s only one God and his name is Jesus.
I’m tired of people telling me that I can’t say those words. I’m tired of people telling us, as Christians, that we can’t voice our beliefs or we can no longer pray in public. Listen to me, if you don’t love America and you don’t like the way we do things, I got one thing to say: Get Out!
This outburst has, not surprisingly, generated a good bit of news and forced Santorum to try to distance himself from Terry.
Yesterday, WBRZ news in Baton Rouge interviewed Terry about the controversy he has created and, of course, he responded by claiming that “people are misquoting” what he said and “twisted and edited” his words because all he meant was that “I love America”:
You will notice that Terry never explains how he had been misquoted or had his words twisted …. and that is probably because the original video of Terry telling liberals and all others who don’t share his right-wing views that they should “get out” of the country clearly speaks for itself.
