Last year, Gordon Klingenschmitt was elected to a seat in the Colorado House of Representatives, despite the fact that he was a long-time Religious Right activist with a well-documented history of making outrageous statements. Unsurprisingly, Klingenschmitt’s tenure in office has been racked with controversy precisely because he has continued to make those sorts of statements, but that did not dissuade Republican presidential hopeful Rick Santorum from agreeing to be interviewed by Klingenschmitt for his daily “Pray In Jesus Name” program.
Klingenschmitt managed to interview Santorum when he was recently campaigning in the state and ask him about Indiana’s effort to pass a law that would have granted business owners the right to discriminate against customers, particularly gay ones, in the name of “religious liberty.”
Santorum falsely claimed that the original Indiana law was merely designed to protect religious “employees from discrimination at the workplace” and lamented that “those who are defending religious liberty backed down, they’re not willing to take the fight and be called all sorts of names and take the blows for standing up for religious liberty in the face of a media onslaught that doesn’t care about the truth.”
