American Politics & People of Faith (speech summary)

By Richard Potts, The Media Project staff | August 1, 2008
 
The
American press corps is ignorant of religious faith and sees it as
bizarre and irrelevant to public life, said former Senator Rick
Santorum in a speech to the The Media Project’s course on
religion and politics in Washington, DC. The press proved its
ignorance to Santorum when TIME Magazine named
him, an outspoken Catholic Christian, to its list of “Most
Influential Evangelicals” in 2005. 
 
“The idea of TIME Magazine naming me one of the top-25
evangelicals was sort of funny, if it wasn’t so pathetic that they
don’t even understand what they’re talking about,” Santorum said.