St. Santorum was again making the rounds this morning, essentially arguing that the State should be subordinate to the Church, which it would be in Rick's splendiferous City of Jerusalem, but of course never will be in the wicked Barack's City of Babylon.
It is a downright eerie experience to listen to Santorum's fanatical contempt for America's secular constitutionalism -- the Founders' hallmark separation from the world's exceedingly troubled history of imposing competing versions of what are in reality the Unknown's unknowable desires on mankind's intimately knowable condition.
The greatest irony of the ecclesiastically orthodox Santorum Mind? His, he would tell you, is vast and breathtakingly starry by virtue of its association with God's vastness Itself; yet the small, secularly petty mind might ask what in God's name the Supreme Court was thinking when, for example, in Reynolds v. United States (1878), it outlawed polygamy. To the narrow-minded(?), State interference into assorted marital arrangements -- and this obviously goes for gays and lesbians, too; and perhaps less obviously for men and (i.e., on) dogs, if the two so freely choose -- is the very species of earthly interference for which God created civil libertarianism.
The irony, in short, is that the more expansively religious the mind, the smaller it usually is.