Skip to main content

Rick Santorum's "Constitutional Illiteracy?"

May 11th, 2011 | 2 min read

By Andrew Walker

Jennifer Rubin, The Washington Post’s conservative beat reporter, has an all-out assault on Rick Santorum’s constitutional views—going so far as to call him “constitutionally illiterate” and “un-conservative" when Santorum suggested that a so-called “truce” on social issues is a gross misunderstanding of American political life. While Rubin’s insult strikes me as an extreme and unnecessary barb on Santorum, Rubin’s own constitutional milieu is just as equally troubled.

Login to read more

Sign in or create a free account to access Subscriber-only content. 

Sign in

Register

Andrew Walker

Andrew T. Walker is an Associate Professor of Christian Ethics at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary.