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Posted at 01:21 PM ET, 02/09/2012

Rick Santorum: I was called a ‘theocrat’ for being pro-life


Republican presidential candidate former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum speaks to pastors during a meeting at Bella Donna Chapel at Adriatica in McKinney, Texas, on Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2012. (Vernon Bryant - AP)

QUOTE OF THE DAY: “To actually do anything [about abortion], then you were a theocrat. You were the pastor-in-chief. You are this radical that wants to try to force your views on everybody else and try to moralize everybody. All you’re doing is standing up for the dignity of every human life, but that doesn’t matter.”

-Rick Santorum at a Feb 8, 2012 pastors’ gathering, on the criticism he faced in Congress for his socially conservative beliefs.

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By On Faith and Georgetown  |  01:21 PM ET, 02/09/2012

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