What does it actually cost to be a serious Catholic in public life? Rick Santorum ran as a homeschooling, large-family, openly Catholic conservative in Pennsylvania and won the state when his own presidential candidate lost it. He explains why authenticity proved more durable than calculation, revisits his early fight against same-sex marriage at a moment when his colleagues refused to vote on it, and reflects on his prediction — made over twenty years ago — that transgenderism would follow, and that redefining marriage would ultimately unmake it.

Chapters
00:00 A countercultural Catholic family in public life
01:52 Winning Pennsylvania in 2000 while Bush lost it
03:06 Authenticity as political capital
05:59 Predicting transgenderism two decades ago
07:51 Marriage rates and the consequences of redefinition

Watch the full episode here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYpZCFS9SHg

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Host: Mary Margaret Olohan
Guest: Senator Rick Santorum
Film Crew: Cavern Collective
Production Team: Arcadia Digital

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