Guest commentary: Catholic candidate Rick Santorum is
evangelical progress  The Muskegon Chronicle By The Muskegon
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10, 2012 at 3:41 PM  By Noah Feldman  God so loves Barack Obama
that He sent His servant, Rick Santorum, to ensure his re-
election as U.S. president.  Or so it seemed in the immediate
aftermath of the Iowa caucuses. Soon the inevitable slings and
arrows will trouble Santorum’s outrageous fortune. But for the
moment, the former Pennsylvania senator has emerged as the
candidate of the evangelicals just in time for a frontloaded
primaries schedule heading fast into South Carolina, where the
values voters stopped John McCain in 2000. And for the moment,
Santorum is the person standing between Mitt Romney and the
Republican nomination.  Why are religious conservatives sour on
Romney? It is of course plausible that they distrust the former
Massachusetts governor’s core conservatism. Perhaps they object
to his elite credentials as the son of