Alan Colmes Loosens His Filter  Rick Santorum’s Catholicism runs
to the fervent, and can discompose people whose faith is
nominative at best. As one who believes in charity as a divine
command, I’m going to offer that as an explanation for Alan
Colmes’ cheap shot about Santorum bringing his dead son home in
1996 before taking him to the funeral home. (h/t: Memeorandum).
In all likelihood, Colmes simply experienced a visceral reaction
to the oddness of treating a dead child like a member of the
family, if only to say good-bye.  There is nothing specifically
Catholic about saying good-bye to a dead baby, but it comes from
the wellspring of Santorum’s faith. A dead child is still,
however briefly, a child, a son, a brother. Santorum will always
be that child’s father, and he believes implicitly that, should
he attain Paradise, his dead son will be there, welcoming him.
Inasmuch as our society regards the dead as waste, to be
disposed of with a minimum of fuss, what Santorum did was odd.
But I get it. And, after