GOP frontrunners Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum are continuing to pressure President Obama on issues of religious freedom, and they apparently have the support of conservative political pundits.

Grove City College political science professor, Dr. Paul Kengor, in an email interview with The Christian Post said the reason Santorum and the other GOP leaders were standing firm in defending religious freedom, it was because Democrats were forcing the issue.

“He’s being led by President Obama into this issue,” wrote Kengor. “Rick Santorum, like tens of millions of committed Roman Catholics and evangelicals, has been pushed into this arena by President Obama, compliments of the HHS mandate.”

“Like the Catholic Church generally, from the bishops to the laity, he didn’t ask for this fight. The fight came to him. He and other Catholics simply want the freedom of conscience they’ve always had in this nation — until President Obama assaulted them with this executive decree. Obama’s fiat was handed down from the mountaintop in Washington, a commandment to Catholics with no room for compromise.”

The religious freedom issue became front and center when President Obama announced a mandate by saying that employers were required to provide free birth control to all women – even employers whose religious beliefs prohibit the use of contraception.

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