TPM:
"Rick Santorum described on Monday the Obama Administration's decision not to defend the Defense of Marriage Act as "a dagger in the heart" of 1777, when the Continental Army "was struggling to muster shoes and victory," and Thomas Jefferson and James Madison were fighting for religious freedom.

Santorum, who may run for president in 2012, made the following argument today in an op-ed for the Des Moines Register:

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