Rick Santorum is upset that teachers in public schools are using class time to teach things like math and arithmetic rather than the truth of Rick’s particular religion, and Santorum has a solution. If we just call secularism a religion, then we can ban it from schools!

Oh, Rick.

“I think we should start calling secularism a religion,” Santorum told a grinning Fischer. “Because if we did, then we could ban that, too, because that’s what they’ve done: they’ve hidden behind the fact that the absence of religion is not a religion of itself.”

Because it’s not a religion. The absence of food is not a diet, the absence of money is not wealth, the absence of hair is not a hair color, etc. Nobody’s hiding behind that fact, they’re acknowledging that clear and obvious fact.

The former Pennsylvania senator, who partnered with Fischer’s organization in the making of his newest “docudrama,” argued that secularism has “moral teachers” that should classify it as a religion.

Having moral teachers is not the definition of a religion. If a teacher tells her students that stealing is bad, she’s not religious, she’s just moral.

“The idea that, if you take religion out of the public square, you take the Bible out of the classroom, that that’s neutral. Well no, that’s not neutral,” Santorum argued. “It’s a different worldview.”

How is not making any assertions about religion a different worldview? If teachers were telling students that there is no god or that Allah is the one true god, then you’d have a different worldview. But not saying shit is neutrality.

Please let this man run for president. Santorum/Palin 2016!