Presidential candidate Rick Santorum has come under fire lately for his comments attacking President Obama’s religion. So where else does anyone go in need of some Republican Rehab but the Hannity show? It was the perfect place for Santorum last night. As Sean “I’m not a birther, I just think Obama should produce his birth certificate and get it over with” Hannity insisted Santorum never questioned Obama’s faith (and blamed liberals for even suggesting such a thing), Santorum assured viewers he never questioned whether or not Obama’s a Christian, just what kind of Christian he is.

In his introduction to the lengthy interview, Hannity said, “Some on the left accused presidential candidate Rick Santorum of questioning Barack Obama’s Christian values… Now (Santorum) very openly admits that he accepts the fact that the president is a Christian.”

Not exactly a ringing endorsement of Obama’s faith, but OK. Hannity went on to play a clip of Santorum saying Saturday (2/18/20),

“It doesn’t fit his pattern of trying to drive down consumption, trying to drive up your cost of transportation to accomplish his political-science goal of reducing carbon dioxide emissions… It’s not about you… It’s not about your quality of life. It’s not about your jobs. It’s about some phony ideal, some phony theology. Oh, not a theology based on the Bible, a different theology. But no less a theology.”

Merriam Webster defines “theology” as “the study of religious faith, practice, and experience; especially : the study of God and of God’s relation to the world.”

But to Special Victim Hannity, any accusation that Santorum was questioning Obama’s faith was just so unfair! He sneered that liberals have “ignored the fact” that Santorum was talking about “radical environmentalism” and not religion. “Instead, they’re turning this into a political football,” he whined.

But Hannity was doing some ignoring of his own. Later that same day, Santorum took direct aim at Obama’s faith while asserting at the same time that he wasn’t. As CNN reported,

Santorum told reporters that the message he was trying to convey was that the president merely holds “different moral values.”

“You may want to call it a theology, you may want to call it secular values,” he said. “Whatever you want to call it. . . it is a different set of moral values that they are imposing on people who have a constitutional right to have their own values within the church.”

…Responding to a separate question on whether he disagrees with Obama when the president calls himself a Christian, Santorum said “If the president says he’s a Christian, he’s a Christian.”

It was the same strategy Santorum employed last night:

Santorum railed to Hannity about Obama’s “radical environmental agenda” and complained that he “holds to this higher power” (meaning environmentalism) that nonetheless “obviously has nothing to do with the president’s faith.”

Hannity, doing his part for the cause, said, “Didn’t you on numerous other occasions… say that you believe he’s a Christian? …How many times do you think you’ve said that on the campaign trail and elsewhere?”

Santorum replied, “Just about every time… Look, he went to Rev. Wright’s church for 20 years. You can question what kind of theology Rev. Wright has but it’s a Christian church… He says he’s a Christian… Look, I’m not going to question what the President believes in when it comes to his faith but I am going to question what he’s doing in this country… at the behest of a bunch of radical environmentalists.”

Hannity didn’t utter a peep in objection to such a faith-based attack.