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A quick Google search indicates that Santorum said those words during an interview on NPR in the summer of 2005. Multiple references to that interview online. Couldn't find the audio, didn't look that hard.
Thing is, Goldwater was right. These folks are so consumed by their religion - or, perhaps better, their interpretation of their religion - that they don't seem to understand anything outside of their little world. Okay, knock yerselves out, go for it.
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And just think, at the time Goldwater was considered extremist
Goldwater had to deal with the John Birch Society types who would welcome Santorum for his current views