It Takes a Family: Little Platoon Seminar with Rick Santorum

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April 01-01, 2023
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Pittsburgh, PA
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10 a.m. - 1 p.m.

It Takes a Family

When Hillary Clinton wrote her 1996 It Takes a Village, many knew that the village of which she wrote was anything and everything except for the family, and would ultimately corrupt our youth for generations to come. Leading the charge against the village came Rick Santorum, former Senator and candidate for the Republican nomination for President of the United States in 2012 and 2016. Senator Santorum knew that the most basic and fundamental unit of society is the family, whose duty it is to rear children into well-rounded, well-educated, virtuous men and women and responsible citizens. Thus he penned his 2005 response to Clinton’s book–It Takes a Family. 

Eighteen years later and Santorum’s message is needed now more than ever. Institutions including government and big business regularly undermine the role of the family. Depictions of fatherhood in television and film cast fathers as incompetent buffoons. Now is the time to double-down on the utter necessity and importance of the Family in renewing and creating a culture–both socially and politically–favoring the strongest and most fundamental unit of all historical societies–The Family.

Pittsburgh-area undergraduate students are highly encouraged to join the Intercollegiate Studies Institute and Senator Rick Santorum this April 1st in Pittsburgh, PA to garner a better understanding of where we stand on this matter, where we’re headed, and how to redirect the course.

Complimentary copies of Senator Santorum’s It Takes a Family will be available to accepted and attending students.

 

Contact Ashley Kondracki at akondracki@isi.org with any questions. 

Rick Santorum

A native of Pennsylvania, Rick Santorum was a candidate for the Republican nomination for President of the United States in 2016, 2012, and became known as a voice for conservatives who didn’t feel their voice was being represented. His grassroots approach to campaigning – including visiting every one of Iowa’s 99 counties and his stunning victory in the Iowa caucuses – catapulted him to frontrunner status where he ultimately won 11 states and 3 million votes during the Republican primary process.

In June, 2012 Rick Santorum launched Patriot Voices, a grassroots and online community of Americans committed to promoting faith, family, freedom and opportunity.

Prior to running for President, Rick served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1991 to 1995, and in the U.S. Senate from 1995 to 2007 where he was known as one of the most successful government reformers in our history. Rick took on Washington’s powerful special interests from the moment he arrived in our nation’s Capitol in 1991. Along with John Boehner and Jim Nussle, Rick was a member of the “Gang of Seven” that exposed the Congressional Banking and Congressional Post Office scandals. It was this record of reform that prompted a Washington Post reporter to write that “Santorum was a tea party kind of guy before there was a tea party.”

He wrote and championed legislation that outlawed the heinous procedure known as Partial Birth Abortion as well as the “Born Alive Infants Protection Act,” the “Unborn Victims of Violence Act,” and the “Combating Autism Act” because he believes each and every individual has value and the most vulnerable in our society need to be protected.

 An accomplished author, Rick Santorum penned the 2005 New York Times best seller It Takes a Family.

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