Whether it is supporting the Catholic Church against accusation of shielding child molesters or Penn State, former Senator Rick Santorum has shown that his beliefs in family values are nothing more than dust on his tongue. Santorum told Dallas-Ft Worth’s KSKY 660 AM that he disagrees with the Freeh Report and denies the overwhelming evidence- some of which came out in court- of wrong doing by Joe Paterno, Graham Spanier and others.

Santorum stated that:

I actually read the Freeh Report. I don’t know if you did or not, but I did. And, my concern with the Freeh report, a lot of the conclusions in the Freeh report aren’t matched by the evidence that they presented and so I’ve been talking to a lot of folks at Penn State and they say, ‘you’re just gonna have to wait for the criminal trial of these two guys at Penn State.’ I think there is going to be a whole new line set on what really went on there. So I’m sort of sitting back and waiting for the facts to come out as opposed to at least I’m being told is a version of the facts. … Let’s get the truth. So I think we’re going to see some things come up a little different in the next six months. I just want to make sure we get it right.

Back in March, Santorum was asked about the Catholic Church and child sexual abuse and he dismissively stated that “My job is not to grade the Catholic Church — it [is] to talk about what I’d do as president of the United States … I am concerned about protecting children.”

The Freeh Report found that “nothing was done and Sandusky was allowed to continue with impunity.” The reason why this was concluded was that, as ThinkProgress points out, “the report parsed 3.5 million emails and conducted around 430 interviews. A number of emails arrayed in the report’s timeline of events confirm that Paterno, Spanier, and others had been presented with strong evidence of Sandusky’s actions and yet still decided to sweep the events under the rug”

In the trial of Sandusky, it came out that several people including several janitors found out about the abuse but did not report it.

Santorum is a Penn State alum.