Santorum says JFK's statement did "great damage" (from 3-15-2011)

[kentuck]

http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/03/santorum-kennedy-was-radical-for-believing-in-church-vs-state.php

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Rick Santorum told about 50 members of the group Catholic Citizenship that he was “frankly appalled” that America’s first Catholic president, John F. Kennedy, once said “I believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute.”

“That was a radical statement,” Santorum said, and did “great damage.”

The Boston Globe reports that Santorum, who is Catholic, criticized the increased secularization of politicians, which he related back to a speech Kennedy gave at the Greater Houston Ministerial Association in 1960. Kennedy had made the speech to a group of Protestant clergy as a presidential candidate, in order to allay fears that the Catholic church would influence his decisions if elected.

“We’re seeing how Catholic politicians, following the first Catholic president, have followed his lead, and have divorced faith not just from the public square, but from their own decision-making process,” Santorum said Monday.

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[Justice wanted]

1. Hey RICKY boy EXPLAIN the first Amendment to me! Where in your VERSION of the Constitituion

does the First Amendment say it is okay to have a merger of Church and state?

[Arkansas Granny]

3. They are all about the founding fathers and what they intended the Constitution to be, that is

until it conflicts with what they want it to be.

[phantom power]

2. Rick, the Dark Ages called, they want their theocracy back

[LiberalEsto]

4. JFK was hardly the first president to support separation of church and state

Methinks our nation's founders built that principle into the Constitution.

Makes you wonder if Little Ricky ever read the Constitution.

[Javaman]

5. in other news: ass froth is still stupid. nt

[spanone]

6. mr santorum is a dangerous theocrat.

[DCKit]

7. I hear Saudi Arabia has a nice theocracy Ricky. nt

[maxrandb]

8. Politicians have "DIVORCED" their faith???

Is that a shot at Newty boy, Rick?

I have a suggestion. Let's tie Santorum to a huge rock and throw him in the river. If he floats, he's holy...if he doesn't...

[Fawke Em]

9. What increase in secularization of politicians?

I haven't seen any.

Of course, that could be anecdotal.

[hobbit709]

10. Hey Frothboy, remember when JFK was questioned about being Catholic?

[Octafish]

11. Santorum really is stupid.

What's that say for the state of Pennsylvania, which admitted him to the bar?

[renie408]

12. Naturally he doesn't relate it back to the Treaty of Tripoli, in 1796. Moron. n/t

[Spider Jerusalem]

13. At a time when Klansmen and Birchers and all sorts of right wingers...

were saying a Catholic president would be controlled from the Vatican? Santorum clearly lacks any understanding of history.