Ann Coulter is right on everything, so, she must be right on this...
Posted on 09/27/2015 10:44:12 PM PDT by Citizen Zed
Can a Roman Catholic be president of the United States? Silly question, right? Sixty-five years have passed since John F. Kennedy went from Mass at Holy Trinity in Georgetown to take his inauguration oath on the Fitzgerald family Bible; and, while there are plenty of grounds on which to criticize that priapic shyster, his faith isn't one of them.
Go back to the early days of the republic, though, and you find a very different attitude. John Jay, one of the Founding Fathers, who went on to become the first U.S. chief justice, argued that his home state of New York should extend full toleration to every sect "except the professors of the religion of the Church of Rome, who ought not to hold lands in, or be admitted to a participation of the civil rights enjoyed by the members of this state."
What made John Jay so skeptical? The same thing that makes many Americans skeptical about this hypothetical Muslim presidential candidate about which we keep reading so much. Jay had no problem with Catholic beliefs. He didn't complain about priestly celibacy or transubstantiation. What worried him, rather, was the idea that Catholics wouldn't be properly patriotic; that they might, in the last analysis, have divided loyalties.
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Catholics wouldn’t be properly patriotic;...
I manage to do it pretty easily :)
Lovely, it’s spring of 1960 again.
People worried JFK would have the pope on the hotline. They should have worried more about his bookies and pimps, err brothers, whatever he called them...
65 years???? I don't think it has been quite that long yet.
Well, skip that. Apparently there are enough Catholics that are willing to support unfunded federal mandates like ObamaCare, force Catholic institutions to provide birth control and support abortion because, you see, the Catholic Church seem to do nothing to punish their heretics.
Anybody have information about...
The last time catholics blew up airliners?
The last time catholics beheaded anyone?
The last time catholics burned anyone alive?
The last time catholics locked anyone in a cage and drowned them?
The last time catholics cut someone's head off on video and distributed the video worldwise?
I have the ultimate mass murderers to worry about.
I'll worry about insane killer catholics later.
John Jay proposed this amendment to the New York constitution in 1777, so technically it wasn't in the "early days of the republic". John Jay was not selected as a delegate to the Constitutional Convention. Article VI of the Constitution prohibits any religious test for public office.
The Supreme Court is entirely Catholic or Jewish
If I was Catholic I’d be more worried about a politically correct socialist Pope who barely mentioned Christ
And quit trying to be victims
It’s stupid
Well there was the IRA.
People worried JFK would have the pope on the hotline. They should have worried more about his bookies and pimps, err brothers, whatever he called them...
Watch the speech (12 September 1960).
JFK basically fulfilled Dr. Carson's conditions as to who is suitable to serve.
Ann Coulter is right on everything, so, she must be right on this...
Ann who????
That old bag?
He must have used common core math:
40 + 15 = 65
I am sure that is right.
Oh YES! You beat me to it. I was just thinking the same thing when I read post #6. Also, I seem to remember something about "the inquisition" as well when protestants were tortured and put to horrible deaths for something as innocent as possessing and reading a Bible or daring to worship the All Mighty God differently than the Catholic Magisterium dictated.
Apparently math wasn’t his strong point.
LOL, it was the first thing that jumped out at me.
You’re “remembering” things that never actually happened, then. Does your “memory” include the hundreds of Catholics executed under Elizabeth and James I in England whose “crime” amounted to nothing more than hearing Mass and shielding priests from certain death so that they could?
Plenty of Catholics have been patriotic enough to bleed and die on the battlefield for this country. Fine thanks they get from the neo-Know Nothing crowd.
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