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To: Mariner

Wrong. Separation of Church and State is not constitutional. Santorum knows this. JFK spoke that Protestant pastors shouldn’t tell their congregations how to vote. That statement tells me that JFK did not understand the first amendment.


2 posted on 02/28/2012 8:19:04 PM PST by impimp
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To: impimp
And Rick Santorum said the church should have a role in the operation of the state.

Please address that issue.

6 posted on 02/28/2012 8:31:04 PM PST by Mariner (u)
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To: impimp
Separation of Church and State is not constitutional.

"Strongly guarded as is the separation between Religion & Govt in the Constitution of the United States, the danger of encroachment by Ecclesiastical Bodies may be illustrated by precedents already furnished in their short history."

James Madison

http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/documents/amendI_religions64.html

14 posted on 02/28/2012 8:44:56 PM PST by Ken H (Austerity is the irresistible force. Entitlements are the immovable object.)
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To: impimp

JFK’s remarks on the SCS fallacy were more than abrasive. Santorum obviously wasn’t thinking about the Presidency when he hyperventilated into that brown paper bag. Two dorks.


20 posted on 02/28/2012 9:07:15 PM PST by Gene Eric (Newt/Sarah 2012)
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To: impimp

That is a green light to Muslims.


38 posted on 02/28/2012 9:38:23 PM PST by SatinDoll (No Foreign Naionals as our President!)
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To: impimp

JFK was trying to assure Protestant ministers that he wasn’t going to take orders from the Pope. People today forget the times. In 1960, in many regions of the US, Catholicism was looked at in much the same light as say Mormonism. It was Evangelicals, a term I believe not used at the time, but correct me if I’m wrong, who wanted to hear those words from JFK before they would consider voting for him.


46 posted on 02/28/2012 9:47:03 PM PST by gusty
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