In other words, Kerry is totally unprincipled.
He says life begins at conception but will do nothing to safeguard defenseless lives in utero. So it's safe to assume Kerry does not place a priority on defending lives in peril.
Besides, he's got it bass ackwards: separation of church and state was intended to keep government out of religion, not religion out of government.
No, you have only got it half right. It is much more preposterous than that. He believes life begins at conception but instead of doing what you said he is doing "nothing to safeguard" he is actively campaigning FOR infanticide. He was one of the few, if I remember correctly, campaigning actively and passionately FOR partial birth abortion.
Liberalism is a religion.
It has articles of faith and sacraments. For the past two decades liberals have been tryng to make liberalism the state religion of the US. Under the guise of "separating church and state," they have systematically been removing any reference to (our) God from public view. It is only (our) God that may not be mentioned. Their God (government control of all aspects of our life) is praised continually. We need to tell our friends that the reason we cannot argue with liberals is because it is virtually impossible to rationalize anyone away from the dogmas of their faith.
Since it is their religion, John Kerry, perhaps under the influence of being in an actual church on Sunday, committed a heresy to the religion of Liberalism, when he said Life begins at conception.
We can point out to liberal acquaintances that Kerry is a heretic, who said that he believes the unborn is a "life.". We can also argue that he cannot be trusted to always vote their way, if he is "unclear" on such a primary article of their faith = a fetus is just protoplasm, and the property of the woman carrying it, to be dispensed with as she wishes.