Posted on 12/14/2007 8:05:43 AM PST by SmithL
Let's keep religion out of the presidential campaign, if possible.
I say, to each his own. Let's rejoice that the founding fathers established a secular nation and that no one has to publicly defend his or her beliefs.
Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney -- put on the defensive because of his Mormon faith -- recently felt compelled to explain his religion to skeptical voters.
So he tore a page out of John F. Kennedy's 1960 campaign appearance before a group of Protestant ministers in Houston.
At the time, Kennedy, a Roman Catholic, had to dispel rumors that he would be taking orders from the Vatican if he won the presidency.
Kennedy assured the protestant clergy that the pope would have no place in his presidency. He won the day when he told the ministers that when his brother Joe Kennedy's plane disappeared over the English channel during World War II, no one asked what his religion was.
Last week, Romney delivered his religion speech at the George H.W. Bush Library at College Station, Texas, and pledged he would not allow any authorities of the Mormon church "exert influence" on his presidential decisions. "I will serve no one religion," he declared.
Romney is in a tough fight for the GOP presidential nomination with former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, a Baptist minister, and former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani.
Huckabee is tough on illegal immigrants -- but in the past favored schooling for their children.
A conservative, Huckabee opposes abortion and, at one time, wanted to isolate HIV/AIDS patients. He also supports a federal ban on gay marriage and advocates teaching creationism alongside evolution in schools.
(Excerpt) Read more at sacbee.com ...
Ms. Thomas’s religion is liberalism. No more need be said.
Interestingly, she mentions Huckabee’s belief in creationism over evolution.
Isn’t that a religious belief?
Creationism a religious belief? Yep. from what I’ve read here, you can’t be religious and accept the science behind evolution. If you want to declare yourself as being ‘religious’ you must accept the tales that are at the root of creationism.
Why?
The atheists and hedonists don’t.
That’s not a nose, it’s a giant squid.
vaudine
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.
--http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/documents/amendI_religions64.html
But a minute detail of particular rights is certainly far less applicable to a constitution like that under consideration, which is merely intended to regulate the general political interests of the nation, than to a constitution which has the regulation of every species of personal and private concerns.
Federalist, no. 84, 575--81
28 May 1788
Yeah, that’s it.
I vote we keep the ugly out of the press.
...she looks like arafat in that pic...well, after all she is an arab.
“Socialism” means government control of the means of production (i.e. fiscal statism). Invest in a dictionary.
Otherwise, you're just another parasitic bum sitting on his arse waiting for the guvmint gimme so you don't have to do any work.
Nixon was a Big Government liberal who drove out the fiscal conservative faction. If Reagan hadn’t brought them back, the GOP would be a permanent minority party (if it survived at all).
I also support keeping Helen Thomas out of politics :P
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