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Helen Thomas: Keep relgion out of politics
Sacramento Bee ^ | 12/14/7 | Helen Thomas

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 ...


TOPICS: Editorial; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: asusualheleniswrong; dryupandblowaway; goawayhelen; helenthomas; liberalmeathead; publicsquare
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To: lonestar67

81 posted on 12/14/2007 11:51:30 AM PST by seanmerc
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To: SmithL

Ms. Thomas’s religion is liberalism. No more need be said.


82 posted on 12/14/2007 11:54:17 AM PST by mtntop3
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To: xzins

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.


83 posted on 12/14/2007 11:59:20 AM PST by BritExPatInFla
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To: SmithL

Why?

The atheists and hedonists don’t.


84 posted on 12/14/2007 11:59:56 AM PST by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: reagan_fanatic

That’s not a nose, it’s a giant squid.


85 posted on 12/14/2007 12:09:20 PM PST by rfp1234 (Mundus vult decipi: the world wants to be deceived. ---James Branch Cabell)
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To: JamesP81
You beat me to it--great minds etc.

vaudine

86 posted on 12/14/2007 12:11:10 PM PST by vaudine (RO)
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To: SmithL
James Madison wrote:

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

87 posted on 12/14/2007 12:27:28 PM PST by Ken H
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To: SmithL
Alexander Hamilton:

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

88 posted on 12/14/2007 12:35:01 PM PST by Ken H
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To: seanmerc

Yeah, that’s it.


89 posted on 12/14/2007 1:18:22 PM PST by lonestar67 (Its time to withdraw from the War on Bush-- your side is hopelessly lost in a quagmire.)
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To: SmithL

I vote we keep the ugly out of the press.


90 posted on 12/14/2007 1:58:31 PM PST by Alex Murphy ("Therefore the prudent keep silent at that time, for it is an evil time." - Amos 5:13)
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To: Antoninus
This is the religion of Helen Thomas. If my dog had a face like hers, I'd shave his butt and teach him to walk backwards.
91 posted on 12/14/2007 5:12:58 PM PST by Vigilanteman (Are there any men left in Washington? Or are there only cowards? Ahmad Shah Massoud)
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Link to the religion of Helen Thomas, repaired.
92 posted on 12/14/2007 5:15:12 PM PST by Vigilanteman (Are there any men left in Washington? Or are there only cowards? Ahmad Shah Massoud)
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Link to the religion of Helen Thomas, repaired.
93 posted on 12/14/2007 5:17:16 PM PST by Vigilanteman (Are there any men left in Washington? Or are there only cowards? Ahmad Shah Massoud)
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To: reagan_fanatic

...she looks like arafat in that pic...well, after all she is an arab.


94 posted on 12/15/2007 12:54:09 AM PST by Fred Nerks (FAIR DINKUM!)
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To: Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus

“Socialism” means government control of the means of production (i.e. fiscal statism). Invest in a dictionary.


95 posted on 12/17/2007 6:18:23 AM PST by steve-b (Sin lies only in hurting others unnecessarily. All other "sins" are invented nonsense. --RAH)
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To: Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus
If you want to keep the coalition, you need to foreswear Big Government and make it clear that social problems can only be addressed by social (i.e. persuasion and example) solutions.

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.

96 posted on 12/17/2007 6:20:25 AM PST by steve-b (Sin lies only in hurting others unnecessarily. All other "sins" are invented nonsense. --RAH)
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To: Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus

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).


97 posted on 12/17/2007 6:23:01 AM PST by steve-b (Sin lies only in hurting others unnecessarily. All other "sins" are invented nonsense. --RAH)
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To: SmithL
Well, I do support keeping relgion out of politics.

I also support keeping Helen Thomas out of politics :P

98 posted on 12/17/2007 6:25:05 AM PST by Calpernia (Hunters Rangers - Raising the Bar of Integrity http://www.barofintegrity.us)
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To: dragonblustar
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99 posted on 12/17/2007 6:29:36 AM PST by Calpernia (Hunters Rangers - Raising the Bar of Integrity http://www.barofintegrity.us)
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To: Calpernia
And the Bee still hasn't fixed their Headline.
100 posted on 12/17/2007 6:50:40 AM PST by SmithL (I don't do Barf Alerts, you're old enough to read and decide for yourself)
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