[BuckeyeTexan]

That’s an election-losing comment from Santorum.

[DannyTN]

Margarite Thatcher pretty much said the same thing. Something about all of the west’s sense of morality and rights were rooted in Christianity.

[massgopguy]

Last September my Knights of Columbus Council sponsored a 10th Anniversary Day of Remembrance at our Parish. After ceremonies at the two city halls of the cities we serve. Dignitaries held a Procession to our Parish for a Blue Mass and a Pancake Breakfast for 1st responders. You guessed it. A local Rabbi complained that this was a violation of the “Separation of Church and State”. Both city halls responded that the Blue Mass is a KOC tradition of supporting Fire and Police departments and were INVITED by the council. It was suggested that if the Rabbi wanted to participate by having a portion of the day at his Synagogue the city would be glad to attend. It was also part of an overall Day of Remembrance in which other groups sponsored other events during the day.

[massgopguy]

Last September my Knights of Columbus Council sponsored a 10th Anniversary Day of Remembrance at our Parish. After ceremonies at the two city halls of the cities we serve. Dignitaries held a Procession to our Parish for a Blue Mass and a Pancake Breakfast for 1st responders. You guessed it. A local Rabbi complained that this was a violation of the “Separation of Church and State”. Both city halls responded that the Blue Mass is a KOC tradition of supporting Fire and Police departments and were INVITED by the council. It was suggested that if the Rabbi wanted to participate by having a portion of the day at his Synagogue the city would be glad to attend. It was also part of an overall Day of Remembrance in which other groups sponsored other events during the day.

[DannyTN]

Margarite Thatcher pretty much said the same thing. Something about all of the west’s sense of morality and rights were rooted in Christianity.

But if y’all want sodomy, polygamy and beastiality, then go ahead and insist on a strict separation. And let the liberal judges decide the issue.

[Sacajaweau]

IIRC, it was about his personal religion and his presidential role.

Was he right? Let's be real...

the guy was a male *****, mamma was a gold digger, daddy was a runner, bro couldn't save Mary Jo, auntie was an alcoholic, cousin was a rapist.......

There was a BIG separation!!!

[The_Reader_David]

If the left were sincere about a “wall” of separation between church and state, it would be less objectionable. (I would note as an Orthodox Christian, some of us Christians actually like the Supreme Court decision banning state-sponsored prayer in schools, as it was only that decision that put a stop to U.S. government policy of forcing Orthodox Christian native Alaskan children to attend boarding schools where government-sponsored efforts were made to convert them to protestantism.)

Walls don’t move. Unfortunately, the left’s”wall” is more akin to a bulldozer blade, than to a wall, with the state is driving the bulldozer, and pushing the church out of whatever space the state fancies occupying, as the Obama abortifacient mandate shows.

[paudio]

I think separation of church and state is absolute in institutional sense. Church or clergies don’t have any ex officio seats in any formal type and level of political institutions, unlike in British, for instance, where the CoE still has official ties with the state. I wonder if that’s what Kennedy had in mind. Santorum talks about individual involvement of religious people in political affairs, which covered by the 1st Amendment. This should not be even an issue, but liberals often blur the line. If a Republican candidate gives speech in a church, they cry about the separation of church and state. Ignoring the regular appearances of Democrats in Black churches.

[Tailgunner Joe]

“Separation of Church and state” isn’t in the US Constitution, it’s from the Soviet Constitution liberals believe in.