What JFK said ought to make anyone throw up. He effectively said that his religion had nothing to do with how he would govern. In other words, his religion is something he does for an hour each weekend. The rest of the time, it has nothing to do with how he lives his life. The technical term for that is "hypocrisy".
In the case of John Kennedy, that was (a) something he said to give Protestants the warm-and-fuzzies; and (b) quite literally true. He went to Mass on Sunday, and spent the rest of the week seducing 19-year-old interns, pimping them out to his friends, cutting the rug out from under the heroes who wanted to liberate Cuba, risking all-out nuclear war through his weakness before Khruschev in Vienna, cutting the rug out from under our allies in South Vietnam, scr*wing an East German agent and a Mafia moll when he wasn't seducing his teenage intern ... shall I go on?
JFK, and what he said in the Houston speech, ought to make anyone who loves America throw up.
Do you know that Santorum has already issued a statement that he regrets what he said about wanting to vomit? Why do you think he is sorry? Because of the blowback of yet another santorum brain/mouth coordination problem. I am not a fan of JFK or his thoughts on the subject. Santorums statement was crude, elementary, and lacked dignity, that is the issue. He just falls right into the picture liberals love to paint of conservatives.