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50 Years Later, JFK Speech Part Of Culture War

February 28th, 2012 8:19 pm Associated Press

When Rick Santorum rebuked John F. Kennedy’s 1960 speech on religion, he was repeating a common conservative view that the address did more harm than good.

In an interview Sunday with ABC’s “This Week,” Santorum, a Roman Catholic Republican, said he “almost threw up” when he read the remarks by Kennedy, who told the Greater Houston Ministerial Association: “I believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute.”

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  • Baron Cormac

    Rick Santorum does not speak for the Roman Catholics of the United States. He speaks for a small, but vocal minority made up of the more conservative Bishops, and the Knights of Columbus and their adjuncts. The majority of Roman Catholics in this country do not believe in what Rick believes in. They believe in freedom of choice. They believe in educating their children as best as they can afford. They believe that the Government shouldn’t be legislating morality and the Church should not be influencing legislation. The Church had been dragged kicking and screaming into the 20th century by Popes John XXIII and Paul VI. John-Paul I would have continued that had he lived. Instead, John-Paul II and Benedict XVI have brought the church back to its 16th century comfort zone, and have condemned anyone who tries to bring Vatican II’s teachings back.