Mitt Romney is giving his big speech on faith tomorrow. Considering that he was browbeat into giving the speech by the media because of perceived concern about his Mormon beliefs, the reasonable expectation would be that it would be about Mormonism. That’s where you would be wrong.
Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney said Monday that he would not focus on his Mormon beliefs in a major speech on religion this week and instead would discuss his concern that “faith has disappeared from the public square.”
In other words, this big speech is about how there’s not ENOUGH religion in public life, under the guise of calming fears that Romney would use his religion to inform the decisions he’d make in public life.
And incredibly, Romney is claiming that he was “inspired” by the JFK speech on the separation of church and state, which is the OPPOSITE of his speech.
Inspired by a speech given in September 1960 by Democratic candidate John F. Kennedy, whose Roman Catholic beliefs engendered fears among Protestants that as president he would put the church’s teachings ahead of the national interest, Romney wrote his address Thursday in his hotel suite in Boca Raton, Fla., a spokesman said [...]
On Monday, Romney called Kennedy’s address “the definitive speech” on politics and religion.
“What he said makes sense to me,” Romney said.
What he said makes sense to me, so I’m going to deliver a speech about how we’re a religious nation and we have to maintain our religious heritage “in the public square.” You know, NOT what Kennedy said.
That should be a fun speech.
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This is exactly right. Romney’s speech is precisely the opposite of JFK’s speech. Our media is too stupid to understand that.
Kennedy said that religious intolerance is beneath the dignity of a mature populace. But it didn’t matter, because the point of the speech was that his administration would enforce a WALL … a separation of church and state – which was absolute.
Romney on the other hand, said that the people who believe in the separation of church and state are unAmerican, tangentially, Muslims are trying to kill us, and if you don’t believe in Jesus and by extension, Jesus’ place in American government, then you’re no different than the terrorists who attacked us on 9/11.
Then he said 9/11 some more, then he said Radical Islamic Jihadists, 9/11, 9/11.
BTW
Can anybody tell me how that can possibly be true?
Left by Fred Gooltz
December 7, 2007 at 1:57pm