I thought Fox news was for the sheeples? Lol

Don't candinates / presidents hire people for the speech?

wow, you beat me to it with the former president bush thing.
and personally i think the guy is pretty deceptive, even with his
'JFK style speech', i think his speech came across as a tactic of religious black mail, he's trying to make voters feel guilty.
however his religion speech can also be used as a tactic or a smokescreen.
that way people start to concentrate on his beliefs rather than his flip flopping on issues like abortion and such.
oh well.

Hi There,

Freedom requires religion just as religion requires freedom...

Mitt Romney 'Fath In America' Speech.

No such relationship exists, because religion always and without exception limits freedoms because of creed. Freedoms never require religion to obtain from religion equal or more freedoms. My freedoms - such as they are, were not handed to my ancestors or to me by a so-called benevolent God, but by the self-sacrifice of life by my ancestral compatriots to acheive a more substantial way of life in which they could be happier.

I have no problem with anyone practising a faith that I myself do not wish to entertain or accept as a self-evident truth. Self-evident freedoms were not won by one's supplication on bended knee to some ideological diety, they were won at the point of the sword, or by the bullet. The founding fathers and founding ancestors of America gained their right to impose their own laws around a constitution because they fought my ancestral compatriots and wrested from them an independence of self-rule. From the slaughter and the spilling of blood, rights to freedoms were won...therein lay the establishment of American freedoms. Without freedoms, religious practice of any kind cannot be publicly enjoyed.

Yet, even in the establishing of freedom to self-governance, we see in the birth of every society that the ideological concept of freedom is always diluted for a practicable and livable society. A genuine free society allows all manner and modes of expression, and tolerates them in the same way one would wish to be tolerated by others. Religion cannot in anyway give freedom to freedom, which is the relationship Romney wants you to accept as being a 'self-evident'. I would suggest that this fellow is appealing to the evangelistic vote in order to gain higher rating figures. He is basically stating sweet words with no substance or 'real' flavour. The very fact that he suggests that America was founded as a Christian society, rather than as a free and liberal society unfettered and unassailed by religious intolerance and sectarianism, makes him someone to watch with suspicion. America was founded on a premise of freedom for expressions, not on any one particular expression, whether it be a religious creed or faith or a political ideology.

To return to constitutional principles as set by the founding fathers, America needs a liberal president, whom will make sacrosanct the freedom of the individual from both state and religious interference. From that essential encompassing freedom, the individual can pursue their own way of life, religion, or political ideology.

Best wishes

He sounds like he is so religious that he would never be able to seperate his faith from his politics to me..Religious liberty...

"Freedom requires religion just as religion requires freedom. Freedom opens the windows of the soul so that man can discover his most profound beliefs and commune with God. Freedom and religion endure together, or perish alone.

... endure together or perish alone...

Religious Liberty would also include the right not to be religious, and to choose how you want to practice your religion by definition dear Mr.dumbney...so beware al nonbelievers (I smell fearfactor)

"I'm not sure that we fully appreciate the profound implications of our tradition of religious liberty. I have visited many of the magnificent cathedrals in Europe. They are so inspired … so grand … so empty. Raised up over generations, long ago, so many of the cathedrals now stand as the postcard backdrop to societies just too busy or too 'enlightened' to venture inside and kneel in prayer. The establishment of state religions in Europe did no favor to Europe's churches. And though you will find many people of strong faith there, the churches themselves seem to be withering away.

In must European countries the whole "state religion" thing is chooseable, you can choose to pay tax to the church or you can choose not to, its not more established than that.

and yes we do believe in religous liberty in the way, that we don't need the churches priest to give us a peptalk every week, some do others don't.. we use them more for funerals, marriage and such.

This is true religious liberty, to use the religion as a personal thing if you choose to or to go to church if you choose to, or to believe in what ever religion you choose, or to not believe at all.

why would everyone need a church to kneel down in prayer? let it be the choise of the believer like in true religious liberty.

I think he will be another "good" American president, with true knowledge on how to keep people down by the use of fear, guilt and religious politics as he has made it perfectly clear:

Freedom and religion endure together, or perish alone

yeah...he wont mix up his religion and his politics for sure... good luck with that dude

When I see comments like I've seen it this thread (usually from so-called "constitutionalists"), it really makes me wonder how much people really understand about this country and how it was founded.

When someone makes a comment like, "a president saying god bless America offends me", it really shows how little people understand. Faith and politics ARE intertwined in America, and always have been. I can only hope that they always will be as well.

When the founding fathers sat down to form this country and write it's Constitution, they did so with God in mind. They were religious people and knew that in order to govern fairly, the principles they shared needed to be used. That's why in our nations anthems and pledges you see such phrases as "one nation under God".

Don't get me wrong now, I believe full heartedly in the separation of church and state. And I also believe that a President should act first on behalf of his country, not his God. But believe me when I say, I would much rather have a god fearing President in this country than a non believer. Only because as a believer, it is very important to me.

I listened to his speech and on the surface it was well scripted and targeted to the folks he wanted to attract and influence.

In other words; transparent pandering to the evangelicals by attempting to cover up his Mormonism and make it seem to be mainstreme Christianity.

With his Bush connections, I am almost positive he will be the next POTUS.

It's a brave new world, welcome to the monkey house!!