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WASHINGTON - Republican presidential hopeful Rick Santorum said Sunday that he doesn't believe in the separation of church and state, adding that he was sickened by John F. Kennedy's assurances to Baptist ministers 52 years ago that he would not impose his Catholic faith on them.
"I don't believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute," Santorum, a devout Catholic, said in an interview from Michigan on ABC's "This Week."
"The First Amendment means the free exercise of religion and that means bringing people and their faith into the public square."
Originally posted by FugitiveSoul
Personally, I think it should be seen as an extreme conflict of interest to even discuss religious matters while in office. No one should even know a politician's religion. Everyday we've got Newt quoting scripture, Santorum going bat$h!t on a goodly number of ridiculous subjects, and Romney being targeted for being a Mormon, and Obama for being either a racist Christian or an American hating Muslim.
This is the whole reason they (the founders) wanted to separate these two things. You cannot run a melting pot nation on the creed of one religion, whether you believe that religion to be the end-all be-all of human law or not.
edit on 26-2-2012 by FugitiveSoul because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by David9176
WASHINGTON - Republican presidential hopeful Rick Santorum said Sunday that he doesn't believe in the separation of church and state, adding that he was sickened by John F. Kennedy's assurances to Baptist ministers 52 years ago that he would not impose his Catholic faith on them.
"I don't believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute," Santorum, a devout Catholic, said in an interview from Michigan on ABC's "This Week."
"The First Amendment means the free exercise of religion and that means bringing people and their faith into the public square."
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I think this seals the end for Santorum. I don't know how he can go on and on about government overreach and then state something like this.
Nutty Santorum just keeps topping himself with outrageous statements. Santorum would not only like push his beliefs on those who are not religious, but impose them on those who have a different religion altogether.
I can't believe this guy is leading polls.....edit on 26-2-2012 by David9176 because: (no reason given)
reply to post by Azadok
Well I think Santrum is off the deep end, his statement of having faith of a religion that can not be totally be separated from the office holder and he also believes their is nothing wrong with that.
Our founding fathers realized this too and set up insurances for this , so that places like the Vatican could never have influence on the level they did during the dark ages. They absolutely realized that personal faith was good and never intended for the level of separation people like you try to force on all .
Nutty Santorum just keeps topping himself with outrageous statements. Santorum would not only like push his beliefs on those who are not religious, but impose them on those who have a different religion altogether.
Originally posted by RealSpoke
Message to Santorum = USA is not a Christian nation. The only people that like you are 65+