Santorum says he ‘almost threw up’ after reading JFK speech on separation of church and state
Former senator Rick Santorum (R-Pa.) on Sunday defended a statement he made last October in which he said that he “almost threw up” when he read John F. Kennedy’s 1960 Houston address on the role of religion in public life.
The statement by Santorum marks the GOP contender’s latest defense of his long-held views on the separation of church and state, although in his Sunday appearance he doubled down on the colorful language he employed in his October speech at a New Hampshire college.
In remarks last year at the College of Saint Mary Magdalen in Warner, N.H., Santorum had told the crowd of J.F.K.’s famous 1960 address to the Greater Houston Ministerial Association, “Earlier in my political career, I had the opportunity to read the speech, and I almost threw up. You should read the speech.”. . .
. . . On Sunday, ABC’s George Stephanopoulos asked Santorum whether he stood by his statement last year, noting that Santorum’s rival, former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney (R), delivered an address on religion during the 2008 campaign that garnered comparisons to Kennedy’s address.
Santorum defended his remarks, telling Stephanopoulos that “the first line, first substantive line in the speech, says, ‘I believe in America where the separation of church and state is absolute.’”
“I don’t believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute,” Santorum said. “The idea that the church can have no influence or no involvement in the operation of the state is absolutely antithetical to the objectives and vision of our country.”. . .
. . .Later in the interview, Stephanopoulos asked Santorum, “You think you wanted to throw up?”
“Well, yes, absolutely,” Santorum replied. “To say that people of faith have no role in the public square? You bet that makes you throw up. What kind of country do we live that says only people of non-faith can come into the public square and make their case? That makes me throw up.”
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He as usual mischaracterizes JFK's speech. The Republicans have absolutely gone off the deep end. They are certifiably insane.
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But I'll sacrifice vomit for the great comic relief.
Governors number one and two of the Commonwealth of Virginia, interestingly. We certainly have gone downhill from there, haven't we?
Thom Hartmann will probably bring this up tonight, if he hasn't already, but just to emphasize what Jefferson thought were his most important accomplishments in life, here's a picture of his tombstone:
Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom
An Act for establishing religious Freedom.
Whereas, Almighty God hath created the mind free;
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That the impious presumption of legislators and rulers, civil as well as ecclesiastical, who, being themselves but fallible and uninspired men have assumed dominion over the faith of others, setting up their own opinions and modes of thinking as the only true and infallible, and as such endeavouring to impose them on others, hath established and maintained false religions over the greatest part of the world and through all time;
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That our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions any more than our opinions in physics or geometry,
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Be it enacted by General Assembly that no man shall be compelled to frequent or support any religious worship, place, or ministry whatsoever, nor shall be enforced, restrained, molested, or burthened in his body or goods, nor shall otherwise suffer on account of his religious opinions or belief, but that all men shall be free to profess, and by argument to maintain, their opinions in matters of Religion, and that the same shall in no wise diminish, enlarge or affect their civil capacities.
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Can you imagine any candidate saying that today?
Who hates poor people, charged for healing, rebelled against paying taxes and loved mammon worshiping capitalists above all else!
Everytime I read online about the decline in political discourse, I bring out this cartoon.
I don't believe in lucky numbers or lucky totems, but I always have at least one $2 bill in my wallet. Kids love them at yard sales, and now, you never can tell when you'll run into a supporter of Ricky Santorum. Hold up the bill in front of him, and he might burst into flames.
Born, on April 13, 1743, in Shadwell, Virginia,...
It's No Laughing Matter - Analyzing Political Cartoons
The prairie dog sickened at the sting of the hornet or a diplomatic puppet exhibiting his deceptions
James Akin's earliest-known signed cartoon, "The Prairie Dog" is an anti-Jefferson satire, relating to Jefferson's covert negotiations for the purchase of West Florida from Spain in 1804. Jefferson, as a scrawny dog, is stung by a hornet with Napoleon's head into coughing up "Two Millions" in gold coins, (the secret appropriation Jefferson sought from Congress for the purchase). On the right dances a man (possibly a French diplomat) with orders from French minister Talleyrand in his pocket and maps of East Florida and West Florida in his hand. He says, "A gull for the People."
Just as long as it's his brand of Christianity though.....
Ratified unanimously by Congress in 1797, signed by that bomb-throwing anarchist president John Adams.
"As the United States is not in any sense a Christian nation..."
Still valid under the Supremacy clause of the U. S. Constitution as the supreme law of the land.
It would be good entertainment watching his head explode. 
& send his stupid ass on his way. I prefer Santorum be really nauseous & incapable of spouting any more shi*.
(...you were all thinkin' it...)
party soon enough. The rest will have committed suicide, they're all nuts! 
What is the difference between you and vomit?
You both stink 
...it's time to whip this out once again;
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"I don't believe in an America where the separation of church and state are absolute,"
AGREE completely with Mr Santorum! Now let us have 'the Church' in USA open all their books to complete government scrutiny. Before 'the Church' appoints ministers and leaders, they must require said Ministers meet minimum government established standards and be USA citizens. The government will pre-approve all Church sermons and audit moneys given to 'the Church.' While USA is at it, make the corporations 'the Church' pay taxes, taxes, taxes.
Nope USA don't need no separation of church and state.
Ema Nymton
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and it s all there in the sepration clause. article iv states that there shall be no religious litness test. Also the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo , states that we are not a Christian nation.
http://www.ask.com/wiki/Treaty_of_Guadalupe_Hidalgo
And it is a shame that santorum is defaming a great man like jfk
What's new???
He is either too stupid to comprehend what RFK was communicating, or just twisting the idea to fit his warped view of religion/govt. Either way, he's a looser.
Santorum=L
10. John F. Kennedy was a war hero who fought in the Pacific theater after America was the victim of a war of aggression. Santorum is a chickenhawk who voted to send US soldiers into Iraq on false pretenses.
9. John F. Kennedy wanted universal health care to help the poor. Santorum wants to repeal the Health Care Reform that provides for every American to have health insurance
8. John F. Kennedy was a liberal who cared about people. Rick Santorum is a rightist radical who wants to abolish the Federal safety net for those who need it and who plays politics with race resentments.
7. John F. Kennedy was committed to protecting the environment. Rick Santorum argues for human “dominion” over the earth, more oil and gas use, and dismisses the threat of global climate change.
6. John F. Kennedy launched a US government project to land an American on the moon within a decade, saying “We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills…” Santorum, no visionary, views space exploration as a “wasteful” “government program” and wants to hang competition with the Chinese in space on the US private sector (as if there is money to be made in the black vacuum of outer space)
5. John F. Kennedy praised science and scientists, saying, , “Science contributes to our culture in many ways, as a creative intellectual activity in its own right, as the light which has served to illuminate man’s place in the universe, and as the source of understanding of man’s own nature.” Rick Santorum believes that most scientists are immoral.
4. John F. Kennedy supported peaceful revolutions. “Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.” Rick Santorum supported the dictator Hosni Mubarak and opposed the Arab Spring.
3. John F. Kennedy opposed government secrecy and censorship on national security grounds. Rick Santorum called Julian Assange of wikileaks “a terrorist” for publishing classified documents.
2. John F. Kennedy opposed wars of aggression, saying, “The United States, as the world knows, will never start a war. We do not want a war. We do not now expect a war. This generation of Americans has already had enough — more than enough — of war and hate and oppression.” Rick Santorum wants to launch an illegal and unilateral attack on Iran
1. John F. Kennedy was a hunk. 
Rick Santorum wears sweater vests. 
http://www.juancole.com/2012/02/top-ten-differences-between-rick-santorum-and-jfk.html
