Secular Café: Santorum again attacks JFK's position on church and state

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Santorum again attacks JFK's position on church and state Apr 1st 2012, 22:26 Oh well, I hope this puts paid to his electoral chances. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/0...elections-2012 Quote: On Friday, as Mitt Romney continued to consolidate establishment support for his presidential candidacy within the Republican Party, getting the endorsement of Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wisc) days ahead of the Wisconsin primary, Rick Santorum soldiered on in a seemingly different quest. Santorum wrote a 2,400-word essay essentially defending the substance of what he was trying to convey a month ago when he said that former President John F. Kennedy's 1960 speech on church and state made him want to "throw up." Santorum has since said he regretted using that specific phrase, but his essay on the RealClearReligion website did not pull punches in going after Kennedy. "Kennedy took words written to protect religion from the government and used them to protect the government from religion," Santorum said, referring to the phrase "separation of church and state."...

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