Santorum can?t be dismissed as a fringe figure in today?s Republican Party, and not just because he?s running even with Mitt Romney in the primaries. Romney, too, has rejected the principles of Kennedy?s speech. Four years ago, facing anti-Mormon prejudice, Romney was urged to issue a Kennedyesque statement on church and state. And although that speech contained some promising lines, like his insistence that ?no authorities of my church, or of any other church for that matter, will ever exert influence on presidential decisions,? Romney?s fear of alienating fundamentalist voters eventually led him into incoherence. The separation of church and state had gone too far, he alleged: ?Freedom requires religion just as religion requires freedom.? It makes no sense to say that a candidate?s religion doesn?t matter and then to insist that your piety recommends you as a candidate.
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