Lay Theism » people http://www.laytheism.com/blog Born Again... Secular Sun, 29 Aug 2010 18:07:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 en hourly 1 ‘I Believe in an America Where the Separation of Church and State is Absolute’ http://www.laytheism.com/blog/2008/i-believe-in-an-america-where-the-separation-of-church-and-state-is-absolute/ http://www.laytheism.com/blog/2008/i-believe-in-an-america-where-the-separation-of-church-and-state-is-absolute/#comments Fri, 04 Apr 2008 03:03:43 +0000 Hugh http://www.laytheism.com/blog/?p=37 One of the best speeches ever made… By John F. Kennedy over a generation ago.  Includes the passage:

I believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute–where no Catholic prelate would tell the President (should he be Catholic) how to act, and no Protestant minister would tell his parishioners for whom to vote–where no church or church school is granted any public funds or political preference–and where no man is denied public office merely because his religion differs from the President who might appoint him or the people who might elect him.

How could we have strayed so far off course in such a short time.  When can we get back to the real United States of America?  The one without ‘God’ all over our money and tacked on to our pledge.  I guess those were simpler times, but here in 2008 we clearly have simpler people.

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