extreme Catholic 

I think the Romney speech is one of the best of the decade. It was in the opinion of this Catholic better than the Kennedy speech with its misunderstood "absolute wall".

Romney said much of what Kennedy should have said. Of course, both Romney and I have some 48 years of perspective to know what bad fruit that speech brought.

The problem isn't the intrusion of the Church into the state but the purgation of morality from political life. Here I quote Romney quoting Adams: In John Adams’ words: 'We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion... Our constitution was made for a moral and religious people.' We are a moral and religious people. Not Atheists are amoral, but some are.

My fear with atheists is simple -- if rights don't come from God, do they exist? And if they exist, what authority granted them and does that authority possess the ability to take them back? Please don't say "The People" The image of the Reign of Terror pops into my head.

Romney is enough of a politician to address the outrage from atheists. I'll keep looking for atheist blogs that might address the source of our rights.

Labels: church-state, politics, romney

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