Santorum: ‘I Don’t Believe In An America Where The Separation Between Church And State Is Absolute’

[Justice wanted]

http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2012/02/26/432573/santorum-i-dont-believe-in-an-america-where-the-separation-between-church-and-state-is-absolute/


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So Ricky is saying he doesn't believe in the First Amendment AND if that is the case which other parts of our consititution. For that matter can someone TRULY take an oath to defend our Constitution IF they do not believe in part of that.

[Renew Deal]

1. Then I have a country for him

[seeviewonder]

2. Then it is too bad thar I do believe in

absolute separation.

[Historic NY]

3. I posted this excerpt from President US Grant's as a reply to santorium.

Ulysses S. Grant (State of the Union address) to the Congress, December 7, 1875:

First. That the States shall be required to afford the opportunity of a good common-school education to every child within their limits.

Second. No sectarian tenets shall ever be taught in any school supported in whole or in part by the State, nation, or by the proceeds of any tax levied upon any community. Make education compulsory so far as to deprive all persons who can not read and write from becoming voters after the year 1890, disfranchising none, however, on grounds of illiteracy who may be voters at the time this amendment takes effect.

Third. Declare church and state forever separate and distinct, but each free within their proper spheres; and that all church property SHALL bear its own proportion of Taxation (A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents. Vol. X. New York: Bureau of National Literature, Inc., 1897, p. 4310)


http://www.theology.edu/journal/volume2/ushistor.htm

I found this earlier and used it on a HP post.

[eShirl]

4. That tells me all I need to know about him.

[nobodyspecial]

5. He was truly frightening today

He should frighten the rest of America as well.

And, he played it as if religious leader and people of faith are outright denied any access to debate or holding public office. It's laughable. Politicians, even Democrats, are always trumpeting their religious beliefs and discussing how it influences them. Point to me the atheists who are in office proudly declaring their non belief.

I guess to him that access to the public square means they are denied the ability to impose their faith and values on people with other beliefs or no belief at all. I wonder how he would feel if the Romney the Mormon was running things or if Obama really was a Muslim.

[tridim]

6. People who hate America probably shouldn't bother running for President.

Santorum doesn't even know what America is.

[Botany]

7. Rick just makes stuff up so he can say that speration between church and state ...

..... was not in the founders vision even though that is exactly what they
had in mind when the wrote the Constitution.

Jefferson wrote, "I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which
declared that their legislature should 'make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting
the free exercise thereof,' thus building a wall of separation between Church & State."

http://www.loc.gov/loc/lcib/9806/danpre.html

[ibegurpard]

8. well that means he supports an America where the State can tell his church what to do.

does it not?

[MineralMan]

9. That's OK, Ricky. We don't believe in you, either.

Best of luck in your future endeavors, eh...

[HopeHoops]

10. He doesn't believe in separation of "man on dog" either.

[Historic NY]

11. His response makes him morally and ethically unfit to be President of the United States of American.

[liberalhistorian]

12. Well, little Ricky, this liberal Christian does not

and cannot believe in an America where you're President.

And yes, asshole, we DO exist, despite your know-it-all claim otherwise.

[spanone]

13. rick is running for ayatolla

[Ter]

14. Well in a way he's right, why should it be, when no other Amendment is absolute?

I'm fine with a ban on yelling "fire!" in a crowded theater, fine with banning fully automatic machine guns for 12 year olds, and fine with owning robots, which technically violates the ban on slavery. I'm also fine with allowing "In God We Trust" on currency, and fine with "One Nation Under God" on the Pledge of Allegiance. Every Amendment has its limits.