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Santorum: ?Separation of church and state? meant to protect church from gov?t, not vice versa

By Alliance Alert

LifeSiteNews: "In a speech last Thursday at the University of St. Thomas in Houston, Texas Santorum contemplated the consequences of Kennedy's famous words, just before the fiftieth anniversary of the late president's address. His remarks were published in full by Catholic Online Monday . . . The notion that religion should not influence government was introduced relatively late in American political history; the original intention behind the so-called 'separation of church and state,' he explained, was to protect religion from the government, not the other way around. 'Kennedy's misuse of the phrase constructed a high barrier that ultimately would keep religious convictions out of politics in a place where our founders had intended just the opposite,' he said."

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on September 13, 2010 (boomark / email).