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alp227

(32,082 posts)
Wed Feb 29, 2012, 02:23 AM Feb 2012

Daughter of JFK speechwriter responds to Santorum 'throwing up' remark

In a letter to be published in Wednesday's NY Times, Juliet S. Sorensen, daughter of Pres. Kennedy's speechwriter Ted Sorensen, highlighted this portion of that speech that invoked a freeper BARF with the candidate with that vulgar last name:

"It was Virginia’s harassment of Baptist preachers, for example, that helped lead to Jefferson’s statute of religious freedom. ... This is the kind of America for which our forefathers died when they fled here to escape religious test oaths that denied office to members of less favored churches — when they fought for the Constitution, the Bill of Rights and the Virginia Statute of Religious Freedom — and when they fought at the shrine I visited today, the Alamo."
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Daughter of JFK speechwriter responds to Santorum 'throwing up' remark (Original Post) alp227 Feb 2012 OP
The Founders were extremely explicit on this issue Ian62 Feb 2012 #1
He makes me physically sick too. You betcha! Auntie Bush Feb 2012 #2
Every time I read a mention of Frothy Maynar Feb 2012 #3
 

Ian62

(604 posts)
1. The Founders were extremely explicit on this issue
Wed Feb 29, 2012, 04:38 PM
Feb 2012

Seperation of Church and State.
Religious Freedom.

They knew very well the sort of thing that had happened in Europe where this was not the case.
America was founded because of it.
The Pilgrims would not have left for the New World, if they had not been persecuted.

I want to know how anyone could elect this wingnut for anything, let alone Senator.
He makes me physically sick.

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