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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDaughter 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 Virginias harassment of Baptist preachers, for example, that helped lead to Jeffersons 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
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Ian62
(604 posts)1. The Founders were extremely explicit on this issue
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.
Auntie Bush
(17,528 posts)2. He makes me physically sick too. You betcha!
Maynar
(769 posts)3. Every time I read a mention of Frothy
I throw up a little in my mouth. Does that count for anything?