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Comparing Mitt Romney’s Speech to JFK’s Speech:
The Media is Citing Unfair Criticism of Mitt Romney

The historical comparisons being made between presidential candidate Mitt Romney's speech last week and President John Kennedy's speech in 1960, are wrong in an extremely fundamental way. In listening to some of the more outspoken political analysts criticize former Massachusetts Republican Gov. Romney for pointing out the current, judicially-driven effort to drive faith and God from America's public square was, they eagerly cite, something that Kennedy didn't do.

However, the media, often unconcerned about facts, fail to understand that the Kennedy-Romney comparisons are importantly and fundamentally false because President Kennedy spoke at a time when Americans had an essentially different understanding of faith in the public square because he gave his speech almost two years before the Supreme Court decision Engel v. Vitale outlawed school prayer in 1962.

Consequently, Kennedy Did Not Have the Burden of Defending Faith in the Public Square. Consider that:

• Kennedy spoke 11 years before the 1971 Supreme Court decision in Lemon v. Kurtzman, in which the court devised its most stringent standard of legal secularism.

• Kennedy spoke 20 years before the 1980 Supreme Court decision in Stone v. Graham, which found that the state of Kentucky could not post copies of the 10 commandments in public school classrooms.

• Kennedy spoke 32 years before the 1992 Supreme Court decision in Lee v. Weisman, which held that non-sectarian invocations and benedictions at public school graduation ceremonies were unconstitutional.

• Kennedy spoke 40 years before the 2000 Supreme Court decision in Santa Fe School District v. Doe, in which the court found that brief, nonsectarian, student-led prayer before football games (which no one is forced to attend, and where no one is forced to pray) is unconstitutional.

To show the disingenuous nature of such an unfair comparison, in the forty-seven years since Democratic presidential nominee John F. Kennedy delivered his historic speech, the courts have been increasingly hostile toward public religious expression and increasingly tolerant of anti-religious bigots and their agenda to remove all references to and acknowledgement of God from public life.

As a result, while the purpose of Romney’s judicial comment did not exist when Kennedy delivered his speech, it most certainly does today when Romney spoke. Either the media has a very short memory, is unable to research conditions of their criticism sufficiently to factor in the truth of the matter, or they simply have an agenda of their own to destroy any Republican candidate whenever and however they can—and seem extremely eager to do so if the subject matter is over religion.

The Importance of Mitt Romney's Candidacy

“America cannot continue to lead the family of nations around the world if we suffer the collapse of the family here at home. Together we can build A New American Dream.” With this announcement, Governor Mitt Romney announced his candidacy not long ago, and in so doing, provides American voters with the most moral, relitious, and experienced candidate running in '08. Romney not only has the ability to transform the U.S. Government so that it is both innovative and effective. but also return to the office the moral high ground of the Reagan era. Governor Romney has addressed the need to build a New American Dream by calling on the strength of a free American people.... more

The Liberal Desire to Appease the Enemy

It has always been so. There are those who believe in appeasement as a means to counter aggression, and those who believe aggression can only be countered by return force. With the House and Senate now controlled by Liberal Democrats, what will be the outcome of the War on Terror? .. more

Mitt Romney: A Mormon for President?

What's all the hype about Mitt Romney being a Mormon? 40 of the 43 U.S. Presidents have belonged to a Christian Church--only Hayes (though he attended the Methodist Church), Jefferson and Lincoln did not claim any church membership. There have been Baptists, Catholics, Congregationalists, Disciples of Christ, Episcopalians, Evangelicals (Born again), Friends (Quakers), Methodists, Presbyterians, Reformed Dutch, Seventh Day Adventist, and Unitarians, serving as U.S. Presidents throughout our history. So if Romney is elected, we simply add... more

item5Proven Once Again: Liberals Cannot be Honest

While Liberals are still celebrating their victory in Arizona for narrowly defeating a Marriage Ban ballot issue, they in reality moved further out of mainstream America by their subterfuge, dishonesty, and downright lies regarding their ballot battle. Conservatives have long known what was shown in a clear, understandable manner in Arizona in the weeks leading up to the election. Winning is the only thing that matters to Liberals. Lies, cheating, deception, artifice and other means is their modus operandi in order to deceive people.. more

What Has Happened to Conservative Ideals in the GOP?

Well, conservative leaders have been around the globe on blaming. They have blamed the biased media, blamed the Democrats, blamed voters for not standing firm, blamed conservatives for abandoning them. Why is it that these conservative “leaders” cannot locate a mirror? With Republicans holding both branches of Congress and the White House, having the... more

What Republicans Do Not Understand

In the last days before the election, the Republican National Committee spent time and money on contacting everyone on their rolls trying to raise more money for last minute advertising. Republicans on Capital Hill spent their time trying to distance themselves from President Bush, and what they considered to be the failed Republican agenda. Since the lost election, Republicans in Washington have been arguing about who the new Chairman of the NRC Chairman should be, who will be the new leadership in Congress of their now minority party, and how to get back on top. Some, like former... more

 

Why Did We Lose? Because Liberalism Won by Default

We lost the House. We lost the Senate. We lost the nation for at least the next two years to Liberalism. How could that have happened? Easily. But first, let’s make sure we understand what didn’t happen yesterday. It wasn’t the media that beat us, we prevailed over them in 2002 and 2004; it wasn’t a successful campaign put on by the Democrats, if they were that smart why did they give John Kerry a microphone a week before the election; and we didn’t lost because people have moved away from true virtues that make America great! There was no mystery, we lost plain and simple because.... more

ELECTION RESULTS: An Open Letter to President Bush

This was not a victory for Democrats. It was a defeat for Republicans. And this defeat can be contributed in large part to your failing to realize that the American people want to know what is going on. This is, after all, a long war, and yet there was little, if any, articulation as to why it is necessary other than to protect ourselves against terrorists. In this war of ideas, the White House has been a disappointment. You have never clearly acknowledged the stakes or even who our enemy is. At no point have you called for sacrifice, or even encouraged more young people to join the military. You could have been using your... more

A Coming Third Party?

We may be on the edge of an anti-establishment third party movement in this country that will hurt Republicans and end our majority. However, there are many who feel that Conservatives should reject the temptation to start a third party..... more

Liberals Cannot Comprehend the Value of Our Religious Heritage

Over the past many years, the liberal attitudes in the United States have risen until they now control most media, schools, courts, and literally all special interest groups. One of their major aims, which they readily admit, is to remove God from our society--government, public sectors, private business, courts and community. They have, under the guise of separation of church and state, slowly attacked every mention of God, Christ, religion and religious morality; however, what they fail to understand is, this is exactly what has happened ..... more


It's Time to Remove the IRS

Make no mistake about it, my friends. We are in a fight for our lives. we face the tyranny of an abusive and intrusive federal agency that has few, if any, checks and balances. Ou very financial futures are at stake. Now. Right now! It is time to abolish the IRS through the passage of HR25 and move to a... more
 

Constitutional Right to Bear Arms

Bill of Rights, Article II states: A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed. This Article proclaims one thought covering two different circumstances. That is, the Federal government does not have the right to restrict (or infringe):
1) A well regulated state militia (which is necessary to the security of a free State)
2) The right of the people to keep and bear arms
This is understood by the discussion on this point presented on the floor of the Constitutional Convention leading up to the final vote for ratification by the Convention delegates... more

 

Newt: Now Isn't the Time for Restraint

Imagine that this morning 50 missiles were launched from Cuba and exploded in Miami. In addition to buildings and homes being destroyed, scores of Americans were being killed. Now imagine our allies responded by saying publicly that we must not be too aggressive in... more

Probate and Your Children's Inheritance

Do you work to save money for yourself, family, and to pass on your estate after death? Recent surveys show that as much as 87% of working people say this is why they work. But if that is true, why do so many of these people (more than 77%) fail to do anything to keep their estate intact to pass on to their children and surviving heirs? more

Liberals Prefer Killing 1000s of Americans to Racial Profiling

Recently British authorities arrested 24 members of a terrorist cell plotting to blow up airplanes simultaneously. According to a CNN report, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said of the aborted attack that Terrorists were in the "final stages" of a plot to simultaneously blow up as many as 10 jets leaving Britain for the U.S., sending the planes and thousands of passengers into the Atlantic Ocean. What stopped the attack was ethnic... more

Big Spending Hillary Health Care

Hillary Clinton, throughout her career in Washington and Arkansas, and now New York, has proven her enthusiasm for making Big Government even bigger. Now she seeks the opportunity to enact more policies that would wrest money, freedom and personal control from working families and deliver them to politicians in Washington. Nowhere is this more true than in the health care arena... more

Boycott Citgo Gas

Recently at the United Nations, Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez stood at the podium and called President George W. Bush “The Devil.” No matter one's political leanings, every American should be up in arms over a foreign dictator entering our country and demeaning the Office of the President. What one may consider saying in one's own country is one thing, but what a political leader from another country says here is entirely different. Perhaps Liberals applauded the hateful remark, perhaps not, but in the end, we are all Americans and should find such a immoral and vicious attack on... more

A Letter to the American People from Iraq's President

Jalal Talabani is the President of Iraq. He wrote the following article for McClatchy Newspapers. Since it is information of importance you will not likely find in mainstream news media sources, we have reprinted it here in its entirety. After reading this letter to Americans, ask yourself why the news media has not printed this and made it available to all Americans to whom it was address. Dear Americans: As I am visiting the United States for the second time representing free and democratic Iraq, I felt it my duty to give you an update on what has been achieved in Iraq over the past year and on the challenges that lie ahead. The first thing I would like to convey is the gratitude of all Iraqis, who are fighting for a democratic... more

Hillary Wants to Confiscate Your Gun

By an overwhelming 84-16, voted to prohibit gun confiscations from private citizens in emergencies. Even those in the Senate like Republicans Mike DeWine of Ohio and Lincoln Chaffee of Rhode Island, and Democrats Patty Murray and Maria Cantwell of Washington, who had never voted for the individual rights of law-abiding gun owners, cast their vote against such illegal gun seizure... more

Americans Free to Fly Flag on Their Personal Property

President Bush recently signed the "Freedom to Display the American Flag Act of 2005" into law. This was the first of the American Values Agenda of House Republicans to become law. The bill was approved by the House on June 27, and the Senate on July 17. While it is hard to imagine that some homeowners associations and condos all over the country have prevented Americans from flying the American flag at their homes, this law now prevents... more

 

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