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« Mooninite kudos | Main | Another Kennedy » Thursday, February 8, 2007Romney and KennedyThe Times takes up the issue of Romney's religion on A1 today. The piece concerns itself largely with how Romney's faith will affect his chances of winning his party's nomination. (In an Ideas piece in late December, Drake Bennett looked at where the Church of Latter Day Saints stands on various issues -- and found that "Romney's stances on key issues dear to the religious right may actually make him more conservative than his own church.") The Times also reports that Romney is "giving strong consideration to a public address about his faith and political views, modeled after the one John F. Kennedy gave in 1960 in the face of a wave of concern about his being a Roman Catholic." The Kennedy Library has the text of that speech, and the audio too. It's well worth a read or listen. Here's a taste: If I should lose on the real issues, I shall return to my seat in the Senate, satisfied that I had tried my best and was fairly judged. But if this election is decided on the basis that 40 million Americans lost their chance of being President on the day they were baptized, then it is the whole nation that will be the loser, in the eyes of Catholics and non-Catholics around the world, in the eyes of history, and in the eyes of our own people. Posted by John Swansburg at 11:15 AM
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