The appeal to the party's Christian base – dismissing the famous 1960 campaign speech by President Kennedy to keep his Catholic faith out of politics – represents a further lurch to the right in the acrimonious battle to find a Republican candidate to face Barack Obama in November.
"I don't believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute," said Mr Santorum, an evangelical Catholic who would become the second Catholic to win the White House after President Kennedy.
"The first substantive line in the [Kennedy] speech says, 'I believe in America where the separation of church and state is absolute," the former Pennsylvania senator told ABC News, "You bet that makes you throw up." » | Peter Foster, Jon Swaine in Washington | Monday, February 27, 2012
This guy is a throwback – a throwback from a bygone era. If he becomes the nominee, he doesn’t have a chance against Obama. He’s going to alienate the gays, the feminists, and all the moderate voices in the US. If the concept of the separation of Church and State make him want to “throw up”, it begs the following question: Which kind of state do you wish to see in the US, Mr. Santorum? A theocracy, per chance? – © Mark
