Some help for those confused by Romney’s speech
from: http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/religion/rel06.html
Religion and the Founding of the American Republic
VI. Religion and the Federal Government
In response to widespread sentiment that to survive the United States needed a stronger federal government, a convention met in Philadelphia in the summer of 1787 and on September 17 adopted the Constitution of the United States. Aside from Article VI, which stated that “no religious Test shall ever be required as Qualification” for federal office holders, the Constitution said little about religion. Its reserve troubled two groups of Americans–those who wanted the new instrument of government to give faith a larger role and those who feared that it would do so. This latter group, worried that the Constitution did not prohibit the kind of state-supported religion that had flourished in some colonies, exerted pressure on the members of the First Federal Congress. In September 1789 the Congress adopted the First Amendment to the Constitution, which, when ratified by the required number of states in December 1791, forbade Congress to make any law “respecting an establishment of religion.”
The first two Presidents of the United States were patrons of religion–George Washington was an Episcopal vestryman, and John Adams described himself as “a church going animal.” Both offered strong rhetorical support for religion. In his Farewell Address of September 1796, Washington called religion, as the source of morality, “a necessary spring of popular government,” while Adams claimed that statesmen “may plan and speculate for Liberty, but it is Religion and Morality alone, which can establish the Principles upon which Freedom can securely stand.” Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, the third and fourth Presidents, are generally considered less hospitable to religion than their predecessors, but evidence presented in this section shows that, while in office, both offered religion powerful symbolic support.
from MoreWhat.com:
This post is presented as a learning aid to those having difficulty understanding Mitt Romney’s speech, ‘Faith in America’ given on Thursday Dec 6, 2007. It was inspired by, surprisingly enough, the Rush Limbaugh broadcast of Friday Dec 7, 2007. Limbaugh’s talk show demonstrated that so many people did not understand critical points in the Faith in America speech. That includes journalists and others who should know better.
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December 8th, 2007 at 9:27 pm
The speech was awesome am I the last person in America to appreciate it and understand it. The public schools sure did the job they were intended to do. The evangelicals would go on a Mormon hunt if the rest of the country weren’t so secular. The secular side seem to recognize that Romney is 100% unassailable on ethics and integrity so they need him out now specifically the Press MSM. A select few still understand the essence of America. Unfortunately the numbers of those who understand will not be enough to boost Romney to where he should be.