{"id":1748,"date":"2007-12-06T18:10:45","date_gmt":"2007-12-07T01:10:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/?p=1748"},"modified":"2007-12-06T18:10:45","modified_gmt":"2007-12-07T01:10:45","slug":"religion-iff-freedom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2007\/12\/06\/religion-iff-freedom\/","title":{"rendered":"Religion iff Freedom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Compare and contrast and compare and constrast.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/News\/Politics\/2000\/09\/I-Believe-In-An-America-Where-The-Separation-Of-Church-And-State-Is-Absolute.aspx\">John F. Kennedy<\/a>, September 12, 1960:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute&#8211;where no Catholic prelate would tell the President (should he be Catholic) how to act, and no Protestant minister would tell his parishioners for whom to vote&#8211;where no church or church school is granted any public funds or political preference&#8211;and where no man is denied public office merely because his religion differs from the President who might appoint him or the people who might elect him.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2007\/POLITICS\/12\/06\/romney.speech\/?imw=Y&amp;iref=mpstoryemail\">Mitt Romney<\/a>, December 6, 2007:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Freedom requires religion, just as religion requires freedom. Freedom opens the windows of the soul so that man can discover his most profound beliefs and commune with God. Freedom and religion endure together, or perish alone.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Separation_of_church_and_state_in_the_United_States#Jefferson.2C_Madison.2C_and_the_.22wall_of_separation.22\">Thomas Jefferson<\/a>, in a letter, 1802:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legislative powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should &#8216;make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,&#8217; thus building a wall of separation between church and State.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Bonus points if you can connect the later quote to the context of the second quote in one historic moment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Compare and contrast and compare and constrast. John F. Kennedy, September 12, 1960: I believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute&#8211;where no Catholic prelate would tell the President (should he be Catholic) how to act, and no Protestant minister would tell his parishioners for whom to vote&#8211;where no church &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2007\/12\/06\/religion-iff-freedom\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Religion iff Freedom&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1748\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}