February 15, 2008

Faith and Hypocrisy in the Oval Office

By EVAN R. GOLDSTEIN

With an eye to quelling persistent concerns about his Mormon faith among Christian conservative voters, the Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney has admonished those who "seek to remove from the public domain any acknowledgment of God."

Randall Balmer takes exception to that. "Americans were content to disregard religion as a criterion for voting in 1960," when the candidate John F. Kennedy made his famous speech pledging that his Roman Catholicism would be kept out of state

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