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Rick Santorum may have hurled away his presidential aspirations this week when he put forth that he wanted to  throw up when contemplating John F. Kennedy’s famous 1960 address on Church-State separation.

Which leads me to wonder: What issued from his body when he first heard John Lennon’s secular anthem “Imagine”?

I am not necessarily one to say “I told you so” a self-congratulating prig so permit me to rehearse some of my axioms about Faith and Values politicking, which Santorum’s Michigan implosion verified for all to see.

For starters, the American electorate is not presently receptive to full-blown, mixed-martial-arts, faith-based culture warrioring. The type of amplified appeals to divisive “religious” (read conservative Christian) themes articulated by Santorum, and…

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