I question the source
Sam Donaldson apparently just finished reading some nutty lefty blogs when he appeared on the roundtable segment in ABC's "This Week" yesterday. Courtesy of Newsbusters, here's the transcript:
GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS: Let's turn to Republicans. Mitt Romney did give his big speech on faith in America this week. He said very clearly that he would not be taking any, he would not be influenced by the leaders in his church. But then he made a turn in his speech and listen to this:
MITT ROMNEY: The notion of the separation of church and state has been taken by some well beyond its original meaning. They seek to remove from the public domain any acknowledgment of God. Religion is seen as merely as a private affair with no place in public life. It's as if they're intent on establishing a new religion. The religion of secularism. They're wrong.
STEPHANOPOULOS: Sam, we've all been talking about the echoes of John F. Kennedy. That was actually a repudiation of John F. Kennedy who, in 1960, said that the separation of church and state is absolute and that religion is a private matter.
SAM DONALDSON: That's right and that's far we've come. He talks about the public square. Now, he would say, "I'm don't mean a Christian theocracy in the White House." But it's getting much, much closer. When I first came to this town, chaplains began the sessions of the Senate and the House with a prayer.
STEPHANOPOULOS: Still do.
DONALDSON: People talked about the pledge of allegiance. Still do. And that was just fine. But now, religion has crept into public policy. On the floor of the Senate or the House, you hear God evoked for a tax cut or making it permanent. [All laugh] I think God is too busy to worry about those things. But Mitt Romney's speech, I think, was very, very frightening to people, who think the encroachment into government, into the White House, or into the Congress, on religious matters, making decisions on public policy-- It's wrong.
And guess what? Democrats use the same language every time children's health insurance comes up.
I hazard to guess that Donaldson has never even spoken to someone who actually holds the views that he attributes to so many evangelical Christians. The truth is the people that Donaldson so fears couldn't muster enough votes to elect a dog catcher in Tombstone, Ariz.
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Stephanopoulos and Donaldson are clowns. It's funny the way liberals
rewrite history to suit their purpose (as they have with the collective
amnesia of ten years of Democrats talking about Saddam's WMD).
Here's JFK's inaugural address, note the absolute "separation of
church and state":
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We observe today not a victory of party but a celebration of
freedom--symbolizing an end as well as a beginning--signifying renewal
as well as change. For I have sworn before you and Almighty God the
same solemn oath our forbears prescribed nearly a century and
three-quarters ago.
The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the
power to abolish all forms of human poverty and all forms of human
life. And yet the same revolutionary beliefs for which our forebears
fought are still at issue around the globe--the belief that the rights
of man come not from the generosity of the state but from the hand of
God.
With a good conscience our only sure reward, with history the final
judge of our deeds, let us go forth to lead the land we love, asking
His blessing and His help, but knowing that here on earth God's work
must truly be our own.
Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall
pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend,
oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.
And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for
you--ask what you can do for your country.
John F. Kennedy
Inaugural Address
Washington, D.C.
January 20, 1961
http://www.bartleby.com/124/pres56.html