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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=4 face=Arial><span style='font-size:13.5pt;
font-family:Arial'>I do so long for the “good old days”, when
politicians really believed in the separation of church and state.</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=4 face=Arial><span style='font-size:13.5pt;
font-family:Arial'>Brad Neuman</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=4 face=Arial><span style='font-size:13.5pt;
font-family:Arial'>“I believe in an America where the separation of
church and state is absolute <span class=span1>--</span> 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 <span
class=span1>--</span> where no church or church school is granted any public
funds or political preference <span class=span1>--</span> 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.<br>
I believe in an America that is officially neither
Catholic, Protestant nor Jewish <span class=span1>--</span> where no public
official either requests or accepts instructions on public policy from the
Pope, the National Council of Churches, or any other ecclesiastical source <span
class=span1>--</span> where no religious body seeks to impose its will directly
or indirectly upon the general populace or the public acts of its officials…”<br>
</span></font><font size=2 color="#330000" face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#330000'>-- <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>John
F. </span></b></span></font><b><font size=2 color="#330000" face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#330000;font-weight:bold'>Ken</span></font></b><b><font
size=2 color="#330000" face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
Arial;color:#330000;font-weight:bold'>nedy</span></font></b><font size=2
color="#330000" face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:#330000'>, address to the Ministerial Association of Greater Houston, </span></font><font size=2 color="#330000" face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:#330000'>September 12, 1960</span></font><font size=2 color="#330000"
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#330000'>,
from Albert J. Menendez and Edd Doerr, </span></font><i><span style='font-style:
italic'><font size=2 color="#330000" face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial;color:#330000'>The</span></font></span></i><i><font size=2
color="#330000" face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:#330000;font-style:italic'> Great Quotations on </span></font></i><i><font
size=2 color="#330000" face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
Arial;color:#330000;font-style:italic'>Re</span></font></i><i><font size=2
color="#330000" face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:#330000;font-style:italic'>ligious Freedom</span></font></i></p>
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