LAST month, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney gave his own version of John Kennedy’s famous 1960 speech, in which Kennedy reassured those who thought his Catholicism would turn him into a puppet of the Vatican by bravely declaring to an audience of Southern Baptist leaders, “I believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute”. In Romney’s rendition, however, America is a place where there is no room in the state for those who do not go to church.
In the spirit of inclusiveness, Romney described an America made up of Catholics, Baptists, Methodists, Jews and…
