The so Called Religious Issue

Clidney Joseph
MagistraWinterich
IB History of the Americas
30 April 2012
 
Declamation
 
Good morning. Today I willing be declaiming an excerpt from John F. Kennedys The So-Called apparitional Issue delivered in Houston, Texas on September 12th, 1960. This speech was delivered ahead a crowd of Protestant ministers and their parishioners. Kennedy was under a illegal attack by people trying to portray him as a puppet of the Pope.  The purpose of this speech was to reassure the Association, a group of Protestant Ministers, that as a Roman Catholic, he would neither impose his Catholic religion on our country, nor hire secernates from the Pope. I chose to declaim this piece because, despite the secular character of our government, it addresses an dilute that never actually disappears in America; the order of religion on politics.
 
 
While the so-called religious issue is necessarily and properly the chief topic here tonight, I want to emphasize from the outset that we have far more(prenominal) critical issues to face in the 1960 election: These are the authorized issues which should decide this campaign. And they are not religious issues for war and thirst and ignorance and despair know no religious barriers.




 
But because I am a Catholic, and no Catholic has ever been elect chairwoman, the real issues in this campaign have been obscured perhaps deliberately, in some quarters less responsible than this. So it is obviously necessary for me to state once again not what potpourri of perform I count in for that should be master(prenominal) only to me but what kind of America I believe in.
 
I believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute, where no Catholic prelate would carve up the president (should he be Catholic) how to act, and no Protestant minister would tell his parishioners for whom to vote; where no church or church  groom is granted any public funds or policy-making preference; and where no man is denied public office barely because his religion differs...If you want to get a full essay, order it on our website: Ordercustompaper.com



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