Nearly a half-century after JFK's famous speech about the "so-called religious issue," Mitt Romney took the stage in an attempt to bolster his presidential candidacy. Whereas JFK's address directly made the point that his faith should not be a divisive political issue, Romney's address came off as a clarification that his religion is actually quite similar to a particular line of faith.
Kennedy understood better how absolute religious freedom best serves all faiths in America:
"I believe in an America that is officially neither Catholic, Protestant nor Jewish—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—where no religious body seeks to impose its will directly or indirectly upon the general populace or the public acts of its officials—and where religious liberty is so indivisible that an act against one church is treated as an act against all."
