JFK got it right on religion's role

Since religion is a politically charged issue in presidential political campaigns with the GOP, Americans who have got Internet entree should read the written computer address or position the address of Sen. Toilet F. Kennedy, the Democratic presidential candidate, before the Greater Houston Ministerial Association.

Kennedy spoke of his Catholic faith and how it would impact his presidential term should he be elected. The address was brilliant and have relevancy today.

I believe, as Jack Kennedy believed, in United States that the Fundamental Law is to be followed in Article six requiring no spiritual diagnostic test for public office. Jack Jack Kennedy shared many guiding rules on church-state relations, whereas had they been maintained through diligence and vigilance, the state and the Christian church would not be so dissentious and polarized now.

Kennedy was ahead of his clip and is odd by any current politicians.

The Fundamental Law states that the basic makings for the business office of president have got to make with a candidate's age, citizenship and birthplace. Religion had nil to make with it.

It looks that an utmost component of Protestantism, which was the rampart of spiritual autonomy in this state through the brave labours of Roger William Carlos Williams and his Baptist faith, have go the hammer for spiritual tests.

Believe what you will about faith and politics. Whenever the couple unite, the former victims of spiritual intolerance, banishment and subjugation upon reaching political powerfulness soon go the provokers of the majority's volition in the suppression of minority rights of those whose faith, or no faith, differs from the dominant religion.Isaiah J. AsheHuntsville