Church and State separation gone too far, says Mitt Romney

Don’t see much difference between Moderate Mitt and Obama?

Here’s one: Romney has come out vigorously against church-state separation, sounding as though he’s taken some talking points from David Barton, while Obama simply panders quietly to the religious groups.

The Republican presidential candidate complained that the US founding fathers’ celebrated detachment of government from religious faith "has been taken by some well beyond its original meaning".

"They seek to remove from the public domain any acknowledgement of God," said Mr Romney, who is a devout Mormon. "Religion is seen as merely a private affair with no place in public life.

"The Founders proscribed the establishment of a state religion, but they did not countenance the elimination of religion from the public square".

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Mr Obama, who is accused by Mr Romney of “waging war on religion” by mandating employers to pay for contraception as part of staff health insurance plans, offered a sharply contrasting view on the relationship between religion and government.

“The constitutional principle of a separation between church and state has served our nation well since our founding embraced by people of faith and those of no faith at all throughout our history and it has been paramount in our work,” he said.

Romney is fully prepared to make use of the religious right’s “oppressed majority” whine to get votes, no matter how much more division he creates in the process. What kind of a man does such a thing?

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