Please join us on Facebook for the latest science news and videos: tinyurl.com John F. Kennedy speaking before the Greater Houston Ministerial Association at the Rice Hotel in Houston, Texas on September 12, 1960. — Please subscribe to Science & Reason: • www.youtube.com • www.youtube.com • www.youtube.com • www.youtube.com — At this time Senator Kennedy was running for the Presidency and getting a lot of heat from people, because he was Catholic and the US had never had a Catholic President before. JFK stresses the importance of separation of church and state and condemns nations without religious liberty and tolerance. This speech angered the Pope and the Vatican. (c) Kennedy Library Foundation www.youtube.com .
John F. Kennedy On The Separation Of Church And State
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Impalamark64
October 18, 2010 at 3:00 am
This was quite a revolutionary speech in that time. When he was mentioning the individual religions, I was hoping to hear a reference about the non-religious, but that couldn’t happen in 1960.
Now, fifty years later, non-believers are 15% of the population, and gaining steadily. Maybe, in my lifetime, we can become a majority.
demondim5
October 18, 2010 at 3:15 am
@toiseywoisey //I believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute, where no Catholic prelate would tell the president, should he be Catholic, how to act, and no Protestant minister would tell his parishioners for whom to vote//
its right there man. doesnt sound like hes proposing a one way wall. to keep state out of church. actually sounds like the opposite, regardless of his reasons for the speech. just sayin.
pdxvanyel
October 18, 2010 at 4:08 am
Not only turn down the guitar, but get the aspect ratio right too
NUTCASE71733
October 18, 2010 at 4:12 am
@realdeal119
I happen to be Christian myself and I find you guys idiots, so shut the hell up.
KapteinisNemo
October 18, 2010 at 5:10 am
Could someone, please, turn out that guitar?
I’m trying to listen what JFK is saying.
KapteinisNemo
October 18, 2010 at 5:30 am
Could someone, please, turn out that guitar?
Jadaco
October 18, 2010 at 6:02 am
I’m compelled to point out that — while I greatly appreciate you uploading this first and foremost — I felt that given the old audio quality of the footage, the music doesn’t mesh well. It made it, for me, difficult to follow the speech. Perhaps this isn’t a problem for someone already familiar with the speech, but this is the first I’d ever heard it and the music was unfortunately a distraction. And note that I’m 27, with (as far as I know) normal hearing. Still, it may just be me.
toiseywoisey
October 18, 2010 at 6:32 am
This was a purely political speech to quell the then huge hatred, fears, and suspicions that the Protestants held for the Catholics! It has nothing to do with Thomas Jefferson’s letter to the Danbury Bishop where the real meaning of Church and state
lies. He was proposing a “one-way wall” to keep the State out of the Church and NOT the other way around! Think of it like California’s border fence. It wasn’t erected to keep US Citizens out of Mexico, but to keep illegal aliens out of California.
mailsparaapagar
October 18, 2010 at 6:36 am
@confusa115 imagine 200 years ago!
realdeal119
October 18, 2010 at 7:09 am
@Zentz29 Conspiracy site? hahah good one. John todd was ex illuminati. I suggest u do thorough research before making such comments. The guy was even set up and killed for exposing the stuff he did.
Zentz29
October 18, 2010 at 7:20 am
@realdeal119
that’s what you consider “proof” huh…you use a conspiracy site, to “prove” a conspiracy
you’re crazy…
do a google search for: “reptillian shape shifters are taking over the world”.
there are many people who can “prove” that it’s a fact by your standards! LOL
seriously, take it easy weirdo. i’m done here.
realdeal119
October 18, 2010 at 7:46 am
heres the link. Download audio 5b
letsrollforums(dot)com/audio-john-todd-illuminati-t18311(dot)html?s=acd0ea0e327d0426b2dceba2d1e8cb2d&
realdeal119
October 18, 2010 at 8:24 am
heres the link. Download audio 5b
letsrollforums(dot)com/audio-john-todd-illuminati-t18311(dot)html?s=acd0ea0e327d0426b2dceba2d1e8cb2d&
realdeal119
October 18, 2010 at 9:22 am
@Zentz29 Your the moron who wont except the truth, I didnt ignore anything, Im still looking for the video on here. And besides, u dont even need the video to prove it. You can google it. Just cause you have too much time on your hands and u can always reply instantly doesnt mean im ignoring u. Like i said before, research JOHN TOdd. U prob didnt do that cause youre in denial.
Zentz29
October 18, 2010 at 10:07 am
@realdeal119
stop being a moron, and start “learning”..
Zentz29
October 18, 2010 at 11:03 am
@realdeal119
does this information “prove” that kennedy was killed because he was chirstian?
Zentz29
October 18, 2010 at 11:22 am
@realdeal119 “Kennedy was killed cause he became christain. proven fact”
You said it. Can you prove what you claim to be fact?
of course you can’t…you just ignore people who disagree with you.
you are the average conspirsy loving weirdo.
you make BOLD claims, but can’t back them up.
i DARE you to “prove” what you said is true…
let me make this as simple as i can…
YOU said “Kennedy was killed cause he became christain. proven fact”
STOP saying stuff, & LEARN stuff…
realdeal119
October 18, 2010 at 12:17 pm
@Zentz29 research ex illuminati member john todd. He talks about kennedy and kennedys minister
Zentz29
October 18, 2010 at 1:11 pm
@realdeal119 how was this “proven fact”?
realdeal119
October 18, 2010 at 1:34 pm
@Zentz29 Insane? ahahah you idiot. What do u think norvus ordo seclunum means on the back of the one dollar bill? Your reality is a fake and u dont even know it, Kennedy was killed cause he became christain. proven fact.
Zentz29
October 18, 2010 at 1:41 pm
@realdeal119 LMAO!!
i love comming across conspiracy theory nut-bags like you!
you’re soooo funny!
the illuminati’s commin ta get ya! LOL
it’s sad that you’ll never understand how insane you are… =-(
ostralopithicus
October 18, 2010 at 2:11 pm
JFK was a great thinker. Here’s another great one of his speeches –
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onikage187
October 18, 2010 at 2:27 pm
too bad a lot of the things he was against happen today
realdeal119
October 18, 2010 at 3:10 pm
@riverlioness are u kidding me? Your falling right into the trap. The Illuminati wants religion gone. they didnt create nor are they using it to control people. They want an athiest society just like albert pike said so they can give people chips and usher in global satanism. People need to stop calling religious people idiots cause in reality, the religious people are the ones who are morally intact in most cases. Kennedy was a christain so i guess he was an idiot too ehhh? i dont think so.
realdeal119
October 18, 2010 at 3:46 pm
@myxoluser kennedy want not against religion. He was a christain. thats one of the reasons he was killed