[Polycarp]

A fuming Kerry, taking on his own Catholic Church in the midst of a campaign for president, said Rome should have more respect for America's long-held separation of church and state.

``It is important not to have the church instructing politicians. That is an inappropriate crossing of the line in this country,'' Kerry said. ``President Kennedy drew that line very clearly in 1960 and I believe we need to stand up for that line today.''

The Democrat said political concerns are secondary to his moral outrage over Thursday's Vatican statement on gay marriage.

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[joesnuffy]

Thats funny...as president he will do what?...start issuing religous decrees?
Maybe "ketchup boy" should run for Pope

[Solson]

F*CK KERRY! I hope Ketchup Boy has a conversation with the Pope at the Gates of Heaven just before he's loaded on the elevator to Hell.

IT'S ABOUT TIME Catholic politicians start acting Catholic in what they support. Catholics should be royally pissed at benighted pricks like Kerry when "he's fuming" about the BELIEFS of the Catholic Church.

[LiteKeeper]

Recently I was reading a wonderful book by an old Dutch Reformed Theologian, Herman Bavinck (d. 1921). The topic of the book is Creation Theology. The apropo point he makes is that God is the God of all creation, not just of the Church. Kerry's "separation of church and state" is bogus. The institution of marriage was established long before there were civil governments, long before there was a separation of the sacred from the secular. Bavinck rightly contends that there is no separation, because God is God of all, whether Kerry and his associates want to admit it or not. God is still King of kings, and Lord of lords...and will be for all eternity.

[AKA Elena]

"It is important not to have the church instructing politicians,"

I guess it is not important to Catholics at all, to listen to the Holy Father and follow the Laws of Humanity and of the Church.

I am so sick of these hypocrites and cannot imagine the "mental reservation" that they MUST use as their own singular excuse for actual and factual flaunting of God's Laws.

I guess the question is " Who came first, the Person or the politician"?