All this fluff about his religion and deep faith reads like a satire. I could be wrong, but he seemed to be his own god in many ways. How else could you consistently vote against bans on partial-birth abortion, among many other things?
Ted Kennedy was a blessed man. Many, many people don’t know when their hour of reckoning is approaching. He knew. He was given that chance at repentence and forgiveness. Did he take it? Who knows.
God knows.
I do not.
I make no comment and pass no judgment on his final destination. That's above my paygrade.
His legislative and political legacy is another matter entirely; it is completely within my competence to judge.
His legacy is one of pure, unmitigated evil.
You can thank his brother, John. In 1960, Kennedy was the Democratic nominee for president and abortion was illegal and not a campaign issue. Kennedy said he favored strict separation of church and state "where no public official either requests or accepts instructions from the pope, the National Council of Churches or any other ecclesial source."
"Whatever issue may come before me as president -- on birth control, divorce, censorship, gambling or any other subject -- I will make my decision in accordance with these views, in accordance with what my conscience tells me to be the national interest," Kennedy said. "No power or threat of punishment could cause me to decide otherwise," Kennedy said to the Greater Houston Ministerial Association, a predominantly Protestant group.
The day he found out, he knew there wasn't enough time for all the repenting and penance he had to do. He should have started years ago.