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CatholicExchange.com ^ | 04-20-06 | Ken Concannon

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I can't imagine why you would think such a thing! Since I have access to Nexis, here is a biographical item that will help dispel that rumor, if it's ever even reached rumor status.

What an amazing idea, that Specter was ever Catholic!

The Associated Press

March 30, 1995, Thursday, AM cycle

HEADLINE: Arlen Specter: Son of Poor Immigrants Aims for White House

BYLINE: By ANICK JESDANUN, Associated Press Writer

DATELINE: WASHINGTON

BODY:
Growing up in small-town Kansas, Arlen Specter labored many an afternoon alongside his immigrant father, unloading piles of scrap metal rods from trucks and railroad cars for resale.
It was sweaty, backbreaking work - yet for Harry Specter it was a step up from peddling blankets and cantaloupes door to door from a jalopy.
He owned this junkyard, and with tenacity and endurance, the business thrived during World War II and allowed the Russian Jewish emigre to send his four children to college.
"It was tough to make a living," recalls Arlen, the youngest child. "My father had to be strong and persistent."
A high school friend, Gene Balloun, was blunter: "You bet it involved heavy lifting and hard work, particularly during the summer time in Russell."
Russell, Kansas. Population 5,500. Harry Specter, who fled religious persecution as a boy in the Ukraine, had settled in a prairie town with not a single other Jew.
By strange coincidence, Specter grew up in the same town that produced Bob Dole, his fellow senator - and now his competitor for the Republican presidential nomination.
At Russell High School, Specter was an all-American boy, starring in drama productions, winning debate tournaments and playing quarterback on the varsity football team.
Friends say his childhood circumstances made him who he is today: determined, tough, independent-minded.
Specter, now a 65-year-old, three-term U.S. senator from Pennsylvania, con-siders his father's triumphs the embodiment of the American dream, a fulfillment that friends say drove him to a career in public life. And to seek the ultimate goal in American politics.
"When you grow up as somebody who has to hang onto your beliefs, it certainly prepares you to speak out as the minority on a variety of issues," said Ruth DuBois, a close friend who met Specter while he attended Yale Law School. "It becomes part of your makeup, part of your character."
Specter left Kansas for college in 1947 because the University of Kansas, where his best friends were headed, did not have Jewish fraternities.
"It was a very isolating factor," Specter said. "Being Jewish really excluded me."

The article continues, but that much of it should put the idea of conversion to rest.