Santorum Makes Case for Religion in Public Sphere

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/27/us/politics/santorum-makes-case-for-religion-in-public-sphere.html?_r=1&ref=todayspaper

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From: barry levine 
Date: Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 9:43 AM
Subject: re: Santorum Makes Case for Religion in Public Sphere
To: letters@nytimes.com


To the Editor:

   More than one speech in 1960 separates senator Santorum from president Kennedy. Between the two stands the Enlightenment.  President Kennedy embraced our Founding Fathers' vision of a world in which individuals "endowed by our Creator with certain inalienable Rights" have power (including he power to form a legitimate government) and authority (including the authority to question received wisdom).  Senator Santorum offers to take us back to the seventeenth century, in which power and authority belonged to institutions instead.  He has a right to his beliefs and a right to express them in speech and in print. We the people reserve the right to reject them.

Barry Haskell Levine