Addresses Quote by Penn Jillette

Kennedy believed in religious liberty and the separation of church and state. He did not believe in the right of elected officials to impose…

— Jack Schlossberg

It's funny that there was so much disturbance about having a Catholic in the White House with Kennedy, and when we finally get a…

— Roger Ebert

The fact that President-elect Kennedy would be the first Catholic president did not sit well with many Americans. There was a fear that, as…

— Clint Hill

“A second key decision by Kennedy concerned his Catholicism, which led many Protestants, including Norman Vincent Peale, to question whether he ought to be…

— James T. Patterson

“I believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute; where no Catholic prelate would tell the President -- should…

— John F. Kennedy

“There are a whole lot of religious people in America, including the majority of Democrats. When we abandon the field of religious discourse—when we…

— Barack Obama

“Religion hurts people.”

— David Silverman

Electing the first Catholic president, my grandfather, in 1960, did not mean that religious intolerance disappeared from our land.

— Jack Schlossberg

“Religion is no longer considered the source of serious truth claims that could potentially conflict with public agendas. The private realm has been reduced…

— Nancy Pearcey

“He spent a very uncomfortable few moments trying to remember his prepared position for explaining to God that he had nonetheless been right not…

— Christopher Brookmyre

“Religion only serves to add more narrow-minded, ignorant, bigoted, discriminatory and hateful people to the world.”

— Al Stefanelli

So, in Kennedy's case, he was a Catholic. And people thought after the Al Smith election and so forth that a Catholic couldn't win…

— Geoffrey Cowan