Rick Santorum does not believe in separation of church/state

Would be president of our land, Rick Santorum, lost both the Michigan and Arizona primaries yesterday. Not that surprising about Arizona, since that state has a good libertarian streak to it, and doesn't very much like people who want to regulate their bedrooms. Santorum had stated in a speech that he wanted to "throw up" when he listened to President Kennedy's speech of half a century ago. This is what Kennedy had stated:

"I believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute; where no Catholic prelate would tell the President -- should he be Catholic -- how to act, and no Protestant minister would tell his parishioners for whom to vote; where no church or church school is granted any public funds or political preference, and where no man is denied public office merely because his religion differs from the President who might appoint him, or the people who might elect him.

I believe in an America that is officially neither Catholic, Protestant nor Jewish; where no public official either requests or accept instructions on public policy from the Pope, the National Council of Churches or any other ecclesiastical source; where no religious body seeks to impose its will directly or indirectly upon the general populace or the public acts of its officials, and where religious liberty is so indivisible that an act against one church is treated as an act against all."

Santorum states that this would mean that people of faith have no place in government. No, though I would not want Santorum as my president because he literally is the Christian rightwing version of the Mullahs of Iran. I wonder though, does Santorum than believe that those laws on the state legal books that prohibited atheists from running for public office, mainly in the Bible Belt, be revoked?

While not enforceable, if Santorum becomes president and appoints justices who make Scalia and Clarence Thomas look like ACLU lawyers, than the Supreme Court might reverse that decision and allow these bans to be in effect. There are still quite a few on the religious rightwing who want these bans to stay, why else are they still on the books of these states when obviously unconstitutional?

Because it would be political suicide in these states for a politician to come out for the right of an atheist to run and get elected to public office. So Santorum put your money where your mouth is, call for an immediate revoking of these bans. I wouldn't hold my breath.