Santorum and Kennedy

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I understand that Santorum has disagreed with John Kennedy's argument that the separation of church and state should be absolute. He then went on to say what he thought an "absolute separation of church and state" would mean. To him it means that no discussion of public policy could involve religion. All public policy debates would have to be secular in nature. It seems to me that in his mind that would mean that you could not even ask the question of whether the C Church should be required to buy insurance. You could only say "should an organization be required to buy insurance for employees". With that definition of separation of church and State I don't think I would go along either. But most of us don't use that as a definition of SOCAS. We use one that even Santorum might very well agree with.

So I would say he flubbed it by assuming that we all agreed about what SOCAS means when he should have talked about definitions. I think that most people would say that they agree with an absolute SOCAS, but they mean something much less dramatic that his version.

He shot himself in the foot with that one. That is why I think he will collapse. The only question is whether it will happen before or after the Rs have made their choice. I think it will be before.
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