From: "John Beamish" 

Four or five of out last seven or eight PMs have been Roman Catholic and we
had a bunch before then.  Focusing on the candidate's religion seems, well,
so unseemly and a waste of time.

Who would you rather have as president:  someone who qualifies because he
was born American or someone who made the deliberate choice to be American?

(I know it's arduous to change it ... but changing it to ban beverage alcohol!?!?!?)


"Jeff Shultz"  wrote in message
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> >>
> Changing the constitution is a fairly arduous and time consuming process.
> Unless there appears to be a very good reason to change it... why bother?
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> I can see many good points to guaranteeing that the Chief Executive's
> first and only national loyalty be to the USA. Which yes, does tend to be
> a reason that Roman Catholics were viewed with suspicion on those grounds
> - after all, wouldn't their first loyalty be to the Vatican?
>
> No problem with that in Kerry... he's practically an ethnic RC rather than
> a practicing one, from what I can tell.
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