[Sca-cooks] The Fallwell/Robertson statements - was, Fw: Threats

[Ted Eisenstein]

>I'm not quite old enough to remember some of the anti-Catholic
>sentiments expressed during JFK's presidential campaign, Phillipa, are
>you? I gather they were mostly a retread of the nastiness spread about
>Al Smith and various others.

At least some of those sentiments centered around to whom a
Catholic president would owe allegiance. As president, he'd owe some
to the people, of course - but there were those who worried that, as a
Catholic, he'd have to owe allegiance as well to the Pope.

Alban