Washington D.C., Dec 6, 2007 / 14:00 pm
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney delivered a historic speech this morning on the role that faith would play in his government. In his words, he would not serve “one religion” if he is elected as president of the United States.
Squaring off against those who “feel that religion is not a matter to be seriously considered,” the presidential contender invoked the nation’s founders. When the U.S. was in peril, Romney noted, the founders “sought the blessings of the Creator.”
The former governor of Massachusetts coupled freedom and religion together saying, "Freedom requires religion just as religion requires freedom….Freedom and religion endure together, or perish alone."
With the George Bush Library in College Station, Texas as his background,
Romney drew upon the legacy of John F. Kennedy’s 1960 speech on his Catholicism.