Rick Freedman at World on Fire has drafted a speech for John Kerry on the matter of religion, values and politics. It’s a fine job. In NewMexiKen’s opinion, Kerry’s candidacy and – more importantly – the nation would be served if Kerry actually delivered it, or something very much like it. It is, sadly, a different world today, but a speech of this nature could help neutralize the religion issue, not unlike John Kennedy’s address to the Greater Houston Ministerial Association did in 1960.
NewMexiKen particularly liked Freedman’s use of Martin Luther King’s “Letter from a Birmingham Jail.”
The speech begins about seven paragraphs down the column, not that you should skip the discussion that precedes it.