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...part of the frat almost in that she comes to the events and helps with organization and helps us become better brothers,” said Robert Cecot ’08, another brother of Sigma Chi. After flying to California as one of three finalists and delivering her speech, Berkey became the only International Sweetheart to not be a member of a sorority since John Wayne crowned the first back in 1948. “She is someone who is close to a frat but not member for obvious reasons but is one of us in character and personality...
Whenever a presidential candidate decides to give a speech about religious faith, he is taking his political career into his own hands...
...Mitt Romney's vow to deliver a speech on Thursday about faith and politics will probably end up being general in nature, as much about our faith as his. Romney, a Mormon, decided to give the address around the time he fell behind Mike Huckabee in Iowa, where an outsize proportion of the state's Republicans are evangelical Christians and in some cases take a dim view of Mormonism...
...Romney's remarks have been compared to John F. Kennedy's famous 1960 speech in Houston about the role his Catholicism would play if he were elected. In that speech, Kennedy told a group of (mostly Baptist) Texas preachers that if he ever faced a choice between violating his conscience or the national interest, he would resign the office...
...first is context. Kennedy was in the last weeks of a general election campaign. Romney has yet to be tested in a single primary. Kennedy gave his speech after an assembly of 150 anti-Catholic clergy issued a 2,000-word manifesto stating that no Catholic President could really be free of Vatican control. Though some Evangelical leaders have been publicly critical of Mormonism, no such charge has been laid at Romney's door. And though both men chose Texas as the place to give their remarks, the venues are very different. Kennedy spoke in the lion's den, addressing...