Just When Did We Lose Sight of the Jeffersonian Principle Of Seperation of Church and State?...
by: Les Carpenter Rational Nation USA Liberty -vs- Tyranny The Hill - Sens. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) and Rob Portman (R-Ohio), two vice presidential favorites, took very different tacks during their speeches at the Faith & Freedom Coalition's lunch on Thursday. Portman focused on intensely personal anecdotes that underlined his faith, including how he quit a job in the first Bush White House to be with his mother after she was diagnosed with cancer, while Rubio delivered a sweeping speech about faith and American exceptionalism that had the religious, conservative audience on its feet on a half-dozen occasions. "If we turn to our creator for comfort and for guidance, what do we find? We find that our faith is deepened," Portman told the audience before telling a story of deciding to quit to return to Ohio for his mother, calling it "the best decision I ever made." Rubio, on the other hand, went big, giving a speech that ranged from the early Christi...