Noonan: We’re making too much of politicians’ religious faith

“But it is an odd thing that as a nation we seemed more liberal on these issues then than today. I think of JFK hearing that Martin Luther King Jr.’s father said he wouldn’t vote for Kennedy because he was Catholic. Kennedy is reported to have said, ‘Imagine Martin Luther King’s father being a bigot!’ Then, being Jack Kennedy, he detached and said philosophically, ‘But then we all have our fathers.'”