Catholicism did not shape Kennedy’s political thought in the way that Islam may inform the Michigan Senate candidate’s.
Trying to put some distance between himself and the jihadist Muslim Brotherhood, Michigan’s Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate, Abdul El-Sayed, has taken to analogizing fears about his being a Muslim to the attacks during the 1960 presidential campaign on John F. Kennedy’s Catholicism.
If only.
While some biographers contend that JFK became more religiously serious in the wake of the October 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis and the August 1963 death of his infant son Patrick, there is little evidence that Catholicism ever shaped Kennedy’s political thought. For JFK, Catholicism was more of an ethnic marker than a matter of personal conviction ...
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