When atheists get righteously indignant, you know you’re doing something right.

That’s what happened after Mitt Romney’s highly-anticipated speech on religion this past week. Romney freaked out the Keith Olbermann clones by only mentioning the word “Mormon” once and asserting that religion does indeed have a role in public life.

The speech was excellent. He took it to people who don’t want religion anywhere near public offices:

Freedom and religion endure together, or perish alone.

In recent years, the notion of the separation of church and state has been taken by some well beyond its original meaning. They seek to remove from the public domain any acknowledgment of God. Religion is seen as merely a private affair with no place in public life. It is as if they are intent on establishing a new religion in America – the religion of secularism. They are wrong.

Eat it, atheists. Just eat it. A top-tier candidate talking about religion in public places. Ooh, it must burn, atheists. I can feel you clenching your fists already.

Hey! It’s such a great speech, we have more:

We should acknowledge the Creator as did the Founders – in ceremony and word. He should remain on our currency, in our pledge, in the teaching of our history, and during the holiday season, nativity scenes and menorahs should be welcome in our public places.

I mean, this is just straight up gangsta on the part of Romney. He’s doing it right. He’s tolerant of all faiths, so you can’t put him in the same boat they’re putting Huckabee in. But he’s also taking a hard stand against secularism. That will resonate with more than just Mormons.

In fact, a lot of this speech did well to separate him from Mormonism:

Let me assure you that no authorities of my church, or of any other church for that matter, will ever exert influence on [my] presidential decisions. Their authority is theirs, within the province of church affairs, and it ends where the affairs of the nation begin.

That was the right button to push. Just him saying that was all I needed (I don’t know about you).

In a funny story, he also quoted John Adams:

In John Adams’ words: ‘We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion… Our constitution was made for a moral and religious people.’

And a liberal thought Romney said this, and called it a dangerous way of thinking. And it was a founding father quote! Just more evidence liberals hate America, our constitution, and the people who created both.

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