I recognize no power in the institutions of my church to interfere with the operations of the Constitution of the United States or the enforcement of the law of the land. I believe in absolute freedom of conscience for all men and in equality of all churches, all sects, and all beliefs before the law as a matter of right and not as a matter of favor. I believe in the absolute separation of church and state.
If I'm not mistaken he was thrown over at the convention for FDR.
I was reading an interesting chapter of Profiles in Courage about George Norris, R-NE supporting him instead of Hoover and taking the flack for it. It was interesting to see that prohibition was the wedge issue of their day. It all sounded so much like today with the exception of the different wedge issue, altho it was also being fought on "moral" grounds.
Smith was the first Roman Catholic to win a major party presidential nomination. As a Democrat, he failed to carry even the "solid South", no doubt because of his faith and his wet position on Prohibition.
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