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Somewhat surprised to hear Dennis Kucinich speaking against the separation of \u201cspiritual values\u201d and state<\/a> in yesterday\u2019s Democratic debate, God-o-Meter did some digging and discovered that the Catholic Kucinich grew up studying the lives of the saints and Scripture in Latin<\/a>. In 2004, The Christian Science Monitor<\/em> called him possibly the \u201cmost overtly spiritual of the Democratic candidates.\u201d Oh what a difference three years makes.<\/p>\n


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Somewhat surprised to hear Dennis Kucinich speaking against the separation of \u201cspiritual values\u201d and state in yesterday\u2019s Democratic debate, God-o-Meter did some digging and discovered that the Catholic Kucinich grew up studying the lives of the saints and Scripture in Latin. 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