Fish pronounces Santorum "not crazy"

I suppose, given all the givens, it would have been too much to expect the Times to run a headline that said "Actually, if the terms and ideas at issue are properly understood, Rick Santorum is correct."  Still, that's basically the upshot of Stanley Fish's latest Opinionator piece.  Putting aside the foolishness of putting one's criticisms of then-Senator Kennedy's speech as Santorum did (and noting, just for the record, that I am not a supporter of his candidacy), there's no getting around the fact that very smart, thoughtful, non-"crazy" people have expressed pretty much the same concerns about the content of the Kennedy speech as Santorum did.  (Besides me!)  In particular, I'd recommend Michael McConnell's essay, in the Notre Dame Law Review, "Is There Still a Catholic Question:  Reflecting on John F. Kennedy's Speech to the Houston Ministerial Association."