As a religious minority (I am an atheist - Spider Grandmotherist. I do my best to live by the two rules given tp the Hopi Indians by their Spider Grandmother: "Don't go around hurting folks. Try to learn about things.") I am sick of political candidates pandering to religious testing by fundamentalist preachers posturing in their megachurchs like modern day Elmer Gantrys and mainly questioning the candidates beliefs about Jesus, abortion, stem cell research, gay marriage and euthanasia.
Come to think of it, I think there used to be something in our U.S. Constitution banning this, but I suppose after almost 8 years of the Bush II presidency, and a majority of Democratic cowards and Republican crooks in our Congress and a criminal majority in the SCOTUS, that, like so many things in our constitution, the ban on religious testing no longer applies.
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