| [quote=Isherwood;495576]Too bad all the candidates feel the need to pander to the religious. Why can't we have a ballsy candidate who answers, "Why do you need to know about my faith? I'm not running for Pope."[/QUOTE)
For one reason is that they have such beliefs that are simular to the majority of other Americans and therefore those who are athiests or who are concerned about consitutional values have the right to know if or how those beliefs might influence their policy making, especailly realitive to social issues or those choices that should be done in private by our citizens. Would they push for religious agendas? would they appoint judges based on some bias that is motivated by religious goals?
And if so, how would they go about doing that.
They both went into detail about those very concerns. McCain refused to talk about his religious motivations although he pandered to the right wing religions in his view that abortion is immoral. |