You are missing my whole point. Let me go at this from another direction. My husband is an atheist. I love him dearly. He is a wonderful person. I would not vote for an atheist for President. I wouldn't vote for my husband if he ran for President.
A person does not have to be the devil incarnate for you to disagree with his ideology and not want to vote for him because of that ideology.
There is no religious test for candidates to run for the office of President, but that does not mean that each and every individual does not take into account the different candidates ideologies when they are making a decision on their vote. There is nothing un-American about wanting to vote for someone that shares your own ideology.
Asking questions about another person's faith and questioning them about their beliefs is not bashing if it's done in a respectful manner. The problem that we have here is not that people are questioning and debating about the Mormon faith, but that a few rude people are being disrespectful and a few thin-skinned people are getting bent out of shape because anyone dares to question at all.
if it’s done in a respectful manner.
A concept lost. I haven’t seen much of this where the drive by media is concerned and FreeRepublic is going through its own troubling times in regards to respect. A lot of noobs that didn’t grow up in the respect age? Who knows, but it is so prevalent, it can hardly be avoided.