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Here's the rub as I see it. I don't want a government run by amoral people, people who can't be trusted. If you can't keep your hands off other people's money, or keep your vows to your wife, why should I trust you with the great powers of government? That my mean you have a concept of right and wrong that you believe was handed down by your deity, or it might be the result of careful introspection, or the culmination of three thousand years of Western philosophy. I don't much care why you do the right thing, so long as you do so.

On the other hand, not only don't I want to live in a theocracy of any sort. I don't want want the government prescribing and proscribing acts when it's not necessary. I do not want a government to impose even my own preferences on me and my neighbors. The rub is in how you decide what's necessary. I think the best idea we ever came up with with choosing people who loved liberty and freedom to make those decisions for us. It didn't work perfectly, but it worked.

So, given the choice between voting for a saint who wanted to solve my problems for me, and a guy who, while not a criminal and not untrustworthy, had feet of clay, but believed that people should, whenever possible, make their own decisions and their own living, who do I vote for?

I guess that means I'm not a values voter?