I would like to point out for the record that the 60% who would never vote for an atheist is why we have so much religious fakery in D.C. today. Does anybody believe all these folks are religious? Heck no. They know that they can't win if they don't pretend to be religious. For me that is absolutely worse than reality. We should allow atheists to run and win on issues. However, if an atheist, small government conservative who was for 2nd amendment, low taxes, border security, strong military went out and said they were an atheist too, they would lose to a big government liberal who went to church even if they didn't mean it. That's a problem I think.
Good points, sort of what I was trying to get at. Heck, for that matter, how many of those who profess to be "Christians" in their day to day lives, are really just going through the motions?