First of all, "very few" doesn't equal zero. Secondly, as an example, over 20% of self-id'd homosexuals voted for Pres. Bush. You can't stereotype every atheist or every homosexual according to your pre-conceived idea of what every atheist believes. You can speak of generalities and be generically true. That doesn't make it absolutely so.
You make it a "straw man" only because you choose to give no weight to what a minority of folks within a certain identity trait might believe and practice.
Just because most Mormons don't practice polygamy doesn't mean we won't one day have a polygamist Mormon run for public office somewhere. (Oh wait a minute...I guess there are certain mayors & city council members who already qualify under that description)
Oh, good grief. I guess you stand squarely in the basher camp.
Well, I’ll cop to it, even if some others won’t.
I would have no trouble with an atheist president, or a Mormon, or any of the other belief systems commonplace to the western world.
As others far more clever than I have said, we’re not electing a pope/bishop/whatever, we’re electing the president of a republic, the constitution of which appears to be an entirely secular document, regardless of how religion may have informed the beliefs of its writers.
(ducking)