Listen, most voters include character in how they weigh a candidate -- it's not just some cold, robotic impersonal issues assessment. Don't get me wrong, issues & values are extremely important, but you can't separate candidate from character; and you can't separate character from faith.
Example: If a candidate has no faith -- if they believe they become worms when they die, then they don't believe in ultimate accountability. Politicians have enough trouble already with accountability without erasing it even more.
Now, take a temple Mormon. Temple Mormons believe they will one day become gods of their own planet/star. If they believe the rhetoric of their leaders, they, in fact, already believe they are a "god-in-embryo". Do you really think conservative Christian voters appreciate voting for somebody who thinks they are right a "god in embryo?"
You can't get around it. Otherly dimensional beliefs affect what people do this side of death. By all means, let's take everything about a candidate into consideration -- including whether they pay their taxes or not...cause that's a character issue, too!
“Listen, most voters include character in how they weigh a candidate — it’s not just some cold, robotic impersonal issues assessment. Don’t get me wrong, issues & values are extremely important, but you can’t separate candidate from character; and you can’t separate character from faith.”
There are people of good character in every religion and denomination. Conversely, there are people of poor character in every religion and denomination.
Where do you stop the litmus test?
No Mormons, no Lutherans, no Catholics, no Evangelical, no Methodists, no Presbyterians, no Baptists...how about people who pray differently, stoics versus charismatic...
Where does it stop?
DITTO!, My FRiend!