You can’t be consistent in saying you don’t care what a candidate’s religion is, can you? Think about what beliefs someone might have about God that might make them dangerous as a leader if they followed those beliefs. So knowing what they believe God thinks they should do is very important.
We’ve had Protestent presidents, a Catholic president, some with no “religion” but who attended the National Cathedral, anyway, and have Muslim in Congress (I may be wrong on that ~ he may be in the House or the Senate.)
If a person says he’s Catholic but believes in birth control/abortions, or says he’s Bhuddist but kills insects, which part of that person’s beliefs am I apt to vote for?
I will vote for the person who not only SAYS he believes something, but ACTS as if he believes it, both in public and in private.
If you told me every morning before you went to work that you loved me, but the rest of our time together was spent in you beating me up physically, emotionally or sexually, what am I going to believe? That you love me? Or that you lie?
Sarah Palin has shown her beliefs in everything she has done. Her life has been under public scrutiny for a long time, and to my mind, she has filled all my expectations. Maybe because I can read between the lines of her public life and see that she is honorable.
As for “not being consistent” if I say I don’t care what a candidate’s religion is, what is inconsistent about it? I’m not going to NOT vote for an otherwise qualified candidate just because that persons religion isn’t the same as mine.
We are all guided by personal revelation. However, that revelation stops at the walls of our families, and does NOT extend into someone else’s family, just because we think it should.
Last time I looked, Sarah Palin was an American, an Alaskan, and a governor. Her political past determines her political future. A lot of people profess no religion at all, and yet they are kind, generous and obedient to the Ten Commandments.
God will tell Sarah what is best for her to do. It’s not my job, or anyone elses, to second-guess either one of them.