Non-sequitur. This is not your home, nor your church.
Analogy would culminate in hosting caucus threads on YOUR computer. Nobody would have a problem with that.
I don’t know why you think it matters whether “Nobody would have a problem”. This is not your home, or my home.
This is Free Republic, a site with an owner who enforces a set of rules through moderators appointed by the owner.
Those moderators have decided that in this home, there WILL be rooms where discussion is limited, and where special rules apply. If you don’t like that, it’s too bad, because this isn’t your home so you don’t make the rules.
If this were MY home, we wouldn’t have religion forum at all. I think that mixing religion and politics weakens us politically, because people who would otherwise be allies end up being enemies over religious differences.
I see that between Mormons and Christians, and sometimes between Catholics and Protestants, and also between fundamentalists and those who take a lax view of religion and the Bible. We have schisms between strong conservatives over evolution here as well.
But this isn’t my site, and I am happy to abide by the rules set by the site owner, as a condition for being allowed to play in his sandbox.