[Alex Murphy]

....The Romney-Ryan ticket will be the first in the history of the country that does not include a member of one of the mainline Protestant denominations....

....About 186 men and two women have stood for election as president and/or vice-president. About 85 percent of these have been members of a mainline Protestant church. Episcopalians and Presbyterians lead, with about 40 percent of the candidates coming from one of those two denominations. There are about 20 candidates for whom I could not find a religious affiliation. There were only about a dozen that claimed membership in a non-Protestant religion, with most of those being Catholic. Only one Jew (Joe Lieberman) and one Greek Orthodox (Michael Dukakis) have been candidates.

[DannyTN]

And they will probably set the precedent for losing to the most unpopular president of all time.

[ilgipper]

Biden is Catholic. What mainline protestant denomination is Obama? I am pretty sure Rev Wright’s black liberation is not mainline protestant? I am wrong?

[bigbob]

I don’t care what any candidate’s religion - or skin color are. I care about what they believe and what kind of person they are.

[Charles Henrickson]

there is some issue about whether Mormonism, Romney's faith, is a Protestant denomination. . . . One poll found that 75 percent of Protestant clergy do not consider Mormons to be Christians, much less fellow Protestants.

Mormonism is not Christian. It is a heretical, anti-Trinitarian sect, a false, made-up religion.

But that does not mean a Mormon could not do a good job in a secular political office. I will be voting for one for President in November.

[dangus]

Since when is Rev. Wright “mainstream Protestantism?”

[DManA]

The WASPS all signed a mutual suicide pact in about 1925.