And what if the Catholics didn’t select a Hitler Youth and Nazi conscript as their spiritual leader?
For every Adolf Hitler there is an Albino Luciani.
Religion is not a reliable gauge of a man’s Character.
> I don’t think it is inappropriate to consider what candidates believe about universal truths in deciding how to vote, or to consider the records of organizations to which they belong.
I don’t think it is a reliable gauge, either. And History proves me right.
> It isn’t bigotry to decline to vote for Robert Byrd solely because of his KKK affiliation, is it?
No, it isn’t: if you are prepared to overlook the fact that many of the Founding Fathers kept slaves and saw nothing wrong with that. Would you have voted for them?
Hmmm. Don’t know. At the time, slavery was viewed radically differently, and it would be hubris to assume had I been alive then that I would’ve been immune to an environment of justification, no matter how weak those justifications seem today.
“Religion is not a reliable gauge of a man’s Character.”
And what would be? His shoe size?
Now you might claim something like “his business character”, but it is my observation that businessmen who are honest tend to have a moral structure undergirding their behavior.