Religion and Politics

The actual religion of a person means nothing to me. It's how they implement their religious beliefs in their reactions that I'm vigilant of. My own candidate is a Christian. I disagree with him on several things - mostly his faith based view of the world. However, I feel this person can rationally make a distinction between personal religious beliefs and political beliefs, so they have earned a modicum of trust in not entwining the two unnecessarily. I would rather see a Christian, Jew, Muslim, or Hindu as president if I agreed with them, rather than an atheist who I disagree with on political and economical issues.

His religious affiliation doesn't bother me, but I think that a person who is running for the presidency should have some kind of religious affiliation because that person's mindset should reflect the people who they wish to serve. Matter of fact all the people whether there religious or not.

To me is is important that the person have strong principals and that they follow those principals. What I can't stand is a person who has no basic principals and makes decisions based not on what is right or wrong but what is best for me and my friends (supporters). Which church he/she is affiliated with is not that major a concern to me.

For me, having a certain faith or not doesn't really affect my choice in President. The only way it does affect it is if I feel the candidate is bringing too much of their faith into their campaign. In the USA, there is supposed to be separation of church and state. Having faith is a great thing, but if a candidate is so wrapped up in their faith that it drips into their campaign, it makes me think that their decisions will be strongly influenced by their faith, which to me makes that person undesirable for President. This is even if the candidate has similar or even the same faith as my own. The United States is made up of many faiths and the freedom to choose the one we want. To make decisions based on one faith makes society unfair for every other faith that resides in this country

Pretty important. I want to make sure the person will protect the rights that we have, and most atheists don't give a hoot if I can worship or not.

Personally, it really doesn't as long as they don't force their religion on me. I do find it ironic that many republicans want this country run like a business, but most people don't care what religion their boss is. On Wall Street they don't care what religion anyone is, as long as they perform it doesn't matter. There are groups on both sides that care about religion, but I think the American people as a whole would rather see results than religion.