KEEP YOUR FUCKING RELIGION OUT OF POLITICS

If you want to "follow" some religious belief, or "believe in" someone's religious dogma, that's totally up to you. Just keep it the hell out of politics in this country.

From The Albany Times-Union via Information Clearing House :

Keep Religion Away From the Ballot

By Larry Beinhart

October 25, 2008

The Constitution, Article VI, Section 3, states "no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust under the United States."

James Madison, the primary author of the Constitution, said, "An alliance or coalition between Government and religion cannot be too carefully guarded against."

Here's Theodore Roosevelt: "If there is one thing for which we stand in this country, it is for complete religious freedom, and it is an emphatic negation of this right to cross- examine a man on his religion before being willing to support him for office."

In 1979, four conservative activists, Paul Weyrich, Terry Dolan, Richard Viguerie (all Catholics) and Howard Phillips (a Jew who'd become an evangelical Christian) were looking for wedge issues to break up the Democratic Party. Right-wing economics and foreign policies had no popular appeal. So they came up with abortion, opposition to gay rights and (thinly disguised) racism, concerns that could be found clustered among religious conservatives. They recruited a minister, Jerry Falwell, funded him with corporate money and started the Moral Majority.

It succeeded beyond their wildest dreams. The Religious Right became the base of the Republican Party, and the GOP gained control of federal government for the first time since the Great Depression.

The rest is here: The Albany Times-Union , or here: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21085.htm

We don't need our country run by a bunch of religious nuts!
Whenever religion takes control of a government bad things happen.
Wars are started and innocent people die needlessly.
Think about how many wars have been started in the name of "god", or "allah"....now think of how many billions, yes billions, of people have suffered and died because one group didn't believe what another group believed. Gee...kinda like Iran, or Nazi Germany.....or Israel with the Palestinians.