Quote Originally Posted by Psycho4Bud
I've thought about this and I believe it should stay here for the following reason: Every aspect of a persons life, professional and personal, is under the magnifying glass when they run for of office. Faith, age, friends, contributors...it's all on the plate.
Yes, this is the right forum.

To me the legitimate issue is not so much what a person's religion is. The issue is to what extent their religion will affect their policy agenda. Will a given candidate use their political power to push a religious agenda?

Many of the bioethics and medical ethics debates about government policy toward abortion, stem cell research, and the right to die have moral dimensions that are open to legitimate debate. Laws often do have a moral dimension, not just a pratctical way to manage society, so bringing in the moral debate is legitimate. But I do not like to see religion brought into these dabates. It's one thing to argue that abortion is morally wrong, but it's another thing to argue that God says abortion is morally wrong and therefor we need laws. I don't think it is right to bring religion into the debate in America.