The Pew Research Center released these survey results yesterday, showing that a growing group of people would prefer politicians hold their religious beliefs to themselves. Personally, I like to hear what politicians have to say about their faith. If it's important to you, I don't know how you keep quiet about it. Most of the really big decisions a high-level elected official needs to make are, fundamentally, moral questions. I like to know a little about how an elected official will approach such questions.
The survey reveals several interesting facts, the most fascinating of which is that Catholics, who make up 18 percent of the electorate, are evenly divided on their preference for president: 45 percent support McCain and 44 percent favor Obama. It is amazing to me that a religion as defined as Catholicism could be made up of people who are as likely to favor one candidate as another, even when the two candidates hold completely opposite views on virtually every issue you could imagine.
I think you can chalk that up to free will.
Posted by: Jackie Hilgert | August 22, 2008 at 05:02 PM