However, reasons why an INDIVIDUAL will vote, or not, for a candidate are his own business. I won't vote for example for someone--if their office has any impact on the subject--who is not pro-life. Is this a kind of "religious test" on my part? Of course it is.
Is my choice a "religious test" as meant by the Constitution or the Founders? No, of course not--they meant something written into law that says a candidate must be say, Episcopalian, to run for office--THAT is a religious test. If I made a choice, my personal choice, only to vote for Episcopalians though (foolish as that may be--and likely always contradicting my pro-life choice) that does not constitute a "religious test" as meant by the Founders.
So, please don't accuse those of the many of us who won't vote for atheists as somehow being unconstitutional in demanding a religious test....that's just rubbish.
We have an inalienable constitutional right to vote for whomever we wish for whatever reasons we wish--even (or especially) if those reasons are religious.
Here's the rub, though. You can 'hear' whatever you want about a candidates religious affiliation. When it comes down to brass tacks, it doesn't mean crap. What boggles my mind right now is that so many people here would and do blindly follow some fool just because they say they believe in God or Jesus. These are the same idiots (the politicians this time) that don't get one foot out of the church door without saying something immoral. You know people like that, so do I. Why do you base someone's life on a spoken sentence?