fred4prez, I don't believe any member of FR follows your thought out to its conclusion. Every single one of us is going to draw the line regarding that point at which we will cease to celebrate a candidate's religious beliefs and would instead refuse to vote for the candidate solely because the candidate was sincere and consistent in those beliefs.
It's called the Parade of Horribles.
How would you feel about a candidate who sincerely and consistently believed in the whites-only Creativity Movement (World Church of the Creator), or practiced magic as an earnest follower of Thee Temple ov Psychick Youth, or was a follower and a professor in The Grey School of Wizardry of the Robert-A.-Heinlein’s-science-fiction-worshipping Church of All Worlds, or simply believed in and held a billion-year contract as a SeaOrg member of the Church of Scientology?
You may say “that’s ridiculous; those aren't normal religions with normal religious views.” But the point is that the whole question is based on a continuum. At one end of the continuum there are personally held spiritual beliefs about which every voter is going to say “really? You believe that . . . (edging away from the candidate a little) . . . I didn’t know.” It's just a matter of where each voter draws the line.
The idea of celebrating someone who is sincere and consistent in his beliefs is warm. And it's fuzzy. I'm not voting for a sincere and consistent professor in The Grey School of Wizardry. As you asked with respect to something else, yes, I would have a problem with The Grey School of Wizardy, sincere and consistent and all.
All of use are going to have a problem with certain religious believes, no matter how sincere and consistent they are.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/2830889/posts?page=4#4
Freddy here is trolling.
“I can’t see for the life of me why Mitt is such a bad option. “
“He understands the economy, has served as a savy business executive for years, and has some good ideas about how to decrease unemployment.” -yeah, the way he did with BAIN.
“He understands the economy, has served as a savy business executive for years, and has some good ideas about how to decrease unemployment.” -except for that whole pro-homosexual, pro-abortion, pro-gun bans thin, flip flops, outright lies, etc etc.
“On healthcare, he did what he thought should be done at state level in MA, and has said repeatedly that the federal government should leave those decisions on the state level; he has specifically said he would repeal Obamacare.” -he is for individual mandates, why would he repeal something he is for?
“but I can’t see why Romney is such a horrible option” -of course not.
“so definitely not a so-called Romneybot here, lol.” Really?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2830871/posts?page=17#17
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2830866/posts?page=28#28
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/2825850/posts?page=3#3
And, he likes trolling like Soothesayer9 did:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2689722/posts?page=10#10
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2689722/posts?page=35#35
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/2769199/posts?page=26#26
He’s a real piece of work our freddy here.