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[novapsyche]

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Comments

[pstscrpt.livejournal.com]

My instinct would be to say that I wouldn't vote for a Mormon, but then I remember that Bill Clinton is Southern Baptist and Dubya is Methodist (which I grew up as, and is generally fairly mellow). And Nixon was supposedly Quaker.

I wouldn't, however, vote for Mitt Romney.

[novapsyche.livejournal.com]

I would look very closely at a Mormon candidate, I think. But, yeah, I wouldn't vote for Romney, either, not because of his faith, but because of his platform.

[vrax.livejournal.com]

What I found most interesting is that stuffy old America is now more fearful of atheists than of homosexuals. I can't tell; is this progress?

(I used your favorite punctuation for ya there)

[novapsyche.livejournal.com]

Atheists have always been villified in American politics.

As far as homosexuality goes, I recently learned via the History Channel that James Buchanan, known as the "bachelor president," was probably gay.