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[quote=Anonymous][quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous][quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It reminds me of the days when no one would trust a Catholic to be President.[/quote]

there hasn't been one since. we've learned the lesson. [/quote]

Are you opposed to future Catholic presidents?
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unless they are extremely progressive, then yes I would rather not have one ceteris paribus. [/quote]

It sounds like what matters to you are a candidate's positions, not the candidate's religion. Would you choose an evengelical Protestant Christian over a Catholic automatically, or would you need to know about their specific positions?
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Positions matters more, but if candidates are roughly equal in policy views, then definitely I would use it as a tie-breaker. No way, evangelicals would be even further behind unless said evangelical held more progressive beliefs than they hypothetical catholic. I view muslim candidates similar to evangelicals - i.e. they have to be really progressive for me to be 'ok' with them. For example, Keith Ellison is ok in my book even with his religious views - but if he was dlc/third way dem or conservative - hell no.

I guess the best way to describe my views is to think of how elite colleges view SAT scores of various races (Espenshade, 2005). Subsitute religion for race as follows: muslims and evangelicals get -100 pts (i.e. they really have to out perform via their policy views), catholics and jews (-50 points), buddhists/non-practicing hindus and jews (neutral), athiests/agnostics (+100 points).

Just look at the catholics on the bench - 5/6 are not 'ok'.

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