About the Catholic thing--most of the people that do link the church to their vote for state officials are the Christian Coalition, who seem to think that Catholics are related to Satan or something to that effect.
Organized religion can very well be poisonous, since it shows more submission to earthly figures rather than a higher power (which is exactly their complaint about Catholicism, ironically).
Another interesting point: there has never been a Baptist Republican President. That is something that people at my church don't believe when I tell them. They tend to think that if you are Baptist, you are a Republican.
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