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Originally Posted by DuffMan
Some of these GOP candidates I don't even know much about.
Dale Christensen
A religious man with highly traditional views on faith, Christensen values religious speech as primary among the guarantees of the First Amendment. While he respects the stated intentions of the Constitution to prohibit religious tests and discrimination in government leaders, and believes in the wall of separation between Church and State, he also feels that reliance on divine inspiration and guidance is crucial for wise administration, invoking Abraham Lincoln and that former president's admissions to trusting in God when he was overmatched by circumstances. He opposes abortion in all but the most exceptional of circumstances. He credits religion with inspiring the American abolition of slavery and the progress of the Civil Rights movement, holding these as examples of the necessity of religious morality in public discourse and policy.
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I do think that this is very true. The problem, however, is that the people who were for slavery, and against civil rights movements, also used their faith as reasons for their opinions (and still do today for things like LGBT rights), which renders it pretty moot as an authority on morality. How people interpret and apply these things, not what is actually written or how others interpret it, is what is important when we're talking about policy guiding an entire nation.