Should religion determine who can vote?
830291
neither proposition is acceptable...what are you thinking?
836338
Because it depends on religion.
190418
people of all religions, races etc vote and decide in america. The usa is NOT rulled by "zionists"
511654
No, but the Republican party is sure touting that there is a war on Christianity to polarize certain groups because that will get them put into office.  There are also groups that think the US should be a theocracy but that is blatantly unconstitutional.  Sorry, it's a democracy where all of us have the same rights.
963929
This is a very good point, and i have actually researched it before.  In the Freedom of Religion amendment, there are two clauses: the establishment clause, and the free excercise clause.  The establishment clause is the separation of church and state, or in other words, the government cannot establish or promote any one relgion.  In the free excercise clause, the government cannot ban any one religion.  Oddly enough, atheism is only considered a religion in the free excercise clause, and not in the establishment clause.  This is a sort of loophole that allows the religion to establish atheism in schools, without going against our rights to freedom of religion.  Pretty messed up, huh?
922331
Aside from the cases where they are discouraged from registering, let alone voting (and the ID card, voter purges, transporation problems, confusing poll locations don't make it any easier) -- few candidates appeal to them. Those who do, win.\n\nThen there are the close-knit groups who do vote, and all vote identically. The Lubavichers, for example, vote whichever way their Rebbe tells them. I'm sure there are others like that: there's been plenty of press discussion about evangelicals and Mormons, to name two.
416942
religion and government
654669
Absolutely not. \n\nLet me put it this way. Who's religious belief is right? \n\nIf you can answer that question, then we can have prayer in schools. If not, then you can begin to figure out why there is no prayer in school. \n\nSee, if the state begins to determine what prayers can be prayed in public school, then the state makes an endorsement of a particular religion. From there, the state gets more involved in the politics of religion. \n\nNow, the last thing you want is the government telling you how you should or shouldn't pray, right? \n\nLet me go a step further. Let's say we go with the fact that 90% of Americans believe in God. So, you say "Hey, we can just pray to a generic god. Then nobody's discriminated against." (Except the 10%, of course.)\n\nExcept, praying to a generic god is a sin. You pray to the one true god, otherwise, you're really ticking god off. Besides, Christians are pretty fond of Jesus and would get really ticked at keeping him out of prayers, don't you think?\n\nSo, we have to make a choice. Who's religion is the right one? Well, Christians outnumber everybody else by a wide margin in the US, guess we'll make Christiantiy the de facto religion of the US. (85% of believers are Christians of some form or another in the US. So we take 85% of the 90%)\n\nExcept, which version of Christianity is the right one? Do we have Catholic mass? Do we have have Baptismal hymnals? What about those who refuse to engage in the prayer? Will there be repercussions? (You bet there will be by those who do pray versus those who don't.)\n\nOK. You might say I'm complicating the problem, but I'm not. Essentially, we have a separation of church and state to avoid internal conflict in the country over who's religious belief is the correct one. We also, don't want a government telling us who to worship and how to worship. (Living in a religion dominated society is called, theocracy. See the Middle East for what our lives would be like if we had a church dominated government.)\n\nKeeping prayer out of schools and government allows us to live in a country where we have religious freedom. The freedom to worship as we choose of our own free will.\n\nIn other words nobody is penalized for not being of the "correct" faith. Everybody has the freedom to worship without government oversight and being bullied by social pressures. Nobody is at risk of the majority telling them how to live. \n\nAmerica is about freedom. Freedom from government endorsed religion is a good thing.\n\nHope that makes sense.
378583
While I think it's fine to have religious beliefs, I think that religion and democracy are antithetical. \n\nIf democracy entails "majority rule," then religion merely segregates people into "us" vs. "them" categories. \n\nReligion has no place in democracy.
394121
I don't think it is just poor people. I believe people let religion choose their political affiliation because religion goes to the deep areas of what people believe about right and wrong. And in many cases people fear they won't be able to go to heaven if they don't agree with their church. Unfortunately even though a particular political group may be overall bad for people economically they are more likely to agree with that group if they feel the group meets their moral needs and beliefs.
877003
Since there are civil benefits to marriage, morally, it must be open to all.\n\nno one has a monopoly on marriage - certainly no one religion - although religious institutions do have the right to set their own internal rules, they should not be in a position to forbid others to do so.
984960
Depends what exactly you mean by separation of church and state.  The First Amendment is desgined to keep the government out of the religion business; there is no prohibition on people of religious faith participating in politics.
827422
Don't ask us to decide for you. Vote based on your own beliefs. What works for me might not work for you.
1076858
I agree with you.  I consider myself a Christian, and I say this with as much respect as possible: it doesn't really matter what God's opinion is on the subject because the Constitution guarantees everyone's right to religious freedom.  That includes Jews, Muslims, Baptists, Atheists, and yes, GAY PEOPLE.  I live my life according to God's law, but that does not give me the right to tell someone else how to live.
984075
It is best to choose someone with the same religious background as yourself. You need to have it in common.
785350
some religions may not accept such beliefs.
993923
Yes we should.  Liberal republicans and conservative democrats are almost the same thing, yet they vote for candidates that are far left or far right just because of party affiliation.  It's also ashame that third party candidates have no hope of winning when they have some of the best ideas.  The idea that your vote is wasted when you vote for the person you like best is terrible.  Every vote should count and we need to steer away from our current system.  Which incidentally put a theocracy into effect.  How can we attempt to bring democracy into other nations when our own leader claims to be led by god.