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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMore Americans Are Comfortable With A Gay Presidential Candidate Than With An Evangelical One
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/05/05/americans-gay-candidate-evangelical-_n_7216448.htmlThe latest WSJ/NBC poll listed a series of qualities in a potential presidential candidate and asked respondents whether they'd "be enthusiastic," "be comfortable with," "have some reservations about" or "be very uncomfortable with" a candidate with each of those qualities.
The results revealed that Americans are actually quite open to having a gay presidential candidate. Sixty-one percent said they would be either enthusiastic about or comfortable with a gay or lesbian candidate, while only 37 percent said they would have reservations or be uncomfortable.
By comparison, respondents were a little less comfortable with the prospect of a candidate who is an evangelical Christian. Fifty-two percent said they'd be enthusiastic about or comfortable with an evangelical Christian running for president, while 44 percent expressed some degree of hesitancy about the idea. (Two percent of respondents said they were not sure about a gay or lesbian candidate, while four percent were not sure about an evangelical.)
Good news for Lindsey Graham!
daleanime
(17,796 posts)workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)to live under his chosen religious sects rules because....god.(my rethug version of god of course you heathens!)
Like the Huckster, Cruz, hell every rethug running, will!
Initech
(100,174 posts)hifiguy
(33,688 posts)nitwits, both of whom are goofier than a left-handed football bat, have any chance of getting to the WH as anything but tourists.
spanone
(136,009 posts)maddiemom
(5,106 posts)For every vocal radical right person in this country, pontificating about any of their extremely conservative views on any controversial issue, there are probably at least two citizens with more sane, liberal views. Unfortunately we hear from only a minority of them in the public forum. In opinion polls and, increasingly, in the voting booth. we see the true story.
closeupready
(29,503 posts)particularly as his closest male acquaintance (William Rufus King, who would be Pres. Franklin Pierce's vice-president) was also a lifelong bachelor.
Aerows
(39,961 posts)more comfortable with just about anything being President than a fundamentalist of ANY religion.
Dealra
(14 posts)For the best.
niyad
(114,178 posts)Rozlee
(2,529 posts)I do agree that there are a lot more enlightened people today. But, an animal in its death throes is very dangerous and the extreme right wing today is in a scorched earth battle mode. There are also many powerful interests trying to keep them alive. They're not going to ride gently into the night.
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merrily
(45,251 posts)A GLBTQ President would, of course. be no problem for me. I think it would also be problem free for many more people if we had strict separation of church and state.
And, if church and state were truly separate, I'd have no problem an evangelical.
Just about the only thing the Constitution (before any amendments) said about God or religion was that there should be no religious test for the Presidency. AFAIK< Kennedy's religion was not a problem and neither was Carter's. Neither was any President's that I know of, until Eisenhower (who added under God to the Pledge of Allegiance--in violation of separation of church and state, I would submit).
As things are, though, I would have a huge problem with an evangelical, unless, again, he or she were like Carter.
Hekate
(91,181 posts)douggg
(239 posts)Get a Ted Haggard and we get evangelical, conservative, gay and drug use as an added bonus.
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