2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: The Race Card, the Red Card, the Gender Card! All being played by the Hillary Campaign. [View all]JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)I remember what a big fuss was made over the fact that John F. Kennedy was Catholic. To Protestant Americans, especially Republicans, that was a huge problem.
I think that the statement about Hillary being of the same religion and same church and therefore better liked is exactly the same as saying that a candidate is of the same race or ethnicity as the voter and therefor better liked.
As we saw in 2008 and 2012, the MAJORITY of white people in America do know go to the polls and vote for a person because, after all, that candidate is of my race or ethnicity.
It's an absurd reason to vote for someone.
It is absurd and discriminatory to prefer Hillary over Bernie based on Hillary's religion.
That is religious discrimination.
And if a person does not want to be discriminated against, then that person should not discriminate against others.
If the candidate is anti-abortion partly out of religious reasons, and a voter votes against that candidate because of the abortion stance, that is not voting against the candidate based on that candidate's religion but based on that candidate's stance on abortion.
But voting for Hillary because she is a Methodist o r a Christian and not voting for Bernie because he is Jewish is like not voting for someone based on race or ethnicity. It really should not be a consideration in our country in this day and age.
Horrors!