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Ted Cruz Is Suddenly in Favor of Separation of Church and State?

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Nyet9/20/2015 10:27:03 pm PDT

re: #25 palomino

But your refusal to vote for them isn’t based on their religion per se. It’s based on their theocratic, far right wing policies.

Which are a part and parcel of their religion.
There is nothing intrinsically wrong with refusing to vote for someone because of their religion. It only becomes wrong when this decision is also irrational, like in the case of “I won’t vote for any Muslim”. (In this case irrationality lies in several fallacies, like overgeneralization.) When the decision is rational (“I won’t vote for any fundamentalist Christian” or “a member of the Church of Scientology” or “a member of Aum Shinrikyo), it is warranted and is, arguably, even necessary.

(And no, not all evangelicals are fundamentalists.)