Religious Test to Hold Office? This Mitt Romney Thing

Have you read the U.S. Constitution? No religious tests for office! But some self-righteous idealogues, holding onto Old American prejudices, feel perfectly at ease with this particular religious bigotry. Evangelists, Baptists should know better! A line from A River Runs Through It jabs: Methodists are Baptists who can read. (If my memory serves me.)

My grandfather taught at a private Methodist university - Emory. He had a doctorate of Divinity and Medicine. He was Moravian. Moravians were a religious brotherhood who, during the Revolutionary War, would not take up arms for religious reasons, but cared for the Continental Army's wounded in Bethlehem, Penn., so well that the Continental Congress issued a Citation at the request of Gen. George Washington praising the Moravians' care of the war wounded.

Taking that position was an unpopular one in that day, being who they were. But the country found it within their heart to honor a religion, different than the mainstream.

Americans would be well-served to find similar tolerance now with former-Mass. Governor Mitt Romney. This bigotry comes from left-wing and right-wing extremists with agendas different than our own - different than the mainstream of America.