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Does Your Candidate Love Jesus?
An atheist presidential hopeful might not have a prayer
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None of this is to say that religious people aren’t capable of respecting our rights. There are of course countless devout believers who are also eloquent defenders of liberty.
But to say that a man without religion can’t be trusted to respect our rights is nonsense. Especially when religious faith has motivated so many of our prior political leaders to erode them. Not least the man who currently occupies the White House.
Radley Balko is a senior editor at reason.
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