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Regarding Senator John McCain's comments that, in his view, Muslims are less spiritually capable than Christians to serve as President (McCain Casts Muslims as Less Fit to Lead, September 30), and that the United States was established as a Christian Nation, I'm not sure what's worse: the notion that the Senator is so desperate to become President that he would pander this much to Religious Conservatives, or the notion that these are his actual beliefs. Perhaps, as part of his "Straight Talk" campaign, he can share with the voters the specific guiding principles he feels a Christian candidate embodies (and a Muslim or non-Christian candidate presumably does not) that makes him or her a preferred choice by default. Or, better still, perhaps he could re-read what the Founding Fathers placed in Article 6 of the Constitution ("No religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust under the United States") and then publicly apologize for his ill-considered comments.
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