Would you vote for a Roman Catholic?

[TheRealJoeFish]

What I care about is what he DOES.

This.

Using Biden as an example - yep, he's Catholic, but so far, I haven't seen pushing the Catholic pro-life agenda.  Whatever else I may think of his politics, the man knows how to keep his religion separate from his job, and I can respect that.  The current crop of GOP asshats?  Not at all.

And this raises an important distinction that is hidden in the way people commonly use language and talk about religion.

Sometimes when someone says "of course my religion informs my policy!" they mean "my religion informs my morality, and thus my religion tells me to be a good person, so I'll be a good person, and enact the policies that a good person would enact."

Other times, when someone says "of course my religion informs my policy!" they mean "well, obviously satan is working through the arab governments and feminism to destroy israel and heteronormativity, so we should bomb the middle east and outlaw yoga pants."

So, yeah, it's certainly the case that what someone does is a whole lot clearer than what they say...