2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Clinton’s Claims on Auto Industry ‘Not True’....Bernie speaks out. [View all]JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)that the woman who asked the questions about religion attended? Did Hillary recognize or know that woman?
The Constitution specifically bars applying a religious test for any office in our government. Why are questions about faith and religion asked in debates?
I was raised a Methodist, but my last name looks Jewish. It isn't. It is German. I came by it through a complicated set of events. It is the name of a German river.
I applied for a job, and at the end of the interview, the interviewer said to me, "Everybody in this company goes to church." I smiled and said, "That's very nice."
Not being Jewish or some other non-Christian religion, it took years for me to suddenly for no reason realize that the remark about how everybody in that company went to church, was supposed to be a way to find out what religion I was.
These questions about religion and the religious discrimination that they suggest, the discrimination implications that they encourage, should not be asked at debates.
I just wanted to bring this to your attention because you seem to know a lot about news matters and politics.