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We have come to a point in the 2008 presidential election cycle where both political parties' candidates are fielding questions about religion. While religion is a personal issue for an overwhelming majority of Americans, religion in government has been frowned upon ever since the ACLU took an active roll in purging it from the "public square." So, it would seem at odds with the dogma of the Secular Progressive Left that religion should be an election issue at all. Yet each candidate has had to answer questions about their faith, with Mike Huckabee and Mitt Romney being literally scrutinized on the issue.

If we are to believe there actually exists a "separation of church and state," a notion that exists nowhere in the Charters of Freedom (The Declaration of Independence, the US Constitution and The Bill of Rights, our Founding Documents) then the issue of religion should be out of bounds when Americans publicly debate the strengths and weaknesses of candidates for elected office. If we are to believe this incorrect interpretation of the Constitution, then religion should be a private matter, exclusive to the individual.

Why then is the issue of the candidates' religions receiving so much attention from the secular mainstream news media? What does it matter if Mitt Romney is a Mormon or that Mike Huckabee is Evangelical?

The logical answer to these questions is that the Secular Progressive Left -- and especially the agenda-driven, "in-the-pocket," secular mainstream media -- is trying to scare the American people into believing that if a man of faith is elected to office he will defer to the tenets of his religion over his constitutionally mandated duty to administer and follow the laws of the land. They are trying to frighten the American people into adhering to the politically correct secular ideology of purging all religion from the "public square."

The fact of the matter is this. In survey after survey it is proven that the overwhelming majority of American people adhere to the tenets of a chosen religion. A 2001 American Religious Identification Survey indicated that approximately 80% of the American people adhere to the tenets of Christianity. And the CIA World Factbook breaks the US religious demographic down as being 78% Christian, while 12% of the population embrace other religions. 10%, it reports, practice no religion.

When you take these facts into consideration, it would be an unlikely event that our electorate would choose someone for the highest office in the land that didn't adhere to a specific religion's ideology.

So, again, we have to ask, why is the issue of the candidate's religion receiving so much attention from the secular mainstream news media?

Again, we have to lean on the obvious notion that the Secular Progressive Left -- and especially their toady mainstream media -- is trying to scare the American electorate into rejecting candidates that they deem "too mired in faith." It would appear that they would prefer the American people choose someone who maintains the status quo; a candidate who gives disingenuous lip-service to faith while glad-handing for votes.

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