A Good Year for the Outlaw

I was up in Iowa Saturday, and grabbed a newspaper to read between events at my kid’s district track meet. Track meets are like drag racing events….you get a race, then seven minutes of nothing…then a race…then a delay to put hurdles on the track, 12 more minutes pass…then a race…but I digress.

My ire was raised as I read an article about politics and religion, to wit:

In 2008, Steve Scheffler, president of the Iowa Christian Alliance, compares concerns about Romney’s faith with past worries about President John Kennedy. When Kennedy first ran for president, there were fears his Catholic faith would influence his policy decisions, Scheffler said. “The fears of him imposing his faith on the country were unfounded. I don’t think most people believe there should be a religious test to become the president.”

Okay, not bad. I agree with this guy at this point…there shouldn’t be a religious “test” involved with becoming president. But then…the very next line of the very same article is this:

Scheffler said his group would be concerned if a candidate was an agnostic or an atheist…

Wha? Huh?  Oh, I see. So there doesn’t need to be “a test” so long as the candidate is a christian. How open minded of Mr. Scheffler.