What part of "individual freedom" don't you understand? In America you are supposed to be free to call God anything you want, including not at all. So whether you call your Almighty Jehovah, or YHWH, Jesus, Allah or BFTSPLXK, you are free to worship as you see fit.
Whovever leads this country should be a person of integrity. Our laws should be formulated from universally agreed principles of behavior intended to keep individuals and groups from victimizing each other. The leader of this country may choose to adhere to a religion or not. What is important is the dedication to integrity and the principles of individual liberty carried down to the lowest citizen. This may mean curtailing the oppressive power of corporations, religions or mobs, purposeful or accidental majorities or pluralities that create an illusion of a power bloc. If we give way to a mob of the so-called "good," we are required by the same principle to give way to a mob of the so-called "bad" when they muster enough votes. That's not how it is supposed to be.
We all tend to vote for people we think will give us what we want. Maybe that just sets us up for the eventual tyranny of the majority, a dictatorship of the proselytariat.
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