Reply #16: I would only vote for a Mormon if they were reasonably heterodox.

[Donald Ian Rankin]

And the same is true of most other religions - including but not limited to conservative or reform Judaism, Catholicism, Orthodoxy, most branches of protestantism and most branches of Islam.

I have no problem whatsoever supporting someone like John Kerry, who calls himself a Catholic but doesn't actually follow the teachings of the Catholic church on issues like gay rights and abortion.

I don't give a damn what religion the candidates I'm offered to choose between claim to be, but I won't vote for someone whose moral principles don't match mine, and those espoused by the orthodox versions of most religions don't.