Touche’ Mark.

And don’t you love this? It’s not merely relevant, it’s just common sense that we should take a candidate’s religion into account in assessing how he might perform as president, but if we take it into account in assessing how he might perform as an airplane passenger, that would be profiling and grounds to subject entire federal security agencies to cultural sensitivity training.

Personally, I have no problem with people weighing a candidate’s faith or lack thereof. It’s relevant. In most cases, it’s not dispositive, but it’s part of the package. It makes no sense, though, to take a factor that common sense screams is a likely influence on behavior and warn the people trying to keep us alive that they’re not allowed to take notice of it.