<<There shouldn't be "ANY" Representation of the Christian Right or ANY "Other Religion" in the Senate or any Other branch of U.S. Politics why?
VERY SIMPLE: "Not ALL Americans are Christians". >>

>>So what your saying is only non Christians should have Representation?
hmmmm ...
I guess its a good thing Anti Christian, Atheist, Fascist Homosexuals don't run the country then. <<

Well, obviously I can't speak for Jake and what his opinion is on this any more than I can for anyone else. However, the way that I interpreted what he said was that the Church and the State must remain seperate. There is no place for religion in politics.

However, even if you aren't a Christian yourself you obviously can't stop a Christian (Moslem, etc.) for running for office on a platform of Christian (Moslem) principles.
Atheists and agnostics might oppose this of course, but they certainly can't stop it. Especially not in a democratic country where everyone has the freedom of speech & religion. After all, you can't stop a Marxist-Leninist from running for office either, no matter how this might infuriate some people.

Many countries in Europe have political parties that run solely based on Religious ideology. For example, Germany has the 'Christian Conservative Party'. I also beleive that Isreal (a secular democracy) does as well. I don't know if this is necessarily 'better' or 'worse', but at least Christians know who to vote for, and that their vote will be represented. The Christians that voted for the Republican party are now seeing the Republican party turn their backs on them, despite the fact that the Christian 'Moral majority' were their core supporters.

It seems that at least one Christian has seen fit to abandon the Republican party altogether, and to run as an independant. What if this man were elected to governor of the state based on his platform of 'Christian principles?'

Would this make the state that he represents radically different from the rest of the United States? Would Christians start moving to that state, while 'non-Christians' started moving out? Would creationism become a mandatory course requirement in schools, and homosexuality a criminal offence punishable by law? Would the television broadcasts and newspapers of that state become censored to reflect a 'Christian worldview?'

It would be interesting for me to see this happen. I think it would make the United States a very different place than the place it is today. Would most of the hard-core Christian fundamentalists move to this state, or perhaps other govenors would follow suit? This might even be the beginnings of another attempt at cessation from the Union, (although I'm not sure how this would work). Perhaps another civil war. Perhaps another American revolutionary war.

Maybe other U.S. States would follow, with the 'ultra-left' states and the 'ultra-right' states breaking away from the Union to form their own countries. I understand that California has about the same population as Canada. I have also heard that Texas does not beleive in 'out-of-state' banking.

Or, perhaps we will start seeing more political parties to choose from in the future. Instead of two people running for the office of President, there might be five.

There's the Marxist-Leninist candidate, the Green Party, the Democrats, the Republicans, and the Christian Heritage party on the extreme right.

Isn't this more democratic than the current 'Left or Right, Black or White, one and a half party system?'

Who will you vote for?