The Detroit News. Each side nominally tolerates the other's faith, but not the associated politics. As for the rest of us, we're often ambiguous over whether morality and religion are synonymous.
Many legal prohibitions have religious connections.
Murder, perjury and theft were considered sins long before they were U.S. law. Ashcroft belongs to the Assemblies of God, an evangelical Protestant denomination with 2.5 million members. The attitude reaches back to the bad old days when Protestants pondered whether Catholic John F. Kennedy was free from Vatican control. You win some. You lose some.