Ross Douthat, who says he would vote for Romney, has further comments on the guy's mormonism, mostly arguing that voters would be in their rights to discriminate against his religion. It sometimes strikes me that Christian voters have set up a sweet deal for themselves politically: any hint of public dismissiveness towards their religious preferences is instant cause for a culture war (who can forget last year's charming counterstrike on Santa's enemies?), but atheists, as Poppa Bush put it, aren't full Americans, and other religions are a bit too weird to countenance. I think Ross is right that it's silly to inveigh against a religious test against mormons, but only because it so vastly understates the degree to which spiritual litmus tests infect our politics.
