"Religious and Secular Voters"

Here is an interesting essay, at TechCentralStation, "Why Religious Voters May Be More Inclusive than Seculars."  Here is a taste:

[P]erhaps democracy is safer in the hands of those who believe both in a higher unity whose values are finally unknowable to us, and in the personal caring and love of that higher unity for us, that values our individual decisions and our freedom. Those who are best accustomed to the pain and tension of religious "doubleness" may be those who are best qualified to handle the two paradoxes of free societies: the contradiction between my valuations and the valuations of the free market's pricing system, and the contradiction between my necessary political opinions and the verdict of the election.

Rick