Politics and Religion

Isn't there a saying that is something like "Never  talk about Politics or Religion when in Social Gatherings" or something like that? well, I have found that most people talk only of that. 
 These two are the most highly debated topics to mankind. Well, in the USA there is now elections time. People are debating whether or not a "Mormon" can be a President in the USA. South Carolina, You ought to be ashamed. 
 I thought that South Carolina has gotten over their archaic ideas and were not prejudiced but, they have proven to me once again that they are in the South and people there are very much prejudiced. 
To show that  Presidents CAN be apart of religion, here is a list of US Presidents and their religion, or if they are not religious, it is indicated.
My point to all of this is simple. What you believe in God or if you do not believe in God, it will not effect your abilities as President. I am tired of hearing how it does. 
  I am also tired of hearing how the "Mormon Candidate" Mitt Romney will not be a good president because of him being Mormon. C'mon, people, is that the best you can come up with? Really? 
Since when did anyone of the Presidents go to church and the nation criticized them for that? I am really shocked that our nation has been taken back a few steps on the topic. We should be more progressive. We should be moving forward. we are an example to other nations on how to treat others and how elections should run. Shame on all of you for making the campaign dirty. 
 I expected that 175 years ago when Joseph Smith ran for president, but not 2012 when Mitt Romney is running.


No denominational affiliation
    Thomas Jefferson
    Abraham Lincoln
    Andrew Johnson
    Ulysses Grant
    Rutherford Hayes

Baptist
    Warren Harding
    Harry Truman
    Jimmy Carter (Southern Baptist)
    Bill Clinton (Southern Baptist)

Congregationalist
    Calvin Coolidge
    John Adams (later Unitarian)

Disciples of Christ
    James Garfield
    Lyndon Johnson
    Ronald Reagan (also Presbyterian)

Dutch Reformed
    Martin Van Buren
    Theodore Roosevelt

Episcopalian
    George Washington
    James Madison
    James Monroe
    William Henry Harrison
    John Tyler
    Zachary Taylor
    Franklin Pierce
    Chester A. Arthur
    Franklin D. Roosevelt
    Gerald Ford
    George H. W. Bush
    George W. Bush (later Methodist)

Methodist
    James Polk (originally Presbyterian)
    Ulysses Grant (allegedly; his theology is unknown)
    William McKinley
    George W. Bush (originally Episcopalian)

Presbyterian
    Andrew Jackson
    James Polk (later Methodist)
    James Buchanan
    Grover Cleveland
    Benjamin Harrison
    Woodrow Wilson
    Dwight D. Eisenhower
    Ronald Reagan (also Disciples of Christ)

Quaker
    Herbert Hoover
    Richard Nixon

Roman Catholic
    John F. Kennedy

Unitarian
    John Adams
    John Quincy Adams
    Millard Fillmore
    William Howard Taft

United Church of Christ
    Barack Obama (later no affiliation)

Note that the 1957 merger which formed the U.C.C. included the Congregational Christian Churches.