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[grysar]

Interesting. Not quite the ordering I would have guessed.

From USA today via Sullivan.

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[schneeble.livejournal.com]

Really? I wasn't surprised by the order of the results. I mean, the first 5 items in the list are pretty easy for your average Judeo-Christian American to swallow, and then the farther down the list you go the more that said average Judeo-Christian is going to react with distaste or uncertainty.

The only exception there would be the 72-year old, but that is arguably the one descriptive phrase in the whole list that might actually have bearing on a candidate's qualifications (susceptibility to illness/death).

In any case, I've been led to believe (though I don't have the links to back it up) that somewhere in the ballpark of 4 out of 5 Americans consider religion--predominantly Judeo-Christian religion--important in their lives. That half (or fewer) of those people believe that atheism, homosexuality, and marital complications reflect poorly on an individual's ability to lead in a way consistent with their own beliefs is not surprising... unless maybe you'd expect it to be even lower.

[insheepsclothng.livejournal.com]

Could also do with the social acceptability of predjudice. I would guess a lot more polled people are more racist or antisemitic than they admitted here.