[Sean]

While I won't be shocked if it's a true story, it does seem slightly dubious in it's anectodal nature.

That aside, as an atheist, I personally find the fact that religion is so crucial to holding office in the first place pretty disturbing. As far as I'm concerned, religion is a purely man-made institution that began as a means to provide answers to scary questions, like "what is that big, bright, hot thing in the sky that flies overhead every day?" and "what happens when we die?" In the past, those questions were answered through deities like Ra, Thor, and Zeus. Now it's God, or Allah, or whoever else other contemporary religions worship, but the motivation and concept is exactly the same. Personally, I would love to see a national leader who can check all of this at the door (or even not be religious - I can't imagine that actually happening though), and govern based on reason, logic, and the basic needs of our society - because to be perfectly honest, powerful people who believe in and govern by using this kind of mythology at all make me extremely uneasy. That goes equally for Republicans and Democrats.

So all of that is basically meant to make the point that if this story is true, it's honestly no more scary to me than the fact that all of our political leaders finish virtually every speech with statements like "God bless America", and base much of what they do on what their religion tells them is right and wrong. Nothing that any political leader does in their job should be motivated by religious ideology, because it will inherently alienate and ignore the beliefs of a significant portion of the population while at the very least appearing to cater only to like-minded religious folks.