Why This Belief?

You are, of course, right. Admitting to being religious or admitting to not being are not an impediment to election here.However, I think there were some problems for the Reform/Conservatives when it was pointed out that some of their members were fundies.It is an ability to maintain cockamymie ideas like a 6,000 year old earth that is poisonous to a political career in the larger part of the country. (Alberta however, is another story. )