Romm: Presidential candidates are evidently obligated to adopt the political views of their religious leaders

GOP Candidates’ Positions on Climate Change Are Not Consistent With Their Religious Leaders | ThinkProgress

Until recently, Bachmann attended the Salem Evangelical Lutheran Church, which belongs to the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod. WELS is conservative, but believes that environmental care and stewardship of the earth is a Christian “responsibility.”

Flashback:  Obama's Pastor: God Damn America, U.S. to Blame for 9/11 - ABC News

Sen. Barack Obama's pastor says blacks should not sing "God Bless America" but "God damn America."

The Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Obama's pastor for the last 20 years at the Trinity United Church of Christ on Chicago's south side, has a long history of what even Obama's campaign aides concede is "inflammatory rhetoric," including the assertion that the United States brought on the 9/11 attacks with its own "terrorism."