By BOJEVUS
Added: Thu, 02 Sep 2010 16:25:01 UTC

I am currently the field director for a congressional candidate in Virginia who is an open "non-believer", to use his terminology. He is the first congressional candidate to make a serious attempt to gain office while publicly admitting his atheism.

The degree of reflexive antipathy we receive when this becomes clear is shocking. It doesn't help that the incumbent against whom we're running is the chair of the "Congressional Prayer Caucus."

The district is potentially winnable, and internal polling shows us getting close, but we need to have a good strategy prior to the debates. I was wondering if the group might have any ideas regarding the best manner for us to present our position that our candidate respects, completely, the religious freedom and expression of all of his potential constituents, even though he is an atheist.

Thoughts?

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