Left of liberal John? LOL

FWIW, I'd be more interested to find whether the US would elect someone who was non-Christian. By that I don't necessarily mean Muslim, Sikh or whatever, but more simply just someone who doesn't go to church. As an outsider, this seems to me to be a much bigger political division.

Graham.
   
   Astute observation Graham and unfortunately the answer is no, even though many of our founding fathers were deists, rosecrutians and free thinkers. The virginians were mostly official Anglicans but only because in pre-revolutionary Virginia it was the law. I had a distant ancestor, a Quaker, who was fined a pound sterling for not attending the Church of England. He was indicted by his own brother. But never-the-less our founders seem to have understood the importance of separation of church and state better than we do. I was only yesterday complaining to my local PUBLIC library about a prominent display of Christian fiction. I told them that as a public institution receiving government money it was inappropriate and probably illegal to promote a specific religion at the expense of all others. They just seemed confused.

    Shel Silverstein was indeed a prolific and unique songwriter. He wrote "A Boy Named Sue" for Johnny Cash, "One's On the Way" for Loretta Lynn, "The Unicorn" for the Irish Rovers and nearly the entire repertoire for Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show: "Cover of the Rolling Stone", "Sylvia's Mother" etc.