Ms. Clinton, do you believe in the resurrection of Jesus Christ?

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Media like to ask Republicans about their views on abortion, or if they would attend a gay wedding, or would they have invaded Iraq if they knew what we now (supposedly) know, or if they believe in evolution, and so on, and on. Somehow, we are supposed to ignore that we are a secularly governed society, with specific limits on government's power and with strictly construed duties of politicians which constrain what they can and cannot do regarding various gotcha questions. We are supposed to ignore our brilliantly devised system of protections against evils from those who have different opinions than we do. And we are then to assume that if they do have contrary views on such gotcha matters that they will reek havoc on our personal lives if they get elected.

If that assumption is valid, then why not ask Hillary Clinton if she truly believes that Jesus Christ died for our sins, rose from the dead, and will return again in the future to activate the Christian Rapture? If her belief on those matters is as relevant as various Republican's beliefs on gotcha questions are supposed to be, then there should be very meaningful consequences to her election based on her answers.

If she says yes, will that strike terror in the hearts of atheists, or Jews, or Muslims, or Buddhists, or socialists/Marxists/communists, or gays, or Canadians? Will she have a lock on the Evangelical vote, on the various Christian sects vote?

Will she even be believed if she says yes? Will the non-Christian list of voters wink and nod, understanding she only responded with expedient political deception? And not to worry--we know by her views on abortion and gays and other stuff that she's really not Christian in any meaningful way.

The fact that there are all these different and contradictory factions in the makeup of our society doesn't seem to phase the media's need to ask such pointed personal questions, at least of Republican's. And that the media, and apparently the unwashed masses, ignore the constitutional impotence of politicians to intrude in our personal lives and beliefs, implies that those political protections no longer exist. In spite of the reason that no power for such intrusion was devised specifically BECAUSE our society is diverse and we must be protected from each others opposing opinions.

And that is the underlying truth of the matter. The media understands, and is complicit in, the transformation of our governmental system. We are, indeed, to fear our regulators, our political ruling class, if our personal beliefs do not align with the prevailing correctness. The Media views through the current political prism which sees government no longer being limited in asserting itself into our personal lives. The Media, in great part, is the Orwellian newspeak, the government controlled language and influenced reportage, which, on the one hand touts our diversity with all its necessary trappings of glorifying and protecting massive immigration of "diverse" populations, but on the other hand squashes the practice of opinions that differ from its agenda.

So, there is no need of the mainstream media to ask gotcha questions of politicians with whom it agrees and promotes. And it, therefor, does have a motivation to ask those questions of candidates who might upset the Media's prevailing progressive mind and the totalitarian mode of the progressive government it supports.