Now it's difficult to determine what if any role religion plays in politics.—Ken Briggs.

Really.  Religion through the Way of the Crucified Christ teaches it is truth that ought to determine politics, rather than politics.  Fact-checkers have a clear preference between Hillary and The Donald.

How could people who are ostensibly the bearers of strait-laced morality vote for a wheeler-dealer who seems to have his way with women, denigrates non-whites and cheats sub-contractors out of their agreed-upon compensation, among other things?—Ken Briggs.

How that happens is by letting church politics (Roe v Wade) override the truth that with The Donald at the helm, the nuclear holocaust would be in the hands of a mercurial narcissist, potentially destroying the born and the unborn, both.