The most honest answer in last night’s debate

Near the tail end of last night’s interruption-filled vice presidential debate between Democrat Tim Kaine and Republican Mike Pence, moderator Elaine Quijano finally waded into a topic that has received relatively little attention this election season: religion.

After noting that both men have been vocal about their deeply-held faith on the campaign trail, she asked each “to discuss, in detail, a time when you struggled to balance your personal faith and a public policy decision.”

The response to the “religion question” was one of the most honest, compelling moments of the debate, with both men affirming each other’s faith and — for once — refraining from interrupting each other. Yet their answers betrayed two very different sets of spiritual priorities, with each man appearing to use their time to court a different subset of the faithful....
https://thinkprogress.org/what-the-vice-presidential-candidates-meant-when-they-talked-about-faith-last-night-88dec3a54f97#.jn7leppaw