From New York Times Executive Editor Bill Keller’s Sunday column proposing that presidential candidates (mainly Republicans, it seems) be asked tougher questions about their religious faith:

Correction: August 25, 2011An earlier version of this article indicated that Rick Santorum is an evangelical; he is Catholic.

Needless to say, Keller’s column has many other elements that could be considered, um, questionable…

David Gibson is director of the Center on Religion and Culture at Fordham University and an occasional contributor to Commonweal.

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