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Bush didn't do it, and maybe McCain won't either, but they certainly talk about removing a woman's choice re abortion. That would be imposing religion on the rest of us. The fact that gays are not allowed to marry in most of the U.S. (and people are fighting to take it away where it IS legal) is a matter of removing choice from people and imposing religion. Even the fact that it seems clear that the religious right would shout down any candidate that didn't kneel and make Christian noises removes choice for the rest of us.
Yes, secular values are imposed on society when, say, gay marriage is allowed instead of forbidden. But you are not forced to marry someone of the same sex - it's just that people have that choice. Under Christian values, that choice is removed.
So who's poking whose nose into whose business?
