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The prospective Senator may wish to read the Constitution that creates that office, if she's so interested in the job. There she would find, in Article VI, Section III, this prohibition:
"...no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States."
There's far too much nonsense in her statements -- those of them that come closer to forming coherent thoughts, anyway -- to bother addressing them. (I will just note that those other, poor pitiful non-Christian nations "who don't know better" and who we will lead astray already have reproductive rights and protections, many have gay marriage or civil unions, and almost all have a far greater social safety net to take care of the "least among us," as Jesus might say.)
But I think it does bear noting that she is running for an office whose qualifications for holding, as stated in the founding document of the country, she seems blissfully unaware of.
