is Rick Santorum more or less objectionable because he is a Roman Catholic?

[Indy Texas]

More. He's attached to a Church that has done some pretty sinister things throughout history. But Evangelical Protestantism has more or less simply provided provocation and occasional comic relief when brought down by its own hypocrisy and excess (Ted Haggard, Jim and Tammy Fay Baker, Eddie Long...).

[Indy Texas]

This thread would not be acceptable if it was about Islam or Judaism, and it should not be acceptable for Catholicism, Protestantism, or any religion.

Sure it would be. Santorum is not a run of the mill religious congregant. I don't think it's intolerant to say a fundamentalist Catholic's views are very much at odds with mainstream America's and I would not vote for one. In the same way, a fundamentalist Muslim or an ultra-Orthodox Jew holds values that are also very much at odds with mainstream America's. I wouldn't vote for someone with those views either.