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Stormy, I agree with just about everything you wrote, but I think that we look at it from a different perspective. When the majority voted for Bush, and a strong percentage of those numbers were the "moral majority," Bush being president is expressing the will of the people, and this being a government of the will of the people ... It makes sense to involve morality.
The separation of Church and State doesn't apply to a President's morality, because we all get our morality from somewhere. It would be equally as unjust to not recognize morally derived from a religious perspective, because, boiled down to it, it all just becomes people sharing ideas, and not much else.
While I am a very strong Christian, I am pro-choice (from a politician's perspective; wholely against abortion morally), against Gay Marriage (from a politician's perspective, not from the perspective of my morality), and I don't go to Church much at all. My votes for Bush came from Republican tax ideology, national security, some other things that would take too long to explain, and my stark opposition to John Kerry, as I've lived under him for my entire politically-relevent life and would distrust him with the reigns of the United States.
Mike
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