This is shocking, but in no way surprising to me. An article on cnn.com about the chances of the Democrats taking Ohio in the mid-term elections quotes a 77 year old Republican voter expressing concern about Iraq -
“I was all for Bush going in there because I thought he had prayed about it.”
Am I reading this right – she chose not to have an informed opinion of her own because she believed that President Bush was getting his opinion from God?
This is sad and disturbing, but completely consistent with a very strong strain of Christianity (not just in the US) that encourages people to park their brains and defer to the judgement of so-called leaders.