Goober,

I don't think that most Canadians, including secularist like myself, have and problems in the political arena with devoted adherents of almost any religious faith.  They do have problems with are politicians that want to impose their own individual religious beliefs on an unwilling public through state intervention.  This distinguishes being "fundamentalist" in most political references to religion from "devoted" and it is with reason a cause for wariness among many voters.

A failure by a Party to appreciate this distinction will limit the breadth of its popular appeal and if elected as Government, its capacity to govern effectively for the longer term.