Colson believes it is appropriate, and advisable, to ask a candidate to explain how their religious views shape their policy views. “That’s a really good question and that’s a fair question, and that’s not a religious test,” he noted.

Evangelical bestselling author and speaker Chuck Colson said, in a Tuesday interview with The Christian Post, that Christians should not refrain from voting for someone because they are not a Christian, and recent public debates on the issue have harmed Christians’ witness to non-Christians.

As long as a candidate holds the same values, their religion is not important when it comes to serving in office, according to Colson.

Article VI of the United States Constitutions states, “No religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust under the United States.” Colson believes that Christians should apply the value imbedded in that phrase – that in a free society a person’s religious faith should not preclude them from serving in public office – when they enter the voting booth.

“You’ve got to weigh these things very carefully and you shouldn’t say I’m not going to vote for this person because he’s a Mormon, he’s a Catholic, he’s a Jew,” Colson said.

Colson was responding to a recent controversy in which Dallas megachurch pastor Robert Jeffers said: “evangelical Christians should not vote for [former Massachusetts Governor] Mitt Romney because he’s a Mormon, therefore not a real Christian.”

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