5 faith facts about Bernie Sanders: Unabashedly irreligious

(RNS) — Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders — a political independent, a socialist and possibly the most liberal member of Congress — may be a cultural Jew, but he's campaigned on the idea that people of faith and those with strong moral values can stand together. He even took his pitch — that the separation of church and state honors diversity and respects autonomy — to conservative evangelicals at Jerry-Falwell-founded Liberty University.

(RNS) — Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders — a political independent, a socialist and possibly the most liberal member of Congress — may be a cultural Jew, but he's campaigned on the idea that people of faith and those with strong moral values can stand together. He even took his pitch — that the separation of church and state honors diversity and respects autonomy — to conservative evangelicals at Jerry-Falwell-founded Liberty University.…