Cory Booker: “I Would Rather Hang Out With a Nice Atheist Than a Mean Christian”

By Hemant Mehta During a CNN Town Hall tonight, Democratic presidential candidate (and New Jersey senator) Cory Booker was asked how faith would influence him if he were in the White House. That’s always a dangerous question, certainly among progressives. I don’t want faith influencing his policies, but obviously religious beliefs are going to influence their outlook. When similar …