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If Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan defeat President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden in November, it will be the first time Americans elect a presidential ticket that does not include a Protestant. Romney is a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and Ryan is a life-long Catholic. On the Democratic side, Vice President Joe Biden is also a Catholic, making Obama the only Protestant of the four candidates. The decision not to include a member of a major Protestant denomination suggests that national attitudes about the role of faith in politics have evolved in recent decades. Former President John F. Kennedy's rise to the White House in 1961 sparked anti-Catholic outrage at the time, and he chose Lyndon Johnson as his running mate, a member of the Disciples of Christ. "I don't think it would be particularly important in this election," Thomas S. Kidd, a senior fellow at Baylor University's Institute for Studies of Religion, told the Daily Caller's Matt K....