Kyrsten Sinema broke a slew of barriers with her Senate win. So how was identity a nonissue in her race?

Washington Post reporter Eugene Scott writes about the barriers Arizona Senator Kyrsten Sinema broke after her election to the United State Senate.

Nick Fish, president of American Atheists, a nonprofit focused on maintaining the separation of church and state, told The Fix that issues that were once viewed as dealbreakers for some candidates appear to no longer be major issues.

“The fact that candidates' sexual orientation and religious beliefs — or lack thereof — are becoming less weaponized is certainly a step in the right direction. Candidates should run on the issues and show their constituents exactly how they’ll represent them. But we shouldn’t pretend that a candidate’s religion is a nonissue,” he said. “If more politicians, even religious candidates, embraced that secular approach to governance, we’d be in a far better place. It’s been my experience that our community votes on the issues, not on the labels, and that’s how it should be."