(FREE PRESS INDIANA) — Indiana state Rep. Joanna King grew up in an Amish family that believed voting went against their faith-based conviction that members should stay separate from the world.
“They really feel like their influence needs to be praying for the people that are elected … but still really having that complete separation of church and state,” said King, whose family left the Amish faith when she was in third grade.
But that long-standing belief is fading among some Indiana Amish — and it could open up an untapped block of conservative voters…