If you’ll recall, the religions that the ‘tests’ were mainly meant to bar from public office, were Jews and Catholics.
Do you think states should be permitted to have policies like that now, or have we wisely gone beyond that?
What states did back in the early days of the Republic might have been wrong headed, but they had the legal authority to do it.
Do you think states should be permitted to have policies like that now, or have we wisely gone beyond that?
I think that States should have changed their laws as a result of the changes in society, not have a new paradigm imposed upon them by Judicial diktat.
This is the difference between consent and force.
On the question of banning religions nowadays, my current thinking is that we can't allow Islam to exist in our society because it's tenets are incompatible with our values and our society. I do not see any other religion as comprising the same degree of threat to our civilization as does Islam. (Other than Kali worship)