Posted on 09/15/2005 9:49:14 PM PDT by Coleus
As a Catholic, but more importantly, as an American, I found it deeply offensive that members of the United States Senate would try to enact a religious test for public office. Who do they think that they are? Englishman?
Article VI, Clause 3:
The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and the Members of the several State Legislatures, and all executive and judicial Officers, both of the United States and of the several States, shall be bound by Oath or Affirmation, to support this Constitution; but no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States.
'Nuff said.
What were the answers?
oops, SpectEr. So much for previewing!
Our Government officials unconstitutional? Nah, I don't belive it.
I wonder how Sens. Spector and Feinstein would react to being questioned whether they would put the interests of the United States over those of Israel. I can imagine their howels about anti-semitism.
We cannot have any Catholic holding any public office. The Pope is who the Catholics pledge homage too, not the USA. This Nation is being overrun by Catholics. We need to stop all immigration of these Catholics, they will ruin the nation. Catholics are bad.
[I]We cannot have any Catholic holding any public office. The Pope is who the Catholics pledge homage too, not the USA. This Nation is being overrun by Catholics. We need to stop all immigration of these Catholics, they will ruin the nation. Catholics are bad.[/I]
Yes - 2% of their priests are giving 100% of boy preying pedophiles a bad name!
Arlen Sphincter is an embarrassment to the Republican Party. :/
I thought you said the Amish were bad on that other thread. So who is worse? Catholics or the Quilt making Amish?
Yes, let's judge the whole population of Catholics by that two percent!
Ha! Read the tagline!
Tough Question. The Answer is that anyone who is Catholic is bad. or orthodox Jewish. or observant Protestant. Religion is bad bad bad.
Diane Feinstein displays her superb legal understanding. These gun-grabbing, whining, lying, mental patients are always coming around so concerned about their rights, but they don't give a damn about the basic rights plainly enumerated in the constitution. Since the fall of the Soviet Union the domestic Communists have been coming out of the woodwork.
This would be my response:
Yes I do, Senator Feinstein. I promise not to let JFK's religious faith influence my interpretation of the Constitution.
Why yes, actually, I think it is in this nation's best interest to institute Canon Law in place of the Constitution. And so what is my religion will be your religion soon enough. But only as it is in the best interest of the nation. Does that answer your question?
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