[Freedom_no_exceptions]

Really? When did they begin having free elections with universal sufferage?! I must have missed that one...

Actually, Saudi Arabia started having local elections recently (male-only, of course) for low-level positions - from which atheists are as excluded as they are from ALL public life over there. I didn't mean to compare their Islamic theocracy to our constitutional republic, but having a belief in the supernatural as a primary condition for elected office is not a step in the right direction.

[Axenolith]

Yes, and the recipient of your prior post made no mention of it either, just that that was the way they voted, not how they wanted it...

[Mad Dawg]

Can Buddhists or Jews vote in these elections or run as candidates? Is there a prohibition just against atheism? I would have guessed you would have had to be a Muslim, but I'm wrong a lot.