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To: Nervous Tick
The Constitution prohibits a religious test for office...

It does not prohibit it from being a campaign issue brought up by other candidates or voters.

8 posted on 05/30/2007 7:31:57 AM PDT by Always Right
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To: Always Right; Nervous Tick
"The Constitution prohibits a religious test for office..."

It does not prohibit it from being a campaign issue brought up by other candidates or voters.

No, it does not. The Constitution does not presume to govern the darker recesses of the human soul.

It is up to us to reject such bigotry ourselves.

15 posted on 05/30/2007 7:41:19 AM PDT by highball ("I never should have switched from scotch to martinis." -- the last words of Humphrey Bogart)
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