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To: Osage Orange
It didn't / doesn't mean that we weren't supposed to ask about or question a politicians religion.

The article doesn't address whether you should "ask" or not. It encourages that a religious test not be given. The article's intent and the spirit of the writing is abundantly clear.

1,489 posted on 01/27/2008 8:52:24 AM PST by Invincibly Ignorant
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To: Invincibly Ignorant
 
 
 The article's intent and the spirit of the writing is abundantly clear.
 
Yeah!  Just like THIS!!
 

 
 
 
 
 
THE BOOK OF JACOB
THE BROTHER OF NEPHI
CHAPTER 2
 
  24 Behold, David and Solomon truly had many wives and concubines, which thing was abominable before me, saith the Lord.
  25 Wherefore, thus saith the Lord, I have led this people forth out of the land of Jerusalem, by the power of mine arm, that I might raise up unto me a righteous branch from the fruit of the loins of Joseph.
  26 Wherefore, I the Lord God will not suffer that this people shall do like unto them of old.
  27 Wherefore, my brethren, hear me, and hearken to the word of the Lord: For there shall not any man among you have save it be one wife; and concubines he shall have none;
  28 For I, the Lord God, delight in the chastity of women. And whoredoms are an abomination before me; thus saith the Lord of Hosts.
  29 Wherefore, this people shall keep my commandments, saith the Lord of Hosts, or cursed be the land for their sakes.
  30 For if I will, saith the Lord of Hosts, raise up seed unto me, I will command my people; otherwise they shall hearken unto these things.
  31 For behold, I, the Lord, have seen the sorrow, and heard the mourning of the daughters of my people in the land of Jerusalem, yea, and in all the lands of my people, because of the wickedness and abominations of their husbands.
  32 And I will not suffer, saith the Lord of Hosts, that the cries of the fair daughters of this people, which I have led out of the land of Jerusalem, shall come up unto me against the men of my people, saith the Lord of Hosts.
 

Or even HERE:
 

 1 Timothy 3:2-3
 2.  Now the overseer must be above reproach, the husband of but one wife, temperate, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach,
 3.  not given to drunkenness, not violent but gentle, not quarrelsome, not a lover of money.
 
 
1 Timothy 3:12
   A deacon must be the husband of but one wife and must manage his children and his household well.
 
 
 Titus 1:6
   An elder must be blameless, the husband of but one wife, a man whose children believe and are not open to the charge of being wild and disobedient.



 
It's just too bad your Founder and subsequent leaders chose to IGNORE it all !!!

1,570 posted on 01/27/2008 1:26:13 PM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Invincibly Ignorant
The article doesn't address whether you should "ask" or not. It encourages that a religious test not be given. The article's intent and the spirit of the writing is abundantly clear.

You are greatly misunderstanding the clause...

The "no religious test" clause of the United States Constitution is found in Article VI, section 3, and states that: "...no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust under the United States.

This has been interpreted to mean that no federal employee, whether elected or appointed, "career" or "political," can be required to adhere to or accept any religion or belief.

This clause immediately follows one requiring all federal and state officers to take an oath of support to the Constitution. This implies that the requirement of an oath, even presumably one taken "So help me God" (not a part of the presidential oath, the only one spelled out in the Constitution, but traditionally almost always added to it), does not imply any requirement by those so sworn to accept a particular religion or a particular doctrine.

The clause is cited by advocates of separation of church and state as an example of "original intent" of the Framers of the Constitution of avoiding any entanglement between church and state, or involving the government in any way as a determiner of religious beliefs or practices.

This is important as this clause represents the words of the original Framers, even prior to the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment.

The original founders were pretty smart folks....Smarter than you and I.

For whatever that's worth.

1,701 posted on 01/27/2008 6:31:56 PM PST by Osage Orange ("Bill Clinton is an unusually good liar" - Bob Kerry)
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