[FF578]

Yes.

John Jay said the reason best:

"Providence has given to our people the choice of their rulers, and it is the duty, as well as the privlege and interest of our Christian nation to select and prefer Christians for their rulers."

--JOHN JAY (1745-1829)

[Polonius]

Interesting. Could you clarify, then, why those of other faiths, including Roman Catholics, should be considered unfit for such offices?

[Doctor Doom]

I prefer the primary author of the Constitution, better.

"And I have no doubt that every new example will succeed, as every past one has done, in shewing that religion & Govt will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together. "
-James Madison

[Doctor Doom]

"Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprize [sic], every expanded prospect."
-James Madison

(Even better)