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To: xsmommy

>>>>you see [religious belief] instead as a disqualifier.

The core of your misunderstanding is that I see it (as does Article VI) as a completely irrelevant non-issue.

And religion also has nothing to do with conservatism whatsoever.

The conflating of religion and politics is in fact destructive and dangerous.


40 posted on 07/31/2008 9:29:02 AM PDT by angkor (Conservatism is not now and never has been a religious movement.)
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To: angkor

i see the eradication of religion from politics and the marketplace of ideas as demonstrably destructive and dangerous. Article VI prohibits a religious test, however it does not prohibit religious people from holding office. A candidate’s faith, just like what books they enjoy, whether they have pets, or children, is going to be a matter of interest. Some people may vote for a candidate because he has a German Shepherd, other’s because he is a man of faith. People cast votes for a variety of different reasons, religion is merely one of them. secular progressives run amok will be our undoing as a nation.


45 posted on 07/31/2008 9:41:01 AM PDT by xsmommy
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