What a coincidence - that's also Saudi Arabia's policy!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.