To: donna
That means the government can't test - voters can and should. There's at least one "constitutional scholar" on every thread about Mormons who trots that out.
13 posted on
12/16/2007 11:38:07 PM PST by
Graybeard58
( Remember and pray for SSgt. Matt Maupin - MIA/POW- Iraq since 04/09/04)
To: Graybeard58; donna
That means the government can't test - voters can and should.
There's at least one "constitutional scholar" on every thread about Mormons who trots that out.But donna is correct. The "No religious test" does not apply to individuals, just as freedom of speech does not compel media outlets to publish everyone. It's the difference between government restrictions and private discernment.
22 posted on
12/16/2007 11:43:27 PM PST by
Jeff Chandler
("Liberals want to save the world for the children they aren't having." -Mark Steyn)
To: Graybeard58
That means the government can't test - voters can and should. There's at least one "constitutional scholar" on every thread about Mormons who trots that out.
Voters certainly "can." They can decide on any criterion they want to, and do. Whether they "should" is a far shakier contention, but the Constitution would be silent on it.
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