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To: Mariner

No so clear as you think. Article VI says that there can be no religious test for office. It does not provide for an established church. But there was nothing to keep Eisenhower from appointing a prominent Mormon leader to his cabinet.


101 posted on 02/29/2012 12:33:04 AM PST by RobbyS (Christus rex.)
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To: RobbyS
But there was nothing to keep Eisenhower from appointing a prominent Mormon leader to his cabinet.

Not only that, but he appointed John Foster Dulles Secretary of State. Dulles was a Presbyterian.

103 posted on 02/29/2012 1:16:20 AM PST by cynwoody
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