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To: Above My Pay Grade
It is not really open to interpretation. A person’s religion can not bar them from office, period.

So you say, but that is not necessarily the intent of the Delegates when they wrote that clause. Just as the purpose of the 14th amendment was to grant citizenship to newly freed slaves, but has been since used to justify "anchor babies" , abortion, homosexual marriage, and a whole series of other things, it is obvious that these interpretations are far outside the intent of Congress when it created the 14th amendment.

You must interpret the meaning of that clause in the frame of reference from which it originated, and in 1787 the intent was to reassure everyone that different denominations of the Christian faith would have equal access to government offices and positions.

It was never intended to apply to people outside of a denomination of the Christian faith.

Just as the Declaration of Independence uses the phrase "All men are created equal and endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights, among them life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness..." was not intended to apply to slaves.

Modern people come along and say that clause prohibits slavery, when in fact it did nothing of the sort. The very man who wrote it, and most of his contemporaries continued owning slaves long after that clause was written, so therefore it does not mean that.

So too does that article in the Constitution likely not mean what people thinks it means.

105 posted on 09/21/2015 8:51:03 AM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: DiogenesLamp

When the wording is crystal clear, there is no need to go to original intent. Islam, Judaism and dozens of other religions existed at that time it was written.

You sound like a Liberal Activist judge who reads the Constitution the way he would like it to read rather than how it read.

I am sure the founders would not want a Muslim president, but they left that responsibility up to us and we fulfill it by not voting for the goat banging savages.


116 posted on 09/21/2015 9:15:46 AM PDT by Above My Pay Grade (Donald Trump: New York City Liberal)
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