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.
Yes, but the constitution explicitly references Jesus in the document. It doesn't reference Yahweh or Allah.
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 do not believe putting the intent of the law in a superior position to that of the letter of the law is a Liberal methodology. The Liberal Methodology is wringing out of the words an intention contrary to that of the people who enacted the law.
Thomas Jefferson agrees with me.
On every question of construction, let us carry ourselves back to the time when the Constitution was adopted, recollect the spirit manifested in the debates, and instead of trying what meaning may be squeezed out of the text, or invented against it, conform to the probable one in which it was passed.