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To: DiogenesLamp
I'm arguing that the prohibition against religious tests doesn't mean what people think either.

And you are free to keeping doing so, Don Quixote. But it doesn't make you any more correct.

135 posted on 09/21/2015 10:36:18 AM PDT by gdani (No sacred cows)
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To: gdani
And you are free to keeping doing so, Don Quixote. But it doesn't make you any more correct.

I didn't say I was correct. I only said that the current interpretation is not necessarily true. The history of our nation of which I am aware indicates that the purpose of the prohibition against a religious test for office was to smooth over disputes in a coalition of states with differing state religions.

It is reasonable to believe that the clause was no more intended to apply to Muslims than the Declaration of Independence was intended to apply to slaves, despite what appears to be clear words to the contrary.

It appears to me that the burden of proof should be on those people who want to claim that a document which specifically mentions Jesus, can claim that the religious test clause was actually meant to allow Muslims to serve.

In any case, the future continuation of the nation will require that this interpretation, whether true or false, be rejected.

The principles of the United States are incompatible with Islam. They cannot coexist because they are opposite and contradictory. Either one or the other must win.

138 posted on 09/21/2015 10:50:41 AM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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