Affronts and Provocations Christians in America. You have to excuse me. I'm a new American, not yet quite up to speed on national attitudes and approaches to things like, oh, Constitutional jurisprudence. Any time one of these church-state controversies blows up, I read the arguments pro and con, scratch my head a bit, then pull out my handy Cato Institute pocket edition of the U.S. Constitution, and try to figure out what all the fuss is about. In that noble document, I read the following: Article VI: "...no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office...