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As it should be To the editor -- Even though most of its citizens claim to be Christians, the United States is not a Christian nation. It was not founded as one. We are a nation under a secular Constitution. God is not mentioned in the Constitution, nor is Jesus, nor Christianity. The only mention of religion in the original document was in Article VI, Section 3, which excluded a religious test to hold office. Two years later, religion was referred to in the establishment and free exercise clauses, which were added as two of the six freedoms guaranteed in the First Amendment.
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Mitt Romney was finally forced to give the speech he would rather not have delivered. In it, he addressed the unpleasant fact that many voters, regardless of what the Constitution says about there being no religious test to hold office in this country, believe his Mormon faith somehow disqualifies him from the presidency.
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...Both religious and nonreligious schools in the district may parti...We hold that it does not. There are more than 75,000 child....11 (Anderson 1999) (establishing a single "office of school options" to "provide services that facil... of cases in this area has been the Lemon test. As originally formulated, a statute passed this t...
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By Bill Bartel | The Virginian-Pilot washington
AT HIS DESK in the Rayburn House Office Building, U.S. Rep. Randy Forbes often looks up to... try to chip away at any vestige of religious activity in government. Non believers "have had ge..."You cannot have a religious test to hold office.". LeGrow said he's never talked to...
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...Ambiguities in Ricci's Holding: Colorblindness or Antibalkanization? D. Antibalka... a civil service exam for fire department officers because the City was concerned that the original e... may not be New Haven's effort to identify a test for selecting employees without racial disparate i... not as members of racial, ethnic, or religious groups. It is for this reason that we must subject...
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We're getting close to the beginning of the new presidential election cycle, so we must get back to Sunday school. The pundits are parsing religion again. Somebody has to pose the liberals' religious test for public office. Bill Keller, executive editor of the New York Times, thinks the nation is in peril because several Republican candidates - and the incumbent president as well - are men and women of religious faith. Mr. Keller likens religious faith to claims "that space aliens dwell among us" and says presidential candidates should be put to a faith test to determine whether they're fit to hold public office. A belief that extraterrestrial creatures have visited Earth doesn't necessarily disqualify a candidate "out of hand," he says, but a careful voter "would certainly want to ask ...
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... of none shall be abridged on account of religious belief or worship, nor shall any national religion... (as we have seen) of all religious tests. Thus, the whole power over the subject of religio..., and to make it a matter of state policy to hold all in utter indifference, would have created univ... on religion because the issuing officer was authorized to inquire whether the applicant di...
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TODAY'S New Hampshire primary looms large on the political horizon. In the midst of lively public debates over taxes, jobs, the national debt and similarly important questions related to the future vitality of our nation, a different kind of question continues to privately occupy the minds of some prospective voters: Can I vote for a Mormon? This is an important question in our constitutional democracy. Without endorsing or even praising (much less criticizing) any candidate, I strongly encourage Americans who would ask this question of themselves to consider and weigh thoughtfully our nation's constitutional traditions. At their best, those are traditions of welcoming religious forbearance.
... made it absolutely clear that no religious test should ever be imposed to hold office. The Founder...
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... (2003) refers to the idea that individuals hold a set of moral beliefs (distinct from religious be... employees for the purpose of developing, testing and presenting research that explains the relation... to influence the design and manufacture of office and health care furniture. One of the ways to meas...
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... based upon prudential, aesthetic, religious, and moral values. They seek to guide their lives ... are cosmopolitan accounts that explicitly hold that thesis. (4) Such accounts are not readily abl... which one or more of each could pass such a test. . 3. Egalitarian Ideals for the State and the Glo... enforcement of procedures for attaining offices of leadership; and the manner in which all the rul...
