"All current U.S. state constitutions include guarantees of religious liberty parallel to the First Amendment, but eight (Arkansas, Maryland, Massachusetts, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Texas) also contain clauses that prohibit atheists from holding public office.[3][4] However, these clauses have been held by the United States Supreme Court to be unenforceable in the 1961 case of Torcaso v. Watkins, where the court ruled unanimously that such clauses constituted a religious test incompatible with the religious test prohibition in Article 6 Section 3 of the United States Constitution."
>From your own link. Someone in those states needs to get a lawyer. Hell, I'm in NC, hmmmmmmmmm -----Original Message----- From: Casey Dougall [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, February 24, 2010 3:35 PM To: cf-community Subject: Re: Who's religion? On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 2:48 PM, Michael Dinowitz < [email protected]> wrote: > > Exactly > > > Uhmm none? It's pretty expressly stated as such in the Constitution.. > > Well there are religious states, since that's the case, any foreign policy should keep that in mind until their Constitutions are amended. I mean we can't really do much if it conflicts with religion in those areas as that is the underlying basis for all of their laws right? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_religion ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:312566 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
