There’s a link on FARK today pointing to an article that discusses how Atheists, by law, cannot be elected to public office in 7 US States. For example:
The Bill of Rights of the Texas Constitution (Article I, Section 4) allows people to be excluded from holding office on religious grounds. An official may be “excluded from holding office” if she/he does not “acknowledge the existence of a Supreme Being.”
This form of religious intolerance is not limited to Texas. Six other states ( MA, MD, NC, PA, SC and TN) all have similar language included in their Bill of Rights, Declaration of Rights, or in the body of their constitutions.
The site quotes text from the other states’ constitutions. Interesting.
The people commenting on FARK are saying that the religious references in these state constitutions don’t matter, as the US constitution makes them useless. But I’m just wondering: why leave something in a state constitution that is completely invalidated by federal law?
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