Sentences with phrase «religious test»

It's the Republican party that has religious tests for your politicians..

To me a more meaningful interpretation is inherent in the notion of religious test.

The No Religious Test Clause of the United States Constitution is found in Article VI, paragraph 3, and states that:

Yet the great paradox of American religious freedom is how a nation, overwhelmingly Protestant, that enacted laws against blasphemy, required religious tests for public office, and generally assumed that Christianity provided a base for democratic government welcomed people of every religion (and none) even before there arose what Sehat describes as «the Liberal Moment»: the slow, primarily judge - driven dissolution of any formal connections between religion and the state.

There is NO religious test for the presidency of the United States of America.

It is likely that the coalition formed there failed to notice that their merger was never perfected, for they separately envisioned two very different foundations: «one fully under the control of the bishops and one committed, above all else, to theological education... [and] a church - sponsored university but otherwise one without religious tests or even theological schools, one open to the latest science and scholarship.»

on how he would rule on potential religious tests and Trump's controversial travel ban toward Muslim - majority countries.

The expectation that candidates talk about God and their personal religious beliefs shifts attention away from critical policy concerns, creates a de facto religious test for office and essentially disenfranchises those of minority faiths or who have no faith.

However, such inquiry can not flourish — in many cases, can not even survive — inside institutions that erect religious tests for truth.

Once you've got a functional religious test for who belongs in America, why not add an ethnic one, too?

A recent religious test showed that agnostics and atheists scored much higher on knowledge of the Bible than Christians did and had more education on average.

NPS's actions «demonstrate animus towards the religious viewpoints of Dr. Snelling,» the complaint alleges, «and violate Dr. Snelling's free exercise rights by imposing inappropriate and unnecessary religious tests to his access to the park.»

Abbott stated that some feared that without religious tests, «Pagans, Deists, and Mahometans might obtain offices among us,» and that legislators might some day «all be Pagans.»

And let the history of all nations be searched, from that day until this, and it will appear that the imposing of religious tests hath been the greatest engine of tyranny in the world.»

He is NOT muslim, and what if he were??? There is NO religious test to be President of the US...

@ Mark — well, considering that the US was founded as a secular nation, and our consti.tution guarantees we can tell any version of any god to take a flying leap, and that same doc.ument says you caanot impose any type of religious test for any office, and we have treaties with other nations specifically stating we are not a christian nation --

Responding to questions about Trump's views on immigration, Thiel said he did not support a religious test for Muslims as Trump has advocated for, and went on to say he did not believe Trump supporters take literally the candidate's repeated calls to build a wall along the Mexican border and make the neighboring country pay for it.

We have a presidential nominee who smears Mexicans as «rapists,» who wants to institute a religious test to enter a country founded on religious freedom, who wants to erect barriers and walls.

Severino, the chief counsel of the conservative Judicial Crisis Network, called Feinstein's line of questioning «anti-Catholic» and «wrongheaded on so many levels,» adding that there are «no religious tests» for such positions in the US.

He also charged that it was «not a coincidence» that the statement on Holocaust Remembrance Day came the same day as Trump's executive order, which he described as a «religious test,» chalking both up to the influence of top White House strategist Steve Bannon.

Kaine continued: «The fact that they [issued the statement] and imposed this religious test against Muslims in the executive orders on the same day, this is not a coincidence.»

The fact that they did that and imposed this religious test against Muslims in the executive orders on the same day, this is not a coincidence.»

We're dealing with one candidate who advocates a religious test for welcoming refugees (and potentially citzenship) and who, at the very least, has a history of mysogony and objectifying women.

The interpretation of the no religious test clause propounded by good people like Bill Bennett and William McGurn would put it at odds with at least two clauses of the First Amendment.

Our friend Matt Franck is absolutely right that those of our friends who use the «no religious test» clause of the Constitution to condemn religious bigotry have got it absolutely wrong.

Oh and I forgot — «no religious test» etc..

Its is sad in a nation that holds to the principal of «no religious test» to hold office still clings to the idea that a person of faith in a magical sky dweller is better than a person with no faith who relies on logic, science, the real world and the here - and - now instead of the here - after.

The Constitution insists that no religious test shall ever be required for public office.

of the Constitution of the United States is very clear on this subject: «but no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States.»

They imposed a religious test not just for public office but for any sort of role in public life.

We can't support a religious test in the United States, or in any other country.

«We don't have religious tests to our compassion,» President Barack Obama told Turkish reporters this week.

I think of how I dug deep into the Scripture, not to pass some religious test, but because I desperately needed the sort of truth that could set me free.

@ME II: Many point to the 14th and its equal protection clause, but many also point to Article 6's «no religious test» clause also.

@Live4Him, Many point to the 14th and its equal protection clause, but many also point to Article 6's «no religious test» clause also.

Those with any moral clarity at all have heard a better voice in this campaign: no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification, but the test of values and integrity, and a president who respects family and rights of faith is better than one who, like you, claims a religious label but then opposes family and faith.

And doesn't Article VI of the Consti.tution state,»... no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust under the United States.»

states: «but no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States.»

For example, the charters of schools like Union, Columbia, Cornell, Princeton, Brown, and Michigan all provided that no religious test could be used in appointments.

The governance that the angry General Conference wanted to have and sued to retain was not what would have done the church any good in the days to follow, for it had narrowed its view of what it meant to be Methodist to things like a religious test for all faculty and disciplinary control over students.

After scoring a 10 out of 10 on this «Religious Test», I found it did not test my knowledge at all.

I also don't see the Church advocating for a religious test before admission.

... but no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States.

(By require I mean public pressure, not by law, since that would violate the «no religious test» portion of the Consti.tution.)

US Consti.tution Article IV»... no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States.»