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trotsky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-29-05 12:31 PM
Response to Reply #63
68. Arkansas and South Carolina for starters.
Arkansas' state constitution says:

No person who denies the being of a God shall hold any office in the civil departments of this State, nor be competent to testify as a witness in any court.
(http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/data/constitution/const7.html#Sec1Atheistsdisqualifiedfromholdi)

This appears twice in SC's constitution:
No person who denies the existence of the Supreme Being shall hold any office under this Constitution.
(http://www.scstatehouse.net/scconstitution/a06.htm and http://www.scstatehouse.net/scconstitution/a17.htm)

Sorry to be so whiny. But would you be as dismissive if instead of banning atheists from office, these states banned Jews or blacks?
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