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Slater
SFN Regular
USA
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 Posted - 08/01/2002 : 08:24:27
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http://www.nebraskaatheists.org/article1.htm
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My business is to teach my aspirations to conform themselves to fact, not to try and make facts harmonize with my aspirations. ---Thomas Henry Huxley, 1860
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Lisa
SFN Regular
USA
1223 Posts |
Posted - 08/01/2002 : 09:29:34 [Permalink]
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Umm, right.
Do you know if any of these have ever been challenged? I'm curious, since there are so many archaic state laws still on the books.
We have enough youth. We need a fountain of smart. |
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Tokyodreamer
SFN Regular
USA
1447 Posts |
Posted - 08/01/2002 : 09:50:38 [Permalink]
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Alabama isn't on the list?! That's a change...
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Chippewa
SFN Regular
USA
1496 Posts |
Posted - 08/01/2002 : 10:13:03 [Permalink]
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Many of these articles read as if they were written in the 18th century. (I know they weren't!) Apparently Vikings who worship Odin (if any could be found,) can run for office in these States (except in Massachusetts, where they are not equal under the law along with Jewish, Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists, and Atheists.) I suppose Agnostics can only run for office on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Saturdays? Gad Zooks!
"Speaking without thinking like shooting without aiming." - Charlie Chan
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Donnie B.
Skeptic Friend
417 Posts |
Posted - 08/01/2002 : 15:36:18 [Permalink]
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Dang, you mean I can't run for Lt. Gov. of South Carolina, then (rubs his evil atheistic hands together) liquidate the Gov. and take over?
Shucks, there goes my whole plan.
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-- Donnie B.
Brian: "No, no! You have to think for yourselves!" Crowd: "Yes! We have to think for ourselves!" |
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Trish
SFN Addict
USA
2102 Posts |
Posted - 08/01/2002 : 22:23:50 [Permalink]
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Hmm, they only found 7 state constitutions that are discriminatory? Wow, Dr Eller here in denver has a list of 21 or 23 (I can't remember) state constitutions that are discriminatory against atheists, or require a belief in something supernatural for office. I kinda thought that was unconstitutional.
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@tomic
Administrator
USA
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Posted - 08/01/2002 : 22:46:27 [Permalink]
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Kinda unconstitutional yes but as we have seen a fair number of Americans think the Declaration of Independence is a legal document Hell, after a few lines our President thinks he can quiz prospects for federal judge positions on their religious beliefs crazy as that might sound.
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Gravity, not just a good idea...it's the law! |
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Valiant Dancer
Forum Goalie
USA
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Posted - 08/02/2002 : 12:53:24 [Permalink]
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quote:
Umm, right.
Do you know if any of these have ever been challenged? I'm curious, since there are so many archaic state laws still on the books.
We have enough youth. We need a fountain of smart.
They have. These parts are, of course, unConstitutional under Article VI, paragraph 3.
Maryland's proscription was challenged successfully in TORCASO v. WATKINS, 367 U.S. 488 (1961).
http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?navby=case&court=us&vol=367&invol=488
In which it says
"Appellant was appointed by the Governor of Maryland to the office of Notary Public; but he was denied a commission because he would not declare his belief in God, as required by the Maryland Constitution. Claiming that this requirement violated his rights under the First and Fourteenth Amendments, he sued in a state court to compel issuance of his commission; but relief was denied. The State Court of Appeals affirmed, holding that the state constitutional provision is self-executing without need for implementing legislation and requires declaration of a belief in God as a qualification for office. Held: This Maryland test for public office cannot be enforced against appellant, because it unconstitutionally invades his freedom of belief and religion guaranteed by the First Amendment and protected by the Fourteenth Amendment from infringement by the States. Pp. 489-496.
223 Md. 49, 162 A. 2d 438, reversed. "
Cthulu/Asmodeus, when you're tired of voting for the lesser of two evils. |
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Tim
SFN Regular
USA
775 Posts |
Posted - 08/05/2002 : 03:13:48 [Permalink]
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I'm with Tokyo. For once Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana and Arkansas isn't among the infamous. But, don't tell those state legislators. They don't need any new ideas.
"Many of those people involved with Adolph Hitler were Satanists, many of them were homosexuals--the two things seem to go together."--Pat Robertson, "The 700 Club," 1/21/93 |
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