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Simon
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Posted - 07/09/2008 : 07:35:29 [Permalink]
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Did I?
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But yeah, that seems like what the law says. And yet, I am pretty sure that there is a few Buddhists/Hindus floating around in office... |
Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there – on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
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Simon
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Posted - 07/09/2008 : 07:47:06 [Permalink]
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Hank Johnson from Georgia and Mazie Hirono from Hawaii are Buddhists.
I don't expect Hawaii to have too restrictive laws but Georgia might.
(I found this information there. It's amusing on one of the senator put 'vegan' in his religious affiliations...
Also, we might have a few closet atheists, especially Tammy Baldwin that mentions GLBT as his religious affiliation (that's funny in its own right).
*Edit to fix tab*
Also, I just checked Wikipedia pageout of idle curiosity and I have to say Go miss Baldwin!
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Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there – on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
Carl Sagan - 1996 |
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Jumbo
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 Posted - 07/09/2008 : 08:33:25 [Permalink]
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Georgia seems ok actually:
| Paragraph IV. Religious opinions; freedom of religion. No inhabitant of this state shall be molested in person or property or be prohibited from holding any public office or trust on account of religious opinions; |
http://www.cviog.uga.edu/Projects/gainfo/conart1.htm
It says religious opinions rather than that you have to have a religion so it doesn't seem to bar atheists in the way a few others do.
Hawaii doesn't seem to mention religion at all in its regulations on eligability for office.
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Simon
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Posted - 07/09/2008 : 10:57:36 [Permalink]
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Well, I was not expecting Hawaii to, as it was added to the Union relatively late and has always been mixed in term of the religions it harbour.
But the conservative Georgia do surprise me. Good surprise too. |
Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there – on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
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Valiant Dancer
Forum Goalie
USA
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Posted - 07/25/2008 : 20:23:10 [Permalink]
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Something in my mind says that even though these exist, that they are effectively useless due to SCOTUS rulings. East coast. Atheist Notary Public. Can't remember the case.
Knew I remembered it.
TORCASO v. WATKINS, 367 U.S. 488 (1961)
http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?navby=CASE&court=US&vol=367&page=488
This caused many states with pre-existing religious tests in their constitutions to re-write them.
Some states chose not to due to cost. Those provisions, like deeds with language forbiding sale to a negro, are held to be unenforceable acts.
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Cthulhu/Asmodeus when you're tired of voting for the lesser of two evils
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
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Posted - 07/26/2008 : 02:51:04 [Permalink]
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Miscegenation, what an unusual word. The term "crime against nature" seem suspect as I don't think they had Superfund in mind. Moral turpitude and the "any crime punishable by imprisonment in the penitentiary" thing are also suspect, who knows what was illegal back then.
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In this this case, "crimes against nature" stands for any consensual, sexual act other than heterosexual intercourse and quite possibly the missionary position only. That would include masturbation. Pretty up-tight, those constitutional framers -- everything they didn't agree with was "immoral" and therefore made illegal. Heh, I am reminded that there were no interstate rest areas nor airport bathrooms back in the day.....
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