Atheists need not apply

[glockmail]

NC State Constitution Article VI

Sec. 8. Disqualifications for office.

The following persons shall be disqualified for office:
First, any person who shall deny the being of Almighty God. ...

http://www.ncga.state.nc.us/Legislation/constitution/article6.html

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[bullypulpit]

NC State Constitution Article VI

Sec. 8. Disqualifications for office.

The following persons shall be disqualified for office:
First, any person who shall deny the being of Almighty God. ...

http://www.ncga.state.nc.us/Legislation/constitution/article6.html

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The US Constitution Article 6, Para 3 states:

<blockquote>The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and the Members of the several State Legislatures, and all executive and judicial Officers, both of the United States and of the several States, shall be bound by Oath or Affirmation, to support this Constitution; but <b>no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States</b>.</blockquote>

And all state constitutions must be in compliance with the US Constitution.

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[glockmail]

Apparently the NC legislature interprets it differently. :lame2:

[PostmodernProphet]

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

multiple choice or fill in the blank?.......

seems to me that the NC constitution permits Christians, Muslims, Jews, Zoroastrians, Buddhists, Hinds, even agnostics.....it's only atheists who are screwed.....

[Jagger]

NC State Constitution Article VI

Sec. 8. Disqualifications for office.

The following persons shall be disqualified for office:
First, any person who shall deny the being of Almighty God. ...

http://www.ncga.state.nc.us/Legislation/constitution/article6.html

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NC State Constitution ARTICLE I

Sec. 13. Religious liberty.

All persons have a natural and inalienable right to worship Almighty God according to the dictates of their own consciences, and no human authority shall, in any case whatever, control or interfere with the rights of conscience.

[Jagger]

NC State Constitution Article VI

Sec. 8. Disqualifications for office.

The following persons shall be disqualified for office:
First, any person who shall deny the being of Almighty God. ...

http://www.ncga.state.nc.us/Legislation/constitution/article6.html

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Notice that the person was not required to make an affirmative statement of belief in God.

[Jagger]

North Carolina Governor Willie Jones was an agnostic freethinker and stipulated in his will that no one was to insult his body by mumbling religious words over it.

Minister Joseph Caldwell lamented that in North Carolina everyone believes that the first step he ought to take to rise to public office is to disavow, as often and as publicly as he can, all regard for the leading doctrines of the scriptures.'

In 1809 a resident of Edenton wrote sorrowfully to the village paper that he had heard men elected to public office standing in the town declaiming against religion in the presence of their children as if infidelity were meritorious.

Even with religious tests for public office still in place, the avowed agnostic Christopher Dudley served seven times as State Senator for Onslow County

[glockmail]

ag·nos·tic

1: a person who holds the view that any ultimate reality (as God) is unknown and probably unknowable ; broadly : one who is not committed to believing in either the existence or the nonexistence of God or a god

I don't see how that would disqualify someone.

[glockmail]

Article XI, Section 4:


Beneficent provision for the poor, the unfortunate, and the orphan is one of the first duties of a civilized and a Christian state.

:dance:

[Jagger]

I've always held that true Christians are Socialists.

[glockmail]

Christians don't want others to starve, yet they don't expect to pay for someone else's luxuries either.

[Jagger]

Like Thomas Jefferson, I've always held that many Right Wing Christians are actually demon worshipers.

[Jagger]

Christians don't want others to starve.
I guess that why we have socialist programs to prevent that.

[PostmodernProphet]

Like Thomas Jefferson, I've always held that many Right Wing Christians are actually demon worshipers.

perhaps, but then look at all the other ridiculous stuff you've told us you believe.....

[April15]

Who in their right mind cares about what a bunch of NC hicks think anyway?!

[glockmail]

Who in their right mind cares about what a bunch of NC hicks think anyway?! The true thoughts of a liberal rear their ugly bigoted head.

[DannyR]

The true thoughts of a liberal rear their ugly bigoted head.

Lots of laws like this around the nation.

http://www.freethoughtpedia.com/wiki/Laws_and_other_rules_against_atheists_and_agnostic s

My favorite is Arkansas:
Constitution Of The State Of Arkansas Of 1874.

Article 19. Miscellaneous Provisions. § 1. Atheists disqualified from holding office or testifying as witness.
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 CourtBetter hope I don't see someone get murdered. I'll just invoke my constitutional right to avoid testifying. :laugh2:

[April15]

The true thoughts of a liberal rear their ugly bigoted head.Never did like them southern idiots. My sister became one. How gross is that? People ask if I got a sister or brother I say a brother but he's republican. Then we laugh.

[glockmail]

Never did like them southern idiots. My sister became one. How gross is that? People ask if I got a sister or brother I say a brother but he's republican. Then we laugh. Thanks for providing evidence to support my original accusation.

[April15]

Thanks for providing evidence to support my original accusation.I am proud to dislike southerners! Sherman should ride again!

[glockmail]

I am proud to dislike southerners! Sherman should ride again!
Its always a great day when a liberal shows his true intolerant self.

[Jagger]

Someone should write a book on the contradictions found in the religious provisions in the early state constitutions. Some of them are hilarious.

Here, from the Maryland Constitution of 1776, is my favorite example of legal schizophrenia regarding religion at the commencement of the War for Independence.


...nor ought any person to be compelled to frequent or maintain, or contribute, unless on contract, to maintain any particular place of worship, or any particular ministry; yet the Legislature may, in their discretion, lay a general and equal tax, for the support of the Christian religion...

[glockmail]

Someone should write a book on the contradictions in the religion provisions in the State Constitutions. You've failed to show contradictions for NC, so why push it further?

[Psychoblues]

So,,,,,howz it going with all them godless atheists, glockmail?!?!???!?!?!? Are you still shitting your pants scared to death of them?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!??!

Need something to calm them cowardly nerves!??!?!?!???!??!???!

:laugh2::laugh2::laugh2:

:beer::cheers2::beer:

Psychoblues

[Tudor]

Congrats you found a blue law.

[glockmail]

Congrats you found a blue law. Its in the State Constitution ratified in the 1970's; not exactly an archaic 17th century law. *shrug*