Has nobody ever read Article VI of the Constitution? “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 no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States.”
What does "under the United States" mean? No test shall be required in any *federal* capacity, or in *any* capacity? I'm not so sure that all the first section of what you posted (which clearly refers to the State Legislatures etc.) carries over to the second.
I'm no Constitutional Scholar, but the reason I'm sticking on this point is that it's hard for me to see how the religious tests for office that clearly existed in the Federal period were not struck down immediately by Article 4. Also...how would article 4 have passed in the first place if there were states who had such tests for office?
Something's not jiving here.
I would have to say that Article VI is the law in this case.