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To: Locomotive Breath

First, the guy won, period. The law is at this point and time, unconstitutional.

Second, this looks very entertaining!


2 posted on 12/11/2009 5:38:55 AM PST by autumnraine (You can't fix stupid, but you can vote it out!)
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To: autumnraine

Congress shall pass no laws ...
However some states had state religions at the time of the signing of the constitution, and it was, and I believe, still is, legal.


4 posted on 12/11/2009 5:46:37 AM PST by Forrestfire (("To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society." Theodore Roosevelt))
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To: autumnraine
The law is at this point and time, unconstitutional.

Is it? I don't think it is actually. Religious tests for state office were very much in force in the Federal period.

6 posted on 12/11/2009 5:55:50 AM PST by Claud
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To: autumnraine

Agreed.


12 posted on 12/11/2009 6:16:37 AM PST by Blood of Tyrants (The Second Amendment. Don't MAKE me use it.)
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