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You miss the point of the post. Rome said Jews and Muslims had to wear special clothing and forbade them from holding office....where have we seen this before??

But the issue is this remains in force as I cannot find any proclamation overturning this....which if it is but another example of Rome changing it's dogmas.

You miss the point of the post. Rome said Jews and Muslims had to wear special clothing and forbade them from holding office....where have we seen this before??

Well, I doubt any Jew or Christian can rise to most high public offices in many Muslim nations.

And I doubt that any Muslim or Christian can rise to most high public offices in Israel. (Yes, there are Arabs in the Kenest, where they can be safely out-voted. But how many Muslims or Christians have ever risen to head of Mossad, Shin Beth, the military, or similar office with real power?)

But the issue is this remains in force as I cannot find any proclamation overturning this....which if it is but another example of Rome changing it's dogmas.

Do you seriously not understand that prescribing that someone wear special clothing and forbidding them from holding office is not a dogma (irreformable doctrine), because it is not a doctrine (teaching) at all, but merely a legislative prescription?

If your pastor decides that he wants to do business with a different landscaping company than the church has previously worked with, is he "changing a dogma"? What if he throws away the old folding chairs from the church hall and buys new ones? Is he "changing a dogma"? Does he need to check the Bible to be sure that it allows him to throw away folding chairs? Wait, where does the Bible even permit folding chairs in the church hall? Where does the Bible permit church halls at all?

Do you see yet how ridiculous this gets? Not everything your church leadership does or says is Biblically warranted, unchangeable doctrine. Same goes for ours.