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rug

(82,333 posts) Tue Dec 16, 2014, 08:18 PM Dec 2014

Atheists seek end to ban on Godless public officials

Maryland is one of only six states that maintains a ban on allowing people who do not believe in God from holding public office.

Scott Broom, WUSA
6:39 p.m. EST December 16, 2014

SILVER SPRING, Md. (WUSA9) -- Maryland is one of only six states that maintains a ban on allowing people who do not believe in God from holding public office.

Montgomery County State Senator Jamie Raskin says he supports a request from atheist organizations to change Maryland's constitution to eliminate the ban.

"Its unenforceable," said Raskin, who is not an atheist, but who is a firm believer in the separation of church and state.

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that such bans are unconstitutional in a 1961 case involving an atheist Maryland man who was not allowed to become a notary because he refused to swear an oath to God.

http://www.wusa9.com/story/news/local/2014/12/16/atheists-seek-end-to-ban-on-godless-public-officials/20501463/

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I say let the law stand. AtheistCrusader Dec 2014 #1

AtheistCrusader

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1. I say let the law stand.

Reply to rug (Original post)

Tue Dec 16, 2014, 09:52 PM

Dec 2014

I'll not lift one finger to change something like that. Believers put it in place, they can un-fuck their mistake themselves, when they are honest enough to do the right thing on their own.

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