Republican lawmakers ask Jeff Sessions to ensure no religious test for government jobs

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Washington Examiner


by Josh Siegel | Jun 30, 2017, 10:22 PM


More than 60 Republican lawmakers want Attorney General Jeff Sessions to reaffirm to them that the Justice Department will not administer a religious test for people to work in government.

The letter written to Sessions by 64 Republicans was inspired by questions asked by Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., to Russell Vought, President Trump's nominee for deputy director of the Office of Management and Budget, at his confirmation hearing earlier this month.

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"Questions were asked during a recent Senate Budget Committee hearing about an executive branch nominee's adherence to the Christian faith, suggesting that such beliefs disqualified the nominee from service," the lawmakers wrote.

The lawmakers, including Sen. James Lankford, R-Okla., and Rep. Mark Walker, R-N.C., asked Sessions to "make clear" that "no religious test will ever be required to serve in the government of the United States."

Read more: http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/republican-lawmakers-ask-jeff-sessions-to-ensure-no-religious-test-for-government-jobs/article/2627615

[gopiscrap]

1. Sessions is a vile piece of shit

[Doreen]

3. My exact thought.

[Snake Plissken]

2. You can't disqualify a candidate who wants to infringe on everyone else's religious freedom

What how fast they reverse their view on this the second a Muslim of Atheist is nominated for a position.

[bresue]

4. Sessions and so many Rubs hide behind their religion to do anything they chose....

talk about selective Christianity!

[vkkv]

5. I'm sure the request was given with a BIG WINK-WINK by Wingnut Lankford..

These guys are major assholes.

[dalton99a]

6. Betcha he's already filled the jobs with Liberty University law graduates

[Hortensis]

7. How does the establishment clause apply to federal hiring, I wonder?

[DK504]

8. Ask??

"More than 60 Republican lawmakers want Attorney General Jeff Sessions to reaffirm to them that the Justice Department will not administer a religious test for people to work in government. "

Fuck asking. Demand he not administer an illegal religious test for a government job. There's that whole separation of church and state thingy that our Founders demand in our Constitution so no religious power can rule over a sovereign nation like the Vatican did for hundreds of years.

I guess the whole World history in schools has been absent for a couple of generations now. Showing up in every aspect of our lives, "The Handmaiden's Tale" becoming another documentary like Idiocracy has. Do we really need to keep reminding these assholes in DC they work for us, not Pat Robertson.

[WinstonSmith4740]

9. Here's what's pathetic.

These idiots feel they have to ask the top lawyer in the country to affirm something that is CLEARLY WRITTEN INTO THE CONSTITUTION they claim to worship so much. And they're only doing it because they think they were on the receiving end of being judged by their religious beliefs. Why don't they just straight out ask him if he intends to uphold The Constitution like he swore to?

Article 6, Paragraph 3 states: 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.