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TygrBright

(21,375 posts)
5. Alf Smith lost a presidential election because he was Catholic...
Thu Feb 23, 2023, 04:03 PM
Feb 2023

...and John F. Kennedy's Presidential candidacy was at risk for the same reason, until he gave his "Church and State" speech.

Catholics, of course, aren't "real" Christians by the standards of fundy wackjobbery. I suspect the Episcopal Church of America and probably the African Methodist Episcopal Church are also not "real" Christians by those standard.

And maybe the United Methodist Church.

And probably a few others.

And this is why the First Amendment includes the clause that "Congress shall make no laws respecting an establishment of religion".

Of course, having a Supreme Court ready to ignore the Establishment clause makes all this "Biblical Worldview" shit possible anyway.

disgustedly,
Bright

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