Christians try to remove atheist from City Council in North Carolina

December 14, 2009 on MSNBC

The North Carolina constitution states that someone who denies the existence of a supreme being can't hold office. Of course, the U.S. Constitution, which clearly states you can't have any religious test for office, trumps that.

So in the year 2009 we're arguing about banning someone from holding office based on their religious beliefs. 233 years after fighting a war for sovereignty and religious freedom, America of all places is still fighting the same battle.

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[miffed123]

i think more politicians should be atheist atleast they are more honest than christians

[shutemdwn]

he must be a witch. they should burn him at the stake

[BeingNobody1956]

I recently asked someone to sponsor/recommend me for a membership in the Elks and I found out that the Elks require members to take some form of pledge or oath of a belief ib God. Why? what does believing in God have to do with becoming an Elk?

[Zareste]

get your criminal bullshit off youtube

[dimbulb23]

The answer is obvious. Nothing stops a state or any governmental entity from wrongly putting laws on the books that aren't Constitutional. They may even enforce those wrongful laws as long as they are unchallenged and overturned.

Courts can't rule until a case comes before them. No one gripes and it could sit there for a long time.

Kudos to Asheville for ignoring a bogus NC Constitutional provision.

[zabethjohnson]

@shutemdwn

Lol!

[cletedawgthewalmart]

@atheistsoulja lol i live in nc and it is actually in the nc state constitution that all state govnerment officeholders have to be christian, why idk its a really shitty rule to me wat happened to seperation of church and state... byt the state looked the other way, it was the population that called him out on it, and im pretty sure he did get removed or he was asked to resign

[kurisu7885]

Ok, seriously, I know this is old, but they need to leave the guy alone. The law trumps their religion, he lived in the United States and can choose to believe anything, and live anywhere he wishes.

THE END

[kurisu7885]

@miffed123

Wouldn't matter. For one, they'd never get voted in sadly, and two, well, power corrupts, no two ways about it. The religion or lack thereof of of the politician won't matter, as giving someone that much power means they are likely to abuse it.

[atheistsoulja]

Christian tolerance at its finest. 

[rellik31486]

@1954phyllis no u just uninformed and refuse to except that u ppl are nutts