“ … no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States.”

What wise men were our patriot forefathers who created the Constitution to govern our land. No religious inquisitions were to be held to determine a person’s fitness to hold political office. Although the nation was founded by a majority of Christian Protestants, they insured that Quakers, Catholics, Jews, deists, agnostics and atheists would not be excluded by writing Article VI, Clause 3, into the Constitution of the United States.
Linked at basil’s blog Lunch: 8/10/05 and Right Wing Nuthouse.