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Gov. Mark Sanford, South Carolina: “King David didn’t resign after his sex scandal, so neither will I!”
“As King of Israel and Judea, David saw Bathsheba in the bath (he was walking on the roof at the time, goes the story) and immediately had to have her. After getting her pregnant, he tried to conceal it by ordering her husband Uriah to return from war and sleep with Bathsheba, so that the baby would be thought of as Uriah's.
But Uriah preferred to remain at war. So David gave an order that Uriah should be abandoned in battle, ensuring his death. Then he married Bathsheba.”[1]
As a minor side note, David was anointed as king…The only way out was death or immigration to Argentina…
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The Constitution of the Sovereign State of North Carolina: “The following persons shall be disqualified for office: First, any person who shall deny the being of Almighty God…”
As an observation, isn’t it a denial of the being of Almighty God to assume Him to be insufficiently Almighty to fight His own battles? I mean, how Almighty do you need to be before you can release your minions to tackle corruption and apostasy within their churches?
Should an atheist councilman in NC be allowed to serve public office? Commentary
December 15, 9:30 AMhttp://image.examiner.com/img/greydot.gifLiberal Issues Examinerhttp://image.examiner.com/img/greydot.gifWilliam Skordelis
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Should an atheist be allowed to serve in public office? Some people in Asheville, North Carolina don’t believe that the councilman-elect, Cecil Bothwell, should be allowed to take his seat on the city council based entirely on the fact that he is an atheist.
Article 6, section 8 of North Carolina’s state Constitution says:
The following persons shall be disqualified for office: First, any person who shall deny the being of Almighty God.”
Bothwell’s political opponents are talking about the possibility of a lawsuit against the City of Asheville and the Board of Elections, should Bothwell be sworn into office.
There is one little problem for said God-fearing opponents, the First Amendment to the United States Constitution and the court precedents that have established the U.S. Constitution’s authority to trump state and local laws when conflicts occur.
First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution:
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
The very first sentence of the very first amendment to our constitution, the top of the list of what became known as the “Bill of Rights,” not only allows people to establish whatever form of religion they want and to be protected from any governmental “prohibiting the free exercise therof,” it also prohibits government from establishing any official religion. By not being permitted to form an “official religion,” likewise the government cannot place any religious requirements on a government post.
But there’s more, pesky, federalist constitutional meddling that’s bad news for Bothwell’s opponents, Article VI of the U.S. Constitution which says:
No religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States.”
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January 15, 2010
Pat Robertson:
Earthquake God’s punishment for Haitian Slave’s ‘Pact with the devil’ to win freedom from France…
Aside from the minor observation that the slave ancestors of Haiti were deposited there by good Christian capitalists of Europe and America, you have to wonder how powerful the devil can be if he can’t protect his constituency…After all, those Christians who have sold out to the American Dream by becoming rich and famous televangelists seem to have been protected…
In adding insult to injury, Robertson suggested that the earthquake may have been a “blessing in disguise” as a prelude to rebuilding the infrastructure…Tell that to 100,000 families, a good percentage of whom likely are Christians…
The prosperity gospel in action!
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