{"id":11419,"date":"2015-10-27T13:48:45","date_gmt":"2015-10-27T13:48:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=11419"},"modified":"2015-10-27T13:48:45","modified_gmt":"2015-10-27T13:48:45","slug":"faith-should-be-off-limits-on-the-campaign-trail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=11419","title":{"rendered":"Faith should be off limits on the campaign trail"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/No-religious-test-of-office-320x1241.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11038\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/No-religious-test-of-office-320x1241-300x116.jpg\" alt=\"No-religious-test-of-office-320x1241\" width=\"300\" height=\"116\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/No-religious-test-of-office-320x1241-300x116.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/No-religious-test-of-office-320x1241.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I keep coming back to a simple phrase in the U.S. Constitution.<\/p>\n<p>Article VI says there will be &#8220;no religious test&#8221; for anyone seeking public office.<\/p>\n<p>Isn&#8217;t that clear? As in crystal clear?<\/p>\n<p>Why, then, is Donald Trump injecting faith in the Republican Party&#8217;s presidential primary campaign by questioning whether one of his opponents, Ben Carson, worships outside the mainstream?<\/p>\n<p>Trump proclaimed the other day he is a Presbyterian. \u201cI\u2019m Presbyterian. Boy, that\u2019s down the middle of the road, folks, in all fairness. I mean, Seventh-day Adventist, I don\u2019t know about. I just don\u2019t know about.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Carson is a Seventh-day Adventist.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/ballot-box\/presidential-races\/258171-trump-injects-faith-into-gop-race\">How does this guy get away<\/a> with saying these things about his political adversaries?<\/p>\n<p>A candidate&#8217;s faith is supposed to be off the table. The Constitution &#8212; the document that politicians, Democrat and Republican and alike say they revere &#8212; lays it out there in stark terms. There must be &#8220;no religious test.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Trump, though, flouts his professed respect for the Constitution while questioning whether another candidate&#8217;s faith is mainstream enough to suit the voters both men are courting as they fight for their party&#8217;s presidential nomination.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s more &#8230; <em>the guy is getting away with it!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>God help us &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I keep coming back to a simple phrase in the U.S. Constitution. Article VI says there will be &#8220;no religious test&#8221; for anyone seeking public office. Isn&#8217;t that clear? As in crystal clear? 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