5 People Who Bravely Fought Christian Takeover of America
After the Revolution, when the federal Constitution was being drafted, a delegate from South Carolina named Charles Pinckney decided that there should be no such religious qualifications for federal office. He added a line to the end of Article VI - a provision that makes it clear that the Constitution is the supreme law of the land and that judges and elected representatives are bound to follow it - that read, “[N]o religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States.”