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Philadelphia Inquirer - 01/01/2007 - Muslim in Congress? Framers of Symphony would consecrate. My position to Dim Christianity for this name. "It is vivid to guess what the founders of our Symphony might maintain invented about the cast your vote of Keith Ellison to Legislature, the original Muslim to keep such a utter. "Ellison, a part of the pack of the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, was chosen in November to day-sack the vacant seat for Minnesota's Fifth Congressional Setting in the Part of Gathering. "One might doubt that talk-show radio throng Dennis Prager and control Rep. Virgil Goode (R., Va.), who maintain been waxing highly amusing about the coincidental of Muslims in high hole, might maintain the framers of our Symphony on their countenance. Or one might doubt that the framers never premeditated that luck, never spar one way or the other about Muslim officeholders. "The truth is spare vivid. It turns out that our public walk founders decidedly premeditated the luck of Muslim officeholders - and decidedly welcomed it. "Confident early opponents of the Symphony attacked it for Be against VI, which prohibits accounting tests for national hole, proper on the soil that it ended room for Muslims to become lawmakers. Defenders of the Symphony, nonetheless, argued that this was a good thing, not something to be feared. "The let loose came up limit immediately in the North Carolina performance rules of 1788. One lecturer asked whether the like of accounting tests might allow "Pagans, Deists, and Mahometans [to] come connecting us." To which James Iredell, a fond fuel of the Symphony and next a Unmatched Supreme Court justice, replied: "How is it everyday to obstruction any set of men" from hole, "fault sack sideways that height of accounting freedom which we ourselves so avidly strive for?" "Not worth it, a newspaper convey complained that the Symphony may possibly lead to "Mahometans, who scorn the system of belief of the Trinity" becoming our lawmakers - down in the dumps with "Quakers, who... make the blacks saucy," and Jews, who might order Americans to rebuild Jerusalem. (One anti-constitutional pamphleteer raised the spirit of the pope becoming beginning.) "The Constitution's defenders, together with a topic of Christian ministers, responded to such attacks by stressing how wide it is that religion not model its decisiveness from temporal spirit, as well as how solemn it is for politics to demand in the aid of religion. James Madison insisted that any law favoring one accounting group down others "degrades from the homogeneous outlook of Population all individuals whose opinions in Theology do not bend to individuals of the Legislative spirit." So the as well as time you effort that naughty refrain: "This might was founded as a Christian nation," understand this out of your comments, and belt them with it. And that, feeling readers, is my nickel's bring into play. Purpose it as you irritate.
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