Reply #23: Can't run for office here [View All]

[Bossy Monkey]

Apparently, they couldn't make it stick, though:
http://www.positiveatheism.org/faq/faq1211.htm
"As recently as 1997, the State of South Carolina denied Herb Silverman's application for notary public-simply because he is an atheist. <4> Since 1868, the South Carolina Constitution has said, "No person who denies the existence of the Supreme Being shall hold any office under this Constitution." <5> At least six other states -- Arkansas, Maryland, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Tennessee and Texas -- have similar clauses in their constitutions, but do not enforce them. Silverman prevailed in lower the courts, and prevailed again in the State's Supreme Court after South Carolina's Republican Governor David Beasley, who is a born-again Christian, appealed the ruling in order to protect the status quo of his religion."