Religious tests for migration into America
🗣️ DISCUSSION 💬
Anyone else want to ban Catholics, Jews and Muslims from migrating to America? We could tack on other religions but tbh those three appear to be the biggest problem to a sovereign, free nation.
Is this idea Constitutional?
Hear me out real quick-
- Catholics have an allegience to a foreign monarch (the pope) and a religious institution which claims dominion over the whole world.
- Jews have an allegience to a bastardized faith which claims supremecy over non-Jews.
- Muslims have allegience to a false god and a duty to take over the world in his name, and a supremecy over non-Muslims.
Is any of this shit congruent with the Constitution? This is a serious question, I suppose at the heart of it would be whether or not the Constitution needs to wait for a concrete act of treason or if it can prevent treason mid-stream prior to the act itself.
interesting constitutional question! a MAGA compatible test would be nice, which could mean some groups excluded…
re: Constitution & religious test, it would be constitutional, we would just need MAGA judges who understand that when the 1st Amend. set forth that Congress shall pass no law regarding an establishment of religion nor prohibiting the free exercise we still had some States that had tax-supported religion with the people table to designate their church of choice ____ online exhibit Library of Congression: Religion in America https://www.loc.gov/exhibits/religion/rel05.html Massachusetts would never have gone for the 1st. A. if it had meant that they had to give up their right as a state to support religion as they saw. fit.
I’m not saying we should do tax-supported religion at the federal or State levels, just saying that the 1st Amendment historically interpreted would not prevent Congress from limiting who could come into America based on religion
So our present day first amendment just prudence is not a lion with the original meaning
See my response to this post, I think we are thinking alike.
between a choice of Massachusetts’ system when they did tax for religion versus Virginia where T.J.’s views & Virginia dis-establishment happened, v. other States where they did-established taxes for religion yet kept oaths required to be a Christian to run for office,
we are thinking alike on Jeffersonian freedom of religion as far as State laws go. Jefferson’s attitude about not caring at all what religion the people around him held is a different preference than I like, but freedom of conscience to believe & partake or not is a big Jefferson & Madison achievement .for freedom.
good comment, yeah, we’re thinking alike on the constitutional issue