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The supreme religious test of our social order is the hideous commerce of prostitution.

— Jane Addams

A religious test for entering our country is not reflective of America's fundamental values. I reject it.

— Paul Ryan

From a constitutional standpoint, the religion of a candidate is supposed to make no difference. Even before the founding fathers dreamed up the First…

— Noah Feldman

[N]o religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States.

— James Madison

Voters are more than Catholics, Protestants or Jews. They make up their minds for many diverse reasons, good and bad. To submit the candidates…

— John F. Kennedy

If you're an American and you are, you know, subscribing to the ideals and the creed and the values that we believe in as…

— Barack Obama

“James Madison, the author of the First Amendment to the Constitution, prohibiting any law respecting an establishment of religion, was also an author of…

— Christopher Hitchens

Not applying a religious test for public office means that people of all faiths are allowed to run - not that views about God,…

— Jacob Weisberg

It should be heart-breaking to every American that we have a frontrunner in the presidential race that suggests there will be a religious test…

— Joe Biden

I believe the American people are more concerned with a man's views and abilities than with the church to which he belongs. I believe…

— John F. Kennedy

There's no religious test under the constitution. That's what it says. Period.

— John Bolton

“Ours is the only civilization in history which has enshrined mediocrity as its national ideal. Others have been corrupt, but leave it to us…

— Walker Percy