When you start talking like Mike Johnson about how people need to follow his religion and how our government needs to enforce his religious values, you're too religious to be allowed in government.
Or using faith-based arguments to delineate if proper healthcare should be deemed illegal…
While implied by your statement, I feel the need to point it out seperately because even people who talk and act in a way that indicates they socially accept a diverse set of people, can have such strong ties to their religion that they can only see the moralistic argument in biblical terms (or at least terms fox news or their pastor keeps telling them), even if they don't want to force everyone to go to church on sundays or stop practicing their own religion/non-religion
Being too religious should absolutely disqualify you, just like believing the world is flat or any number of other complete nonsense should disqualify you.
If they’re too religious… they should be disqualified…
The line for you being that they try to force their beliefs on others. Which, personally, I view as a given when their campaign platform includes “Christian Values” (or any other religion’s values,)
If you can’t make a secular argument…. It doesn’t belong in government.
That is the opposite of what this country was built on; freedom of religion.
Being religious should not disqualify anyone, but if you push past separation of church and state then and only then should you be disqualified
I'm pretty sure that was the point of the original comment.
Who decides what is too religious?
When you start talking like Mike Johnson about how people need to follow his religion and how our government needs to enforce his religious values, you're too religious to be allowed in government.
Or using faith-based arguments to delineate if proper healthcare should be deemed illegal…
While implied by your statement, I feel the need to point it out seperately because even people who talk and act in a way that indicates they socially accept a diverse set of people, can have such strong ties to their religion that they can only see the moralistic argument in biblical terms (or at least terms fox news or their pastor keeps telling them), even if they don't want to force everyone to go to church on sundays or stop practicing their own religion/non-religion
Me
I know a guy named Doug he's, pretty smart
Being too religious should absolutely disqualify you, just like believing the world is flat or any number of other complete nonsense should disqualify you.
So… you’re saying ….
If they’re too religious… they should be disqualified…
The line for you being that they try to force their beliefs on others. Which, personally, I view as a given when their campaign platform includes “Christian Values” (or any other religion’s values,)
If you can’t make a secular argument…. It doesn’t belong in government.
The Puritans came here to seperate THEIR church from the state, after that it became them imposing their religion on natives.
The actual country's founding in 1776 was. Far from religious, and many of the founding fathers were not religious or outright anti religion
Bring religious should be a disqualification. You have a higher master you serve. You can't be trusted to put the country and the citizens first.
I imagine they weren't being serious
Religious beliefs are not disqualifying, but if that's your whole way of being, you should not hold public office. Render unto Caesar.