. Article VI of the Constitution states that “no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust under the United States.”
Yet this is EXACTLY what Bernie Sanders and Democratic Sen. Chris Van Hollen of Maryland did to OMB deputy director nominee Russell Vought.
Denying Constitutional Rights, to an American citizen, in the halls of the United States Senate is grounds for impeachment. If Bernie had done this as 'businessman'- he would be subject to felony prosecution, government fines, and one helluva lawsuit.
. During a confirmation hearing for Russell Vought, President Trump’s nominee for deputy director of the Office of Management and Budget, Sanders expressed his indignation at an article Vought had written in January 2016 about a controversy that erupted at Vought’s alma mater, Wheaton College.
Listen to the audio - THIS IS DISGUSTING.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMX3nHWht2k
Above from here: http://thepoliticalinsider.com/bernie-sanders-attacks-christian-trump-nominee/
Another article about this UNCONSTITUTIONAL TIRADE FROM BERNIE SANDERS
http://thefederalist.com/2017/06/09/bernie-sanders-doesnt-think-christians-fit-public-office/
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Here’s what happened. During a confirmation hearing for Russell Vought, President Trump’s nominee for deputy director of the Office of Management and Budget, Sanders expressed his indignation at an article Vought had written in January 2016 about a controversy that erupted at Vought’s alma mater, Wheaton College. A political science professor, Larycia Hawkins, had published a Facebook post announcing her intention to wear a hijab in solidarity with Muslims and suggesting that Christians and Muslims worship the same God.
Vought, a Christian, took issue with Hawkins’s post and defended Wheaton in an article for The Resurgent. During the hearing Wednesday, Sanders repeatedly quoted one particular passage he described as “Islamophobic” and “hateful.” Vought wrote: “Muslims do not simply have a deficient theology. They do not know God because they have rejected Jesus Christ his Son, and they stand condemned.”
As a matter of theology, there is of course nothing objectionable, much less Islamophobic, about that. It is simply a statement of fact: core Christian doctrine, plainly stated in the Bible, says that eternal life comes only through faith in Jesus Christ. Not that exclusivity is unique to Christianity. By their very nature, most religions are exclusive, especially when it comes to salvation.
As for having a “deficient theology,” one could substitute any other religious group for Muslims: Christians also believe that Jews have a deficient theology, along with Hindus, Buddhists, Sikhs, Zoroastrians, and the tens of thousands of Britons who claim membership in the Temple of the Jedi Order. And of course, members of all these religions likely believe Christians have a deficient theology.
To Sanders, Christian Theology Amounts to Bigotry
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