Why Trump's attack on Biden's faith is really an attack on all religious Americans
The patent absurdity of President Donald Trump’s accusation last week that former Vice President Joe Biden would “hurt the Bible” and “hurt God” ought to finally make clear to any real believer that the president's religious posturing is fraudulent.
Adding to a long list of examples in which he manipulates faith for political gain, the president’s rant in Ohio last Thursday also undermined yet another section of the Constitution — Article 6, Section 3 — which quite specifically states that there is no religious test for office. Even if Biden was an anti-religious superhero, the Constitution that the president swore to protect and defend reminds us that religious faith — or lack of it — should not qualify or disqualify any citizen for elected office.
“He’s following the radical left agenda: take away your guns, destroy your Second Amendment, no religion, no anything, hurt the Bible, hurt God,” Trump said. “He’s against God, he’s against guns.”
Now, reiterating once more that personal faith should have no bearing over a person’s ability to hold public office, it’s worth mentioning that Biden is a practicing Roman Catholic who has talked about his faith openly and often over his decades in public office. "For President Trump to attack my faith is shameful. It's beneath the office he holds and it's beneath the dignity the American people so rightly expect and deserve from their leaders," he said in a statement on Thursday night.
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