ABSTRACT
Scholars, pundits, preachers, and jurists acknowledge not only that the Constitution does govern the relationship between religion and the state, but that it ought to govern that relationship as well. Unless the Christian religion is restored to its central place in the public domain, he argued, a “neutral” and secular society will allow public morals to be set by demagogues. But Neuhaus also argued that the Bible and the Judeo-Christian tradition are the pillars upon which American society must rest. Curiously, however, he acknowledged that there is another text that circumscribes the uses to which even the Bible might otherwise be put. The Religious Test Clause is found in the body of the Constitution in Article VI: “no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust under the United States.
