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How many ways can you really say that any government position should be free of any religious fanaticism? You can count them using the fingers on one hand.

“I would not advocate that we put a Muslim in charge of this nation. I absolutely would not agree with that,” said Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press.”

Perhaps Carson, a retired neurosurgeon, should have stuck to the script when addressing religion and public office. That is, the script out of the United States Constitution. It appears there, is where a less controversial pronouncement of the separation of religion and public office could be made:

The Establishment Clause is the first of several pronouncements in the First Amendment to the United States Constitution, stating,

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof…

The Establishment Clause was written by Congressman Fisher Ames in 1789, who derived it from discussions in the First Congress of various drafts that would become the amendments comprising the Bill of Rights. The second half of the Establishment Clause includes the Free Exercise Clause, which attempts to guarantee freedom from governmental interference in both private and public religious affairs of all kinds.

The Establishment Clause is a limitation placed upon the United States Congress preventing it from passing legislation respecting an establishment of religion. The second half of the Establishment Clause inherently prohibits the government from preferring any one religion over another; which tends to allow for a greater harmony amongst all of the many denominations in the United States.[citation needed] While the Establishment Clause does prohibit Congress from preferring or elevating one religion over another, still it does not prohibit the government’s entry into the religious domain to make accommodations for religious observances and practices in order to achieve the purposes of the Free Exercise Clause.

Through time, Carson’s declaration will be aired out. And most likely, for his sake, his perspective will fall in line with the First Amendment.

The forbiddings accounted for in the Establishment Clause account for and anticipated incidences such as those in recent and historical times.

Take for instance the Rowan County clerk Kim Davis. She has a very strong religious view which she has permitted to contaminate the responsibilities of the government position she held.

If any form of religious based policy making is imposed upon the citizens under which a public official holds, that is criminal and should be strongly eradicated from our system of government.

Germany’s infamous Hitler had very strong opinions against those of the Jewish faith and heritage. Without restraint, he imposed his will, with the power of the government office he held, upon millions.