[WASHINGTONTIMES] Sixty-four Republican politicians sent a letter Friday asking Attorney General Jeff Sessions to reaffirm the constitutional prohibition against religious tests for public office.
Led by Rep. Mark Walker of North Carolina and Sen. James Lankford of Oklahoma, the memo is a response to questions raised by Sen. Bernie Sanders
...The only openly Socialist member of the U.S. Senate. Sanders was Representative-for-Life from Vermont until moving to the Senate for the rest of his life in 2006, assuming the seat vacated by Jim Jeffords...
, Vermont Independent, at a hearing last month to confirm one of President Trump’s nominees to the Office of Management and Budget.
"While there is continuous debate about the scope and meaning of the religion clauses in the First Amendment," the letter reads, "the text of Article VI has been clear: no religious test shall ever (emphasis added) be required as a qualification to any public office or public trust under the United States."
"Yet, questions were asked during a recent Senate Budget Committee hearing about an executive branch nominee’s adherence to the Christian faith," the letter continues, "suggesting that such beliefs disqualified the nominee from service."
At the hearing, Mr. Sanders took issue with an article written in 2016 by Russell Vought, a devout Christian who was nominated by Mr. Trump to be deputy director of the Office of Management and Budget.
In a blog for The Resurgent, Mr. Vought wrote that Moslems "do not simply have a deficient theology. They do not know God because they have rejected Jesus Christ, his Son, and they stand condemned." 
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