Christopher Hitchens makes a strong case:
I ask you now, does it seem likely that any article of the U.S. Constitution was specially written so that you could not publicly and freely and fearlessly say that you would most decidedly not vote for:*A candidate who followed the "Rev." Jim Jones to a Kool-Aid resort in Guyana (don't forget that this did actually happen)
*A candidate who said that the pope could excommunicate other American candidates with whom he disagreed
*A candidate who said that the above-mentioned pope was the Antichrist
*A candidate who said that L. Ron Hubbard was a visionary
*A candidate who said that Joseph Smith was a visionary
*A candidate who said that any holy book was scripturally inerrant
*A candidate who was a member of Hezbollah or the Muslim Brotherhood or the Nation of Islam
*A candidate who was a supporter or member of Lehi or the Jewish Defense League
*A candidate who was a member of the Aryan Nations, the KKK, or any other white Protestant "Christian Identity" faction
*A candidate who said that the Quran was dictated by the archangel Gabriel
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