🧩 BND Motif Index · M1337
No religious test
Public office is said to be open to people of any faith or none, so a politician who says only believers are fit to serve is answered with the Constitution's ban on religious tests and the reminder that rights come from the law, not from God.
⚖️ Values🗂️ Faith and the sacred
- 1claim filed under it
- 1claim retold online
⚠️ A story people tell, not a claim that it's true.
A motif is the shape of a story as its tellers tell it, named the way a folklorist names a tale type, so the same story told about other people, by the other side or in another year lands in the same place. Some of the claims below are true, many are false. Arguing against a story is often a story of its own, its answer (Voter fraud is answered by Voter suppression, Lawfare by No one is above the law), and we file it there; where no answer has a motif yet, the arguments against a story sit with its tellings.
🪜 Its family
what it rests on, what rests on it, and the motifs that answer it
↔️ answers and mirrors:
- 🧩 Christian nation move and counter: the faith as the nation's, answered by office open to any faith or none
🗣️ In so many words
the words that carry it
💬 the tellers' own words: “Article VI of the Constitution prohibits religious tests for federal office” “Our rights do not come from god. They come from the non-religious Constitution.” “there should be no religious test for elected office”
🧶 Its claims
what's been told in this shape, in our words, by who told it: newest first in each; a claim's dots are the shows it came up on, in their lean's color (point at them for their names)
Retold online 1
claims many people posted in their own words
- 2026-10-29 “Bernie Moreno is attempting to impose a religious test for federal office in violation of Article VI of the Constitution.”
M1337 · first seen 2026-10-30 · what this is · how the index works