“Atheists and anyone else who doesn’t believe in the Christian God are shut out of a vital role in elections. That’s not just bureaucratic oversight. That’s an unconstitutional relic of Christian arrogance.

“There’s no good reason to force people to pledge an oath to God if they want to manage elections. It’s discriminatory and a betrayal of the very Constitution these officials claim to defend. No one should be forcing citizens to invoke a deity as a condition of public service.”

https://open.substack.com/pub/friendlyatheist/p/south-carolina-bars-atheist-from

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South Carolina bars atheist from serving as election worker unless he swears oath to God

The state’s insistence on poll workers saying "so help me God" has turned a civic service into a religious loyalty test

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