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For example, under this section, a person who fails to "acknowledge the existence of a Supreme Being" is not eligible to hold public office in Texas. However, that requirement violates the federal constitution and is therefore unenforceable. See ''Torcaso v. Watkins'', 367 U.S. 488, [https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=17484916405561277413#p495 495] (1961) (holding that similar provision contained in Maryland Constitution violated federal constitution).
For example, under this section, a person who fails to "acknowledge the existence of a Supreme Being" is not eligible to hold public office in Texas. However, that requirement violates the federal constitution and is therefore unenforceable. See ''Torcaso v. Watkins'', 367 U.S. 488, [https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=17484916405561277413#p495 495] (1961) (holding that similar provision contained in Maryland Constitution violated federal constitution).
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* ''Hensley v. State Comm'n on Jud. Conduct'', 692 S.W.3d 184, [https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=4865454919474533790#p208 208] (Tex. 2024) (Blacklock, concurring) ("If the Judicial Conduct Commission is correct—that is, if ''Obergefell'' ushered in an era in which judges who publicly espouse traditional Christian beliefs are unfit for the robe—then yet another deeply rooted constitutional principle . . . . Judge Hensley has been the target of a punitive administrative apparatus with the power, ultimately, to exclude her from holding office. This has happened 'on account of [her] religious sentiments'—not on account of rude or insulting or unprofessional words or actions towards anybody of any sexual orientation.")


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