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Bernie Freaks When Christian Refuses to Deny Faith for Islam

By Ben Marquis This shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone, but Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders is having trouble understanding the Constitution, and in this particular case its prohibition against a religious test for public office. During a confirmation hearing Wednesday for a Office of Management and Budget nominee, Sanders was clearly trying to impose a religious test on a Trump administration nominee. About halfway through the Senate Budget Committee hearing of nominee Russell Vought, Sanders asked him directly about his Christian faith. His question related to a line taken from a blog post Vought wrote in January of 2016. “You wrote, ‘Muslims… View Article