SHOCKING: 8 States Just Banned Atheists From Doing This Thing According to the U.S. Constitution, religious tests cant be required to hold public office. However, according to recent reports from Fox News, it appears that eight of our states are doing just do that. According to Fox, provisions barring atheists from holding public office are actually written into the constitutions of those states. However, the law is virtually unenforceable. That stems from a 1961 Supreme Court decision, which involved a Maryland man who was appointed as notary public. The justices ruled that the man did not have to declare his belief in God to be eligible for the office, as going so would violate his rights. The case made enforcement of the provisions illegal, but did not require removing them altogether. The rule remains in Arkansas, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee and Texas. Obviously, some atheists are not happy about the laws remaining on the books. According to Dave Muscato, a spokesman for American Atheists, it is only fair and right that the Supreme Court declared the provisions illegal. He went on to call them blatantly discriminatory, immoral, and un-American. What do you think? Are the laws justified? 